Modeling and Animation

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Modeling and Animation

• Lecture 4

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Adding Skin to a System of Bones

• Load the bones file.
• Create a box.
• Put several slices through the box
• Put a slice modifier on the box.
• Go to Subobject mode.
• Rotate the slice gizmos axis.
• Move the slice gizmo the the slice location.
• Click right on the box and select Collapse
  Stack.

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Editing Mesh Vertices

• Select the box.
• Go into Subobject mode.
• Press the vertex select button.
• Select and move vertices.

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Extruding Mesh Faces

• Select the box.
• Go into Subobject mode.
• Press the polygon select button.
• Increase the Extrude Spinner value.

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Deleting Mesh Faces along the Bodys Plane of
Symmetry

• Select the box.
• Go into Subobject mode.
• Press the polygon select button.
• Press the Delete button.

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Mirroring

• Select the box.
• Use the Mirror menu item under Tools on the
  top level Max menu.
• Choose Instance to make the mirror image change
  with future changes to the original.
• Set the offset to move the mirror image into the
  right position.

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Unioning

• Select the box.
• Select Compounds and Boolean Compound Object
  on the Tab Panel.
• Press Pick Operand B on the Command Panel.
• Press the Union and Move buttons.
• Click right on the unioned object and select
  Convert to Editable Mesh.

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Smoothing the Mesh

• Select the box.
• Put a MeshSmooth modifier on the box.
• Select NURMS smoothing.
• Set the number of iterations to two or three.

You should use the skin modifier to attach the
bones to the skin before applying the smoothing
modifier. This way, the bones will move the mesh
cage, not the smoothed surface.
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