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LedouxM · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: Problems drawing a cylinders.

I have a small problem drawing cylinders in DeleD. Every time I want to make a cylinder I get a cube or a triangle something like that. I gees it is because my properties aren’t filled in the right way. What properties do I give it so I get a proper cylinder?
My excuses for my bad English.

santutatu · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

You should set the sides number correctly Wink

, I use (and recommend) 16 sides Wink

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Andreas233223 · Member Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

Ithink 16 is okay for big clyinders, but for little details 12 and sometimes 8 is enough.
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Starnick · DeleD PRO user Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 611

One possibility may be that you have snap on, so when you lay down a new cylinder it snaps to a rectangle shape.

santutatu · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:03 am Post subject:

LedouxM · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:40 am Post subject:

Problem solved using more sides. I always thought you needed to use 1 side for a cylinder both then he automatically jumpt to 3. Very Happy

now I use 12 or 16 sides and it works fine. Why have I never thought of that? tyvm all.

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Tincho · Member Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 357 Location: ARGENTINA

I can't see what you can get with a one-sided cylinder Wink

LedouxM · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

Well if you look at a cylinder I only haze a top a bottom and a body. There are no corners on a cylinders body so that’s why I thought 1 side. The body never stops. Hope you understand what I am trying to tell Razz

I am really doing my best to speak proper English.

trucker2000 · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject:

You speak quite clearly.
The problem is...in modeling, cylendars have sides. A round one will have approx. 32 sides, but that get's to be a nightmare to texture unless you are good with UV maps or sphere mapping.
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LedouxM · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

O that is a tip I can definitely use ty. I will need to read the tutorial on how to texture things again because I am really bad in it. Now I use 8 or 12 sides like Andreas233223 told me. For now 12 looks.

Tincho · Member Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 357 Location: ARGENTINA

LedouxM · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

No sides, never had any problems whit the segments.