Hello,
I want to model an RC-car body wich is one smooth plastic shape. Since i

an edditor. Does someone know what tools are available to make things like
this? It's not realy 3D objects, it's like modelling a plane with a certain
shape.
Greetz 2 ya all! Love POV!

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"Lenx" <lenx_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I want to model an RC-car body wich is one smooth plastic shape. Since i

> an edditor. Does someone know what tools are available to make things like
> this? It's not realy 3D objects, it's like modelling a plane with a certain
> shape.
> Greetz 2 ya all! Love POV!
>

Hmm, hard to imagine a 2-d shape that couldn't be modelled with some basic CSG,
plus, maybe, some blobs - can you point to a reference pic?

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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> "Lenx" <lenx_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:web.3df0a9f8fc345827293f3c960@news.povray.org...
> > I want to model an RC-car body wich is one smooth plastic shape. Since i

with
> > an edditor. Does someone know what tools are available to make things
like
> > this? It's not realy 3D objects, it's like modelling a plane with a
certain
> > shape.
>
> Hmm, hard to imagine a 2-d shape that couldn't be modelled with some basic
CSG,
> plus, maybe, some blobs - can you point to a reference pic?

I think he just wants to do a car shell, like those used in what is called
Funny Car drag races. The plastic shell of a radio-controlled car instead.
Extruding vertexes out of a rectangle would probably do okay, hamapatch then
might be perfect. You'd want a reasonable density of grid points (vertexes)
to get the resolution needed. Unfortunately I don't use hamapatch enough to
instruct on this.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ddombrow/hamapatch/

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hughes, b. wrote:
>"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
>news:3df0d353[at]news.povray.org...
>> "Lenx" <lenx_[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:web.3df0a9f8fc345827293f3c960[at]news.povray.org...
>> > I want to model an RC-car body wich is one smooth plastic shape. Since i

>with
>> > an edditor. Does someone know what tools are available to make things
>like
>> > this? It's not realy 3D objects, it's like modelling a plane with a
>certain
>> > shape.
>>
>> Hmm, hard to imagine a 2-d shape that couldn't be modelled with some basic
>CSG,
>> plus, maybe, some blobs - can you point to a reference pic?
>
>I think he just wants to do a car shell, like those used in what is called
>Funny Car drag races. The plastic shell of a radio-controlled car instead.
>Extruding vertexes out of a rectangle would probably do okay, hamapatch then
>might be perfect. You'd want a reasonable density of grid points (vertexes)
>to get the resolution needed. Unfortunately I don't use hamapatch enough to
>instruct on this.
>
>http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ddombrow/hamapatch/
>




yes, what i want to make is a car shell. you can see some here:
http://www.rcxotic.com/pkg-how/000017/index.shtml
i thought of making it with bicubic patch object, but it's impossible to
find out all the coordinates. it's for that i want an edditor.
I'll take a look at hamapatch. thx!

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hughes, b. wrote:
>"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
>news:3df0d353[at]news.povray.org...
>> "Lenx" <lenx_[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:web.3df0a9f8fc345827293f3c960[at]news.povray.org...
>> > I want to model an RC-car body wich is one smooth plastic shape. Since i

>with
>> > an edditor. Does someone know what tools are available to make things
>like
>> > this? It's not realy 3D objects, it's like modelling a plane with a
>certain
>> > shape.
>>
>> Hmm, hard to imagine a 2-d shape that couldn't be modelled with some basic
>CSG,
>> plus, maybe, some blobs - can you point to a reference pic?
>
>I think he just wants to do a car shell, like those used in what is called
>Funny Car drag races. The plastic shell of a radio-controlled car instead.
>Extruding vertexes out of a rectangle would probably do okay, hamapatch then
>might be perfect. You'd want a reasonable density of grid points (vertexes)
>to get the resolution needed. Unfortunately I don't use hamapatch enough to
>instruct on this.
>
>http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ddombrow/hamapatch/
>



thx! hamapatch is ok. i can model planes and export them to bicubic patch
objects. however, i don't like graphical edditors. that's one reason why i
choose POV :-)
but i think i have no choise here...

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