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- fusionpixel
How do you add 4 points together from 2 different items?
Lets say I have 2 squares and I want one of the sides of Square 1 join to another side of square 2
In another words kinda of having a rectangle but divided in 3. but it has to be joined by one of its sides rather than creating a rectangle and dividing it in 3.
- fusionpixel0
to get a better idea take a look at the animation below:
wait for about 10 seconds, the guy is going to create a square in the middle and then join the edges with the circle. I want to do that.
I have been trying to do this for about a month now hahaha!!!
help!
- cubanhaze0
In Lightwave Modeler selet the two points you want to join (they have to be close enough), go to the "Detail" tab and hit Weld.
- fusionpixel0
Cool!
I tried that technique earlier, but it doesnt work as he does in the tutorial. it deletes the original point instead of welding them together, does that makes sense?
- fusionpixel0
its more like what Construct>Bridge does to 2 points.
- fusionpixel0
aaaaaaah i figured it out thanks to the follwoing tutorial:
http://www.newtek.com/products/l…
instead of weld it is Create/Make Poligon.
Thanks all for your help
- sajets_v20
I was just about to post, that there should be (in every decent 3d app there is) create polygon function somewhere.
But from what you decribed earlier, i was thinking about welding also, not bridgeing the cap.
In Max there is a way of connecting objects together without having to create 4 polys, and i think Lightwave has it also. But as LW is so un-logical program i bet it's somewhere in your face but still so well hidden.
- fusionpixel0
yeah i know, if you look at the GIF from earlier:
http://67.15.36.49/team/t utorials/gerardo_drop/002 .gif
the guy who seems to be using a lot of shorcuts, that to us the NB we get stuck.
Im stuck using the endomorph now.
sigh....
- fusionpixel0
another question. how Do I align all my points to the X axis?
like I want them all to aling perfectly together, I have been aligning them manually but they still off by a little bit.
TIA
- fusionpixel0
figured it out, it is Detail/Set Value
hummm
A little hard to figure out if you ask me
hahaha
- sajets_v20
Like i said LW is very un-logical program. I had to use it in Art School but dropped it, insted went with Max, which imo is very logical.
But to be fair i don't know how to align vertices (points) to certain axis. At least not now without program open. :)
- fusionpixel0
yeah, i took Lightwave and 3DMax in school, but I havent used them for a while.