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Deforming primitives

My 3D SpinMy 3D Spin Posts: 608
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Is there anyway of manipulating Primitives to form a shape? Like say i would like 
to make a lake as a liquid plane and i dont want the edges to be so straight or round.

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited September 2018

    You can use the scale function in the parameter tab to turn a cube into a thick plane, if that is what you mean?

    Other than that, you could use deformers, or simply take the primitive to Hexagon, Blender or another program that has modelling capacity.

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  • l_stowel_stowe Posts: 165

    Perhaps this video tutorial will help

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,070
    edited September 2018

    You can also use the "cutout opacity" function to give your plane a different shape.

    I'm sure there are some clever resources out there... but in short:

    - Apply the IRAY uber shader to a square plane. The "cutout opacity" setting becomes available under "surfaces".

    - Create (in Photoshop, or whatever) a square image in which the intended shape for the lake is white, and the negative space around it is black.

    - Load said image as the cutout opacity map. Only what's white on the image will remain visible of the plane. All the black parts disappear.

    Post edited by Hylas on
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