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SwarM22
06-15-2009, 10:20 PM
Hey I was wondering if anybody knew of any techniques for wrapping something like a rope or material around something like a post in max? Anything aside from manually extruding sections?

Heres an example of what I am talking about.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/swarm19/Example.jpg
eldee
06-16-2009, 07:06 AM
if you have 2010, you can use whatever the 'graphite modeling tools' version of polydraw is. it just snaps to a surface and you just draw in the polys. if you have 2009 or earlier, there's polyboost (which is what graphite modeling tools are, they just renamed it when they bought it) which has the same thing. I'm sure there's an easy vanilla Max way to do it, but I've always used polyboost for that sort of thing. worst case scenario just edge extrude :P