Re: Flat polygons\points ?

Date : Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:14:33 -0500
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Todd Alan Peleg <todd(at)theholdingcell.com>
Subject : Re: Flat polygons\points ?
wouldn't a lattice work for this?

todd

Christopher wrote:
Hello Dan, I'll try shrinkwrap right away see if it does :)

Christopher

Monday, January 2, 2006, 10:01:05 AM, you wrote:

  
Hi Christopher, look up shrinkwrap in the manuals.  This will give you
what you're after.
    

  
DAN
    

  
Christopher wrote:
    

  
Hello Bernard, no no say you have a clay ball now on that clay ball
you want a area on it to be flat so if you lay the clay ball down you
can cause it has a small area that is flat...that is what I mean

Christopher

Sunday, January 1, 2006, 10:22:28 PM, you wrote:

 

      
*All* polygons on primitives are flat, individually.
   

        
 

      
But adjacent polygons do not form a flat surface. Hence the distinction.
   

        

 

      
Cheers
Beranrd
   

        

 

      
On 1/1/06, Gene Crucean <genecrucean(at)gmail.com> wrote:
   

        
If you're gonna get technical then "Polygons" is plural indicating that more
than one poly is selected and on a sphere they (plural) are not flat ;)

Imo, the only confusing part Christopher, is if you mean flaten to an axis?
or flatten to the averaged normal? Either way, the only way is to do what
Mario suggested. Sorry.



On 1/1/06, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:
     

          
I think what we want to know is if you mean *several adjacent*
polygons. Polygons of created primitives are already flat.


Bernard



On 1/1/06, Christopher < walksfar(at)netscape.ca> wrote:
       

            
Hello kim, what I mean is flat take a sphere and you want some
polygons on the sphere to be perfectly flat.

Sunday, January 1, 2006, 5:27:32 AM, you wrote:

         

              
Define flat. Planar as opposed to twiste? Oriented in a particular
direction? Scaled to an axis? Aligned to an axis????
           

Christopher, if you're going to ask questions here, you *have* to
           

                
frame your
     

          
questions better, take more time to explain what you really mean.
           

                
You're
     

          
creating bandwidth and not really getting answers in return for the
           

                
effort.
     

          
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Sent: 01-January-2006 02:45
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Flat polygons\points ?

Anyone know if there is a way that I can have selected
polygons and make them flat.  Instead of tweaking which won't
get it perfectly flat on any X\Y\Z axis?
Example: You have a sphere and some of those polygons you
want flat on that sphere.  Hard edges just makes well the edges hard.

Christopher

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