|  | Tutorial - Modeling a Spas 12 |  |
|  | :Ok time to model! (Yay!) We'll start with the barrels Click the cylinder tool and set it to have 1 stack with 8 slices. Ok, now the way the cylinder will generate itself is it will all ways generate vertically. You will need to 'guestimate' the thickness of the bottom barrel, but if your off don't worry, it can be scaled :) It should look like this: Magic! Now you need to rotate it so that it is the same as that lower barrel. So click rotate and drag you mouse round and down (or up) until the top and bottom of the cylinder are straight, like so: Sorted that out. Now it seems off from the reference picture. So grab yourself the selection tool and set to select vertex. Vertices (p)/Vertex (s) are the dots. Once it set to vertex selection, uncheck 'Ignore Backfaces' Back faces are faces/vertices that behind what you can see. For example, a chair behind a wall. You cant see the chair behind the wall. Then using the selection tool, select the ends accordingly and move them using the move tool to match up with the picture, but keeping the cylinder level. It should look like this: That white line at 3 means that what you've moved is level, if you move then at a 45 degree angle, the line will go at that angle while moving. Great, now for a handy bit of 'know-how'. As you can see the barrel above is almost identical to the one we've put in, so instead of putting in a new cylinder, why not duplicate it? Using the selection tool, set it to group and click the cylinder. Now press Ctrl+D. Its done, but wait, where's our new cylinder???! Don't panic. Select 'move' and move it upward, now you see? Now do the same as the last step and move the vertices into position. It should look like this: Looking at the picture closely you may notice that the top barrel is somewhat thinner. So how do we make it thinner? Well simple, go into the front view and select the scale tool. In the front view drag the cylinder inwards, making it smaller, be careful to keep it round and not elliptical. Now to move on to the next page, I think if you're on 56k you've waited long enough for this page to load.. <<< Back | Next>>> |  |
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