Surfaces and objects

[YOHKOH]

Hi there

 

I was wondering if anyone knows a way of getting one object to react to another. For example.

 

I have a curved roof which is made up from a segemnt of a sphere.

I then want to overlay a flat physical grid onto the roof and have it mould itself, and attach/inlay into the surface following the curve. A bit like using cloth modifier to drape a plane over a surface, but with more precision.

 

I can do this using vray displacement no problem, but I would like to actually have a mesh of the resulting object.

 

I'm sure this comes under the remit of nurbs but I was hoping there was a simple way using poly modelling.

 

Thanks

[chow choppe]

will conform compound object do that

not sure though

[YOHKOH]

That worked, thanks.

 

However if anyone could direct me toward a learning resource for creating smart mathematical geometry in max i would be very grateful.

 

The kind of thing I want to do is be able to change number in a spread sheet which will then alter the geometry on screen and vice versa.