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    How to make this (loft section along a helix)

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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
      last edited by

      Here's another.


      Curvishear.gif

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      • L Offline
        L i am
        last edited by

        Thanks Box, I will try that as I see some issues including Mapping and faceting due to the amount of segments I used. Couls somebody please exlain how to control the amount of line segments in curvmaker?
        Also is there a plugin so I can fix the mapping?

        Cheers

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        • BoxB Offline
          Box
          last edited by

          Have a look at Fredo's Thrupaint.

          https://i.imgur.com/xqmHv48.gif

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          • L Offline
            L i am
            last edited by

            Thanks Box, I will do that. I ran the model through a Ray trace engine as opposed to the prior real time renderer. I was pleasently suprised at the outcome. With a bit of tweeking it will look cool if I have some luck with True paint. I bow to plugin developers πŸ˜‰

            Ray trace.jpg

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            • L Offline
              L i am
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              @box said:

              Have a look at Fredo's Thrupaint.

              https://i.imgur.com/xqmHv48.gif

              I just did a search in Sketchucation for "Thrupaint" ..............nothing, any ideas as to why?

              Cheers

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              • BoxB Offline
                Box
                last edited by

                It's part of Fredo Tools.

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                • GD3DesignG Offline
                  GD3Design
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                  @l i am said:

                  I just did a search in Sketchucation for "Thrupaint" ..............nothing, any ideas as to why?

                  Cheers[/quote]

                  It is actually found in a suite of Fredo's plugins called, 'FredoTools'. https://sketchucation.com/plugin/907-fredotools

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                  • L Offline
                    L i am
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                    @gd3design said:

                    @l i am said:

                    I just did a search in Sketchucation for "Thrupaint" ..............nothing, any ideas as to why?

                    Cheers

                    It is actually found in a suite of Fredo's plugins called, 'FredoTools'. https://sketchucation.com/plugin/907-fredotools[/quote]

                    Thanks GD3 and box. Can you or anyone please suggest another plugin other than Fredo? I am sure its good but I downloaded 4 plugins today without any brainwork or problems. I would just like a plugin that is simple and easy to instal.

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                    • GD3DesignG Offline
                      GD3Design
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                      I honestly can't recommend any other plugin besides ThruPaint for this job, it is indispensable....I use it daily. Although, I remember ThomThom had a UV plugin that could get you there, but it wasn't as intuitive and always seemed a bit difficult to use for me. Also, Whaat has a UV plugin that can apply some different projection UV mapping that could possibly work here. I still prefer ThruPaint, it gives you much more power and control over your final product. But no matter how tired you are, you are still going to have to install a plugin and learn it to get this task finished.....so might as well use the best one. (ThruPaint) πŸ˜„

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                      • L Offline
                        L i am
                        last edited by

                        Thanks GD3, after contacting support @ Raylectron (Render engine) I was told to right click on the texture box and click on "recreate UV map" worked perfectly πŸ‘

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                          L i am
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                          I was just experimenting and kind of liked the render.

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