Hi Mike, thanks for doing the steps and posting the file!

But yeah it looks like these steps must not have been quite 100% exactly the same thing that you did before, because you've got all totally fine and all joined together solids in this result and not the same kind of problem as you had before.

So unfortunately I'm not really any closer to giving you any more information about your previous question about why you ran into that join problem before.

Thank you though for trying to set up a reproducable example - getting reproducable steps so I can see the problem actually unfold through the actions that caused it does greatly help for being able to figure out what's going on and if it's a bug or something in the geometry or whatever...

- Michael

Hi Mike, also previously you were asking about Loft and whether that had something to do with your problem?

But your new steps you show most recently above don't seem to involve Loft at any stage...

- Michael

Maybe I tried it and it didn't work, then did something else...

Yeah, I often get "modeler's regret" when I notice five steps down, that I could have done something better.

I'll often look back at some of my tutorials and realize that I was glad I made them. My inspiration if keen but not so much my memory. ;-)

A vintage version ... :)

I like how you obtained main profile (made two red lines then BLENDED to have a rounded connection )
Leaving other technical discussions,it's logical that rubber seal must be a solid..it's an object,have a tickness,so a solid.
If not happens,you must try to obtain it,searching where are open parts (this is my workflow)

Thanks again Mike

apparently the coconut tree's are growing iron rigid leaves in only 2 distinct shapes now.... We can still party though.....

...now is really a MoI Brand Portable Luau System (i can't imagine a party without coconut trees..).Great!

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Lejan:the vintage one surely meets Mike's flavour !

Lejan... wow!... no, no... let's try this again: WOWWWWWWW!!!! =-D

Now that is awesome. (of course, it is breakfast time at the moment)

A 12-slice Mega-Toaster. Great job with the render, by the way!


(I just noticed the "coal" setting.)



Burr, Yes, but you can't complain about its time-released palm tree action. Who said a portable luau couldn't be more than a glass and a bottle of the good stuff. ;-)

Glad you like it, but you can't really mess a good base model which is fun to play with!

The 'coal' setting finally get's rid of those random happenings of burning your toast
and therefore creates a more convincing illusion of a controlled life... ;)

Cinema 4D, physical renderer and vintage look in PS.

It came out nice!

I especially like the glowing coils, nice touch.

Hi BurrMan,

just in case more shade is needed there is a free tree generator for hot party times... ;)

http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

Lejan - Love the Retro Toaster!

Ed

Hi Lejan,
""""""""""""just in case more shade is needed there is a free tree generator for hot party times... """""""""

Thanks for that link. I always like to fool around with those.... I have a couple that can do a decent job. There's a cool one for Carrara that will do "ivy", so you can set a base up, and it will generate obj growth all over the object. Like Ivy.. The app that rendered that has a tree generator also. but maybe not as robust. I'll have to check out the one you posted. Bryce has a decent one.

I suppose I could spend some time making a few different leaves for 8 different branches and get a good result. I used ScaleArray on a single leaf shape, which doesnt do much for Organic. Might take me a couple days to do it good though...

Probably what I would do is create single leaf (poor little guy, needs a girl), then flow it to 12 or 15 (Something close to double 7) different surface shapes, then use some type of array, like ArrayGem or path, to distrubute the different shapes throughout a stem, then go in and manually rotate/move the leaves to break it up. Then, flow that to a few different surface shapes to generate enough branches to elude detection of repeated shapes. Probably then look for a texture that works and set something different on the stem and leaves. Make my nuts smaller, and add a few...



I was really diggin on your toaster... I'm looking forward to see stuff you do with MoI......