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nurbs car problems 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. nurbs car problems // New Users 1  |   Order by default Post by Sindy // Jun 27, 2008, 2:50am Sindy Total Posts: 2 Hi Can someone please help me work out why my model is not working properly. I am following the nurbs car tutorial (http://www.caligari.com/Help/Tutorials/Casey_W_Frisbie/index.asp?Cate=HTutorials) and the sides of my car seem to get inverted. Strangley its the front and roof of the car while I'm still working with the nurbs patches (which I also don't seem to have any vertices on - which is one problem) and then when I convert the nurbs patches to polygons the sides of my car seem inverted. (See photos please) On the lack of vertices - I've tries the refine patch button but it on allows me to add rows to the sides not the front and roof. On the invertion - I've worked back through the instructions and it turns out I have the invert edge box ticked when I created the roof but if this is unticked it twists up the surface. I was also wondering in the instructions when it says flip the copy of the side - I use mirror cos there's no flip option to make this work. I've tried all sorts to fix this.I've have done the model from scratch 4 times now and I need help - Please. Thanks Sindy Ps - I'm using Truespace 7.5 Post by hultek43 // Jun 27, 2008, 7:04am hultek43 Total Posts: 234 Firstly the tut was Copyright 2001. Version 7 wasn't out then ;-). The icon he has pictured is available in version 6.6 to mirror the object. As for adding points, you'll have to make sure you convert to a plain patch before trying to refine. Hope that helps. Post by spacekdet // Jun 27, 2008, 7:07am spacekdet Total Posts: 1360 Here are some NURB tools (http://home.mindspring.com/%7Eclintonr/MyTruespace/TSPlug.html) that may help. Post by Sindy // Jun 29, 2008, 2:57am Sindy Total Posts: 2 Thanks for your help hultek43 and spacekdet. Couple of questions :) How do I access "convert NURBS object with construction history to plain patch"? It's not showing next to "convert nurbs patch to polyhedral" where I'd expect it. Do I need to use it at a certain point in the construction or use another tool to access it? Do I just copy the plug-ins into \trueSpace75\tS\tsx to make them work and how do I access the tools? Sorry if these questions are a bit noobish, I'm new to TS and working my way through the tuts. Cheers Sindy Post by TomG // Jun 30, 2008, 4:18am TomG Total Posts: 3397 You drop the plugins to that directory as you say, then you click on the Add Plugin icon (looks like a plug going in to a wall socket). Then you select the tsx you want to load, and an icon for it is added to the toolbar. Clicking the icon activates the plugin (sometimes r clicking activates an options dialog,depends on the plugin and how the author wanted it to work). HTH! Tom Post by clintonman // Jun 30, 2008, 11:47am clintonman Total Posts: 304 and heres the answer to your first question. you need to open the icon finder and the convert to plain patch is in there. i think the icon was misplaced in the last update. Edit: and click the icon again to close the monster icon list

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