Member themacguy Posted February 24, 2011 Member Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I'm having trouble getting anywhere with anything other than the voxel-room, and render-room.... Anything much more complex than a simple cube just hangs/freezes the program, and I have to force-quit, or even reboot my MacPro to get going again. Still having ongoing problems with the SPHERE primitive, which only work for very very small spheres---larger ones have huge gaps in the polygonal "skin" when the sphere is released from the sphere-primitive-Gizmo.... So... Now working with a simple (?) cube primitive. Creates okay, "Releases" okay... I finally found the "retopo" command in the voxel-tree, by right-clicking on the object in the vox-tree. So... NOW what? Playing around---or I should probably say MESSING around in the paint-room, the few times that anything has even shown up in the paint-room (usually it, and the UV room and the sculpt room are completely BLANK... I get very very SLOPPY results when I try to colour the 6 sides of the cube, in anything like an approximation of "sharp accurate edges"---take well over an HOUR to do this, and it looks HORRIBLE... I am seemingly unable to make any clean, sharp edged selections... Practically impossible to colour each cubeface with a different flat colour. IE: a very straightforward (?) basic "working with a defined selection" sort of task.. So, what is the correct method/workflow, to make and select a defined, sharp-edged selection of the faces of a cube?, Colour each a different colour, And then......??? I'm running out of conceptual language that I UNDERSTAND, at this point---next step, I THINK, is to "peel the skin off" of the coloured cube. to create a "UV Map"....... I'm still not entirely clear just what a UV map is... A separate image for each cube face? I would THINK I should end up with something resembling THIS (see attached JPEG) But I'm not getting anything that looks remotely like this... I can construct this "peeled cube" image in Photoshop in about 3 minutes... Why is it so difficult/impossible to do in 3DC??? Until I get this working, my next desired step, which is to create ACCURATELY bevelled edges, and have them assigned a different material...is still a long way away!... :-/ I guess I'm still at the "playing in the sand-box with my toy blocks" stage of the game---and not even getting THAT right..! ;-}} :-// Please advise! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Shpagin Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 You may use whole polygin painting: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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