[Exercises 9: Flower Power]

George and son,

 

Not sure what your asking but from what I understand if you press the 9 key you will enter shaded mode and the splines an control points will dissapear and the material will show on the leaf you created.

 

 

Bob,

 

Thanks for addressing the question. Yes, we do know about putting the rendering view into shaded mode. However, when we do that we only see the shaded stem but the wire frame and control points of the leaf just disappear. It is as if we didn't "close" the leaf up properly so that it would be shaded. Does that make any sense? We played around some more tonight and think we understand it better. We weren't properly connecting all the control points to make a single leaf. I guess it wouldn't shade the portions together until they were all joined as one. Thanks for the help.

 

George and Son

[Exercises 9: Flower Power]

Hello AM users. My 11-year old son and I have both discovered Animation Master and are thrilled with the things we've been able to do. However, we've tried the Flower Power Exercise and realized that there are still some basics of modeling that we haven't learned yet. We found that using the lathe to create the stem automatically creates a surface that can be shaded. However, when we create a flat leaf, rename the group and attempt to put a color on the surface, we still get nothing but a wire frame of the leaf. Is there some finishing step that we need to make in order to create a paintable surface for the leaf. The same problem happened with the petals.

 

At this time, I am not permitted to upload the model we created with the problem.

 

Thanks for the help,

George