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Bird with wings About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Bird with wings // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by 8-bit // Nov 20, 2006, 12:31pm 8-bit Total Posts: 84 I'd like to try and produce a model of a bird with its wings at rest at its side, how can I go about this? I know I could try and produce a solid mesh with bumps at either side to suggest wings but I'd rather go one step further and have the wings actually extrude from the body and hang down. Is it possible? Post by GraySho // Nov 20, 2006, 12:42pm GraySho Total Posts: 695 Anything is possible. The extrude function in tS is called "sweep". Basically it's just a question of knowing how to use the modeling tools and your imagination. Basically you just have to extrude the right polygons and drag them into their position. Post by splinters // Nov 20, 2006, 1:12pm splinters Total Posts: 4148 Very rough attempt to try and help you. 1st shot shows basic mesh with wing swept from a polygon face. 2nd shot shows SDS mesh. If you used mirror modeller it would also make life easier. Post by splinters // Nov 20, 2006, 1:16pm splinters Total Posts: 4148 This way you can select just the wings and move them to get the right pose. Post by 8-bit // Nov 21, 2006, 1:43am 8-bit Total Posts: 84 Thats great Splinters, just what I was trying to achieve. Many thanks. :) I was personally going down the wrong route and using MetaBalls and I tried Sphere primatives. I found the meshes were a little complex to pull around. Post by GraySho // Nov 21, 2006, 1:49am GraySho Total Posts: 695 Thats great Splinters, just what I was trying to achieve. Many thanks. :) I was personally going down the wrong route and using MetaBalls and I tried Sphere primatives. I found the meshes were a little complex to pull around. That's why Subdivision Surface modeling is so popular. Your control mesh can be very low on poly's and you can modify it very easy.

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