Pitcher Posted September 18, 2015 Posted September 18, 2015 I have been trying to make a chianti bottle. For whatever reason the 4 point patches are not filling in. I have tried rendering, but the patches don't fill in there either. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any ideas? A picture of the bottle as it exists now follows: Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 18, 2015 Hash Fellow Posted September 18, 2015 If they are still empty when it renders then it isn't just a problem of Show Backfaces OFF (shift-6) You're sure all the latitude and longitude lines are attached together, I suppose. If you want to PM it to me I'll take a look at it. Quote
Pitcher Posted September 18, 2015 Author Posted September 18, 2015 Thanks, robcat2075! I send it right away. One other thing I was wondering about is if it is possible to have a color that is transparent. When I color a surface and make it transparent, it always goes to some shade of gray. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 18, 2015 Hash Fellow Posted September 18, 2015 Heres' my look at it... clip3844JohnsBottle.mov Quote
Pitcher Posted September 18, 2015 Author Posted September 18, 2015 Thanks. That was great! I did not know about the show back faces off button. I apparently hit F6 accidentally and did not know what happened. Also, I have been having difficulty with rendering transparent bottles in general and switched my settings for rendering to shaded from final. Basically, I don't know a lot about the settings, and I use the same settings for quite a while once they work. When I change something accidentally, it always mystifies me. I really did not make this bottle with the lathe. I started with a circle and extruded the bottle and then shaped it by hand somewhat before I then extruded the basket from the bottom of the bottle. Then, when I had all the problems with the patches that would not show up, I started removing the layers underneath to see if they were causing the problem somehow (but I did not get all of the excess splines). Next time, I probably try to use the lathe. You are so much more scientific and knowledgeable about all of this than I am. I just poke around using trial and error and a few things I learned out of the book that came with the program or David Rogers's book or something that I learned in the Forum. Now, this is one more set of things I can look back on and try when this happens again. Eventually, there will be a collection of these called "The Pitcher Screw-ups" so that people who make my mistakes (if there are any such people) can find these write-ups with the solutions you and others provide. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 18, 2015 Hash Fellow Posted September 18, 2015 I'm glad you're asking questions instead of leaving disappointed! Come back if there's more trouble. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 19, 2015 Hash Fellow Posted September 19, 2015 ... I did not know about the show back faces off button. I apparently hit F6 accidentally ... Note that it is Shift-6 that toggles Show Backfaces, not F6 Quote
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