"skin" "u/loft"... I need some help here...

[NoisyMonk]

I'm trying to learn how to use Nurbs and whatnot, and I've been reading over a few tutorials, but they don't seem to be to detailed when it comes to actually "skinning" or "lofting" the curves... for the sake of simplicity, I just did the profile of the head and cloned/rotated them to make the head... In the pic, you can see what I have... but I'm lost on what to do next. How do I get them all attached...? I’m not even sure if I got to this point correctly… I used the “line” object… any help would be appreciated.
Thx. Noisymonk

 

[Stormy]

bleh i really dont like Nurbs... i tryed useing them but failed :/

if you got max 5 there are a cople of tutorials init tell you how to do it mayb you can have a look at that... if not you mind find some tut on the sticky at the top

 

[NoisyMonk]

I've never really been a fan of Nurbs either... until now. They seem to work fairly well, and up until my dilemma, its been pretty easy to do. I checked through some of those tutorials... but I couldn't seem to find anything... T.T

 

[tim8604]

Er, not sure how max works, but if you would do something like that in lightwave, you would have to make a few more of those profiles. Then connect the points making 4 point polygons up and down each spline, then alter these to create a 'face' shape. I think its easier to do it the way where you start with the eye shape, and go from there though..

 

[NoisyMonk]

yeah, thats how I made most of my stuff in the past... but it is very long and tedious... so I thought I'd try out nurbs which are supposed to be faster...

 

[tim8604]

Try these out... I don't know anything about max, but hopefully these will help you. Their screen caps looked similiar to yours .

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutorials/max/modelface/modelface.asp
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/polevoy_george/nurms/index.html

good luck, and let me know if those are what you are looking for.

 

[NoisyMonk]

Those are similar to the way you suggested.. but I’m looking for something like this
http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutorials/max/nurbs/nurbs.asp

I used that tut and got lost where it says… “After the splines are created, attach them all. Then collapse them to a point surface. It is imortant to collapse to a point surface because right now we don't want to deal with a bunch of cv points. Now click on ULOFT in the surface creation panel. Starting with the profile spline create a u-loft surface between the splines.”

I also used this (http://www.3drender.com/jbirn/ea/HeadModel.html )and got lost where it says… “When you have gone 180-degrees from the front profile, "skin" or "loft" together all of the spline curves, to form half of the head.”

 

[tim8604]

Ah, sorry man....no clue then :-/

maybe someone who uses max can help ya out

 

[NoisyMonk]

Thx for your help anyways!

 

[NoisyMonk]

common.. someone has to know how to connect these... how to use loft or skin... anybody?

maybe something simpler... like this...

 

[NoisyMonk]

OMG. finally, I figured it out! And No Thanks To You Lazy Bums! lol, just kiddin' :cheese:

 

[NoisyMonk]

Well, I've been messing around with my new found skill, and I've been making a dagger... so for I have the blade done.. its 850 polys and here is a pic. What do you think? crap? decent? remember, this is one of my first models... I have alittle experience.

 

[tim8604]

For the amount of polygons, it really doesn't have much to it. Other than being pretty high in polygon count, i'd say that is pretty good for a first model. Just work on optimizing your polys and keep up the good work .

 

[NoisyMonk]

yeah, it is alot of polys... usually I'd have it alot less, but I was just testing out nurbs and lofting... here is a pic of the polys...