> Did you try mergin the end of the tail into one single point? > that should smooth things out.
Really ? OK , I'll try it . > I mostly do organic modelling, and so far I have never > touched any weight or sharpness controls. Just the number > of faces determines where the detail goes.. >Just rounded, 4-sided polygons. That should do the trick. Most important here >is the edgeflow, which is why I never start with a cube.. a cube just locks me into adding points where I need detail, without first using all points I have available to me. At the moment I build a model from one polygon on, and keep adding additional ones, connecting, moving, scaling.. I think it's fun. :) Also, this approach lets me work with a skin, rather than a solid object. It only becomes solid at the very end when I stitch all the skins together. Yes , I like the sound of the process . >I get most of my modelling references from www.cgtalk.com, either in the >archive or by looking at their wip section. Inspiring stuff, and usually universally usable. Well , this sounds very interesting . You should do a tute your- self using this method and RS . I really thibk you could advance RS3D SDS modeling just by sharing a simple example , step by step, just as you say above . Seriously . (NURBS modeling curve by curve) >Now that's something I can't do to safe my life.. :) I always have the >problems that nurbs curves have to run through the whole object somehow.. you can't just add a local curve for some added detail without fixing things all over the place or adding detail where you don't need/want it. But then again, I may simply not get it.. It also can be hell , but I start small , add one curve or ex- trusion at a time , do a surface-to-curves , add a few curves, do a curves-to-surfaces ... if it's screwed up , backtrack to the bad curve and troubleshoot . Slow but sure . > If you still want to model that snake, if you put up a little > sketch I wouldn't mind showing you the first > steps of how to poly-by-poly model it.. got some spare time on my hands.. :) I couldn't draw a stickman to save my life ! Anyway , I didn't have anything particular in mind , just a serpent creature . The thing was , I wanted to play with the model and see what I could come up with and then see where it took me ...(straight to the strip club) Hey , if you would be willing to create a boa constrictor type of snake in even a semi-tutorial way using your SDS poly method , that would be awesome ! Or maybe a rattle snake with those fangs and tail rattle would be a good challenging example ? > Have a great day, > Daniel You too , thanks ! studio www.niagara.com/~studio www.studiodynamics.net
