Nurbs Canopy

[portisgreg]

Hi! Can anyone give me an idea of how to create this canopy in 3dsmax please? I assume its using Nurbs but i'm open to any other suggestions.

 

Thanks

 

Greg

[notamondayfan]

personally my way would be to avoid nurbs.

 

i would-

-draw plane in top view

-edit poly, move verts to shape (still in top view)

-keep your polys 4 sided

-tesselate

-use ffd's to manipulate the height of the corners.

-shell modifier

-done

[Claudio Branch]

 

Can anyone give me an idea of how to create this canopy in 3dsmax please?

 

 

Take a look at a later post in this forum titled "help im stuck"...basically the same problem you are having is discussed there with a couple of different approaches you can try out.

[Astuti]

Another one... cloth modifier... (It's in spanish )

 

http://www.foro3d.com/f24/como-se-puede-hacer-un-paraboloide-58037.html

 

There is a video tutorial in the last page of the post.

[gordo3di]

personally my way would be to avoid nurbs.

 

i would-

-draw plane in top view

-edit poly, move verts to shape (still in top view)

-keep your polys 4 sided

-tesselate

-use ffd's to manipulate the height of the corners.

-shell modifier

-done

 

I did a similar thing by sub dividing a plane and using edit poly with soft selection on.. The ffd modifier is nice though since you can keep the original geometry but with sofft selections you can play with the falloff in interesting ways. Avoid nurbs and cloth to save you a headache IMHO

 

Made this years ago using that technique

http://www.3digraphics.com/gallery/uploads/design_final(4).jpg

[whitetr]

Editable Patch...pretty easy to work with.