Making Simple Shapes

[elliotclem1]

Hi again,

 

I need help making simple shapes e.g a box.

 

At the moment i have to use the pre made ones.

 

Someone please help me.

 

I make a simple box shape by extruding but only a few sides are shaded the rest are see though. How can i go about this?

[Dhar]

Choose your box, right click and choose "Flip Normals".

 

That should do it

[oakchas]

If your original square is all one spline, it does not form a patch.

 

make 3 sides of your square and then add the fourth side. By pressing 9 on the numbers above the letters on your keyboard (NOT THE NUMBER PAD on the right) you will be in shaded mode and you should see a square patch. Then extrude that.

 

8 above the letter keys puts you back in wireframe mode.

0 above " " " " " in shaded wireframe.

[phatso]

There's an advantage to using the primitives supplied, tho. If you just make a box with sharp edges, they will render that way - which isn't natural. Real edges are rounded. It takes a lot more work to make primitives with rounded edges, but wonder of wonders, the ones in the library already have them.

[elliotclem1]

That flip normals doesn't work this is my box:

 

[steve392]

You could read through these tuts ,they are very useful

http://www.alienlogo.com/tincan/

[oakchas]

I repeat:

 

If your original square is all one spline, it does not form a patch.

make 3 sides of your square and then add the fourth side. By pressing 9 on the numbers above the letters on your keyboard (NOT THE NUMBER PAD on the right) you will be in shaded mode and you should see a square patch. Then extrude that.

 

8 above the letter keys puts you back in wireframe mode.

0 above " " " " " in shaded wireframe.

 

Where are those Qvids?

 

Here they are:

go to the bottom left of the page and click on the cube...

[elliotclem1]

Thank you,

 

I didn't understand before.

 

Good old video tutorials.

 

Elliot