how to wrap a spline around an object?

[jedisalf]

Im posting on the OFF TOPIC section, cuz its a 3d MAX question, not vray one.

Im not that experinced in modelling as much of you in here, and Ive only modelled buildings, now im gonna model my first chair for a scene, this will be only 2 objects, the structure and the fabric, the structure are tubes, im making them simple splines and check them "renderable", but for the fabric, im having problems, i was thinking into spline modeling the fabric, and then extrude it, but i cant get the spline to wrap around the tubular structure, i mean, doing it vertex by vertex is really hard, must be an easy way.

Any tips?

[zuliban]

can u post your current work on it and/or reference?

[jedisalf]

thanks for helping me out ZULIBAN.

The model its on the office, so i guess ill post the screenshot on monday, althought im gonna try to reproduce it at home, if i do that illtry to post it tomorrow.

Anyways, heres the chair i wanna do, is the MALLORCA model, by AMAT-3


I dont want it as detailed as the real thing, because is gonna be used to fill an outdoor scene, i need some tables an this chair, so i was thinking in modelling only the stucture tubes (renderable splines), and just a plane with a bump map or displacement for the wicker, but to create a plane, and then move around its vertexes, would be too hard, so i thought about creating a spline on the side view, around the tubes, and then extrude it, but its also hard.

[Da_elf]

maybe you can just use simcloth

[zuliban]

make tubes whit splines then ediatable poly take the parts u want then use shit and move to make another objets then erase and weld in the middle and oyu will have a 100% perfect chair

[maxer]

maybe this tool helps?(klick on free plugins)
http://www.itoosoft.com/english/frameset.html

[jedisalf]

make tubes whit splines then ediatable poly take the parts u want then use shit and move to make another objets then erase and weld in the middle and oyu will have a 100% perfect chair

errrr......thanks , zuliban...but, im not sure if I would like to use "shit" on it.

hehehe....
thanks a lot guys, will see how it goes.

MAXER, thanks for teh tip, gonna play around with that pluggin after I do it modelling in MAX, so i can learn it.

[Morzog]

In case you did'nt understand zuliban meant'shift'. Try shift + scale this will give you a new (cloned) set of polys to work with.

[jujubee]

While actual geometry would be nice and it would be a cool lesson in modelling, I don't think it's at all practical for an outdoor scene. Why reinvent the wheel. Just use textures (like the reeds posted in the image gallery) and vray displacement.

[jujubee]

It's not perfect but I wasn't going to spend too much time on it. No displacement as I read later that you were going to use several of them in a scene outdoors. I gather that this would work fine but you may want to tweak some settings of course. PM me and I'll send it to you:

[jedisalf]

thats great!......

mine sucks

Im gonna post the final images of the restaurant i did where i used those chairs.

btw, i see some glow in your render, is that post work?

[jujubee]

Well, modelling takes time and you get better with it. The better you get the more fun it seems to become.

Yes you're right about the slight glow - was just messing around because the scene was a little too simple for my tastes...