Hi Aaron,

> This is quite close to what I have.

So maybe the area where your surface is different is more in this area here, possibly:


But yeah definitely a change in the overall surface shape will produce somewhat different projected results.

- Michael

Thank you Michael.

Network definitely gave me a closer shape.



I have noticed that when I move the curves around it significantly changes the projection too. I haven't quite got this bit down yet, but it's getting there.

I just wanted to follow this up by saying I got it working in the end ;)




The problem was the second most curve from the top. After realising I could drag this around (and have the surface/projection update), I figured out that it was too far towards the top line, and was creating too much of a slope as a result (this was painfully obvious now that I see it).

Thank you again for your help Michael.

Sorry to bug everyone again.

I was going strong until about 4:15.

What I had been doing up until that point was moving control points around on the lofted curves. This was updating the surface so that my projections matched up nicely.

Then I tried to add another projection + trim and this happened (see attached image).

As you can see there is some weird artifacts being generated, and I'm not getting the trim as desired. I'm pretty sure this is due to me pulling the control curves in ways I wasn't supposed to. However, I can see BLYESS doing this as well (although not nearly as much). I also went back to using a loft with loose, as this seemed to be the option tat was used for the tutorial (see around 2:21).

Sorry to impose like this, but could someone take a look an recommend what I need to do (even if it's another tutorial to improve my skills)?

Hi Aaron,

> Then I tried to add another projection + trim and this happened

That's usually a sign that the trimming curve is not quite intersecting the edge of the surface you're trying to trim.

Zoom up to this area shown in the picture.


You can see the trimming curve is not quite there.


Make that end a bit longer so it intersects the edge of the surface and it should trim fine.
Another thing, if you're projecting those trimming curves along one of the x,y or z axis you can just
do a trim straight up, it's not necessary to project the curves onto the surface then trim.

Cheers

Yup, like Danny says if a curve does not extend all the way to the edge of the surface it will cause that kind of problem.

Basically it ends up kind of cutting a kind of infinitely thin slot in the surface instead of actually dividing the surface into 2 separate pieces.

Then the display mesher does not really expect to deal with edges arranged in collapsed slots like that and that causes those display artifacts.

- Michael

Bloody hell - I can't believe it was that simple!

Thank you again Danny and Michael.

I am not able to download the videos
please help me!

Who ever needs these videos by lyse, I've uploaded them on Skydrive and you can download the zip file from here

Cheers
~Danny~

thanks DannyT but I'm not getting this link Too I do not work

Try this one:

http://d24f9a.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pPvkSZPinUb23BivCTOhgQq0f4DZBmmryd3DWbUY5t4WAyd7i0hiHZTlg4kqg1swIOHwpScd4gegrQ_-mZU6hlg/MoI_Ferrari_599_GTB_By_lyes.zip?download&psid=1

BurrMan works great. thanks!



lyes = I hope it continues creating videos tutoriai I really want to get familiar
MoI to create a curtain was easier than trying to sketchup :-)

Thanks Burr, link fixed.

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Hi !

This video link not work ! please upload this again.

/ urban

Hi urban,

You can find it on my Skydrive https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=30CFFDFA97399495&id=30CFFDFA97399495!118

Cheers

Thanks Danny for this Upload !

/ urban

Allo,

That also proves that MoI is a very good software to draw all that we want.

PS: But, could we limit the width of the images that you import in this place?
Same on a high res. 19' screen is not confortable to look at this too big images.

I vote for a 680 pixels width max.; that will be enough to see all the details, no?

Hello,

Big thank you !!