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cg-peja
02-10-2010, 08:44 PM
hello,
can someone explain me what happened in this tutorial and how to do it in modo :)
http://vimeo.com/2936604

its really short and easy, its just that im a beginner and can't figure it

edit: think i didn't specify it good enough. im talking about rotating those polygons and making them all horizontal
pd
02-11-2010, 09:24 PM
Interesting technique. Can be done in Modo as well:

http://www.optisch-edel.de/junk/steps.gif
cg-peja
02-11-2010, 09:42 PM
that is one hell of reply :)
thanks man

i didn't figure that tiny bevel out...

thanks again :)
pd
02-11-2010, 11:52 PM
Your welcome, it was instructional for me as well. I haven't realized one can define the action center separate from the action axis before.

The tiny edge bevel(or chamfer in max) is important, because without those in between polygons the local action center wouldn't work on the individual steps, but rather on the entire polygon group. (Also, there wouldn't be enough geometry to start with of course.)

As I said, interesting technique, so thanks for the video link :)
cg-peja
02-12-2010, 06:46 AM
yeah, yeah, now that you showed me how its done, everything makes perfect sense :)
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