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GEVL

04-20-2003, 12:27 AM

Hi, i have a problem with the structure manager, i am working on the chevy tutorial from 7th chamber and i'm trying to make the backside chrome strip. I have made a linear spline for it and projected it on the backside of the car. But if i copy the points of this spline in the Structure Manager to an empty polygon object, the points are not placed in the same place as the original spline, they are moved a long away along the X-axis. The coordinate manager says that the points are in exactly the same place as the original points.
Why is this happening?, i have made the frontside chrome strip in exactly the same way, and the points showed up in exactly the same location as the original spline. I am using version 8.1

Srek

04-20-2003, 08:39 AM

Hi,
the structure manager will give you local coordinates, so you have to make sure that both polygon/spline objects have the same global coordinates. Also make sure that both objects are not object scaled (all axis set to a scale of 1).
Hope this helps
Srek

GEVL

04-20-2003, 09:24 AM

Thank you Srek, that was very helpful

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