kiwi

When you make your cube editable bud try aligning normals and optimizing first then see if the same thing happens

Bacardi

Well, indeed, optimising helps. But great helper bunny Mme Sadie explained what happened, as nothing is abnormal. It was me not going back to the initial state.

When you select a face, Extend it ( extrude to zero)and drag it to the extrude you want, and then go back, you have to go back three steps, not one! One step, like I did, sets it back to extrude zero, BUT THE POLY IS DOUBLED. So when I then select using PolyLoop (or the method Gfx@rt explained higher in this thread) the hidded ploys are also selected and will be extruded otr moved or normal moved, whichever the tool you take.

Yet there's another thing I cannot understand, and that is why I can't use Extend after Polyloop, while Normal move works just fine, but when selecting Normal Move without doing anything and then go to Extend and drag, I get extrusion, not move...

Who can explain insimple words what Flange means?

kiwi

Hmm ok,if it is extruding instead of moving my guess would be the key you might be holding down when you drag,try just dragging,if you are not already holding down a key.



Flange is like an extruded or tapered area which joins to a larger surface,acck nope thats a terrible explanation [stuned] ,someone else will do a better job then that.As with superflange etc it just means a spline which wraps around the shape of the object allowing you to cut vertically or horizontally,and I am assuming Per means the flange is the spline type shape which cuts your object.Kind of like Maxons grime shader being called Dirtynuts,or Darf who is the king of strangenames for his shaders like Nukei etc


Stu.

Bacardi

Yup, but what does the word mean? I had a Flanger effect for my guitar, and know what sound it produces, but what does it mean, unconnected with 3D?

ahhh... [saywhat] : look it up, Erik!
That's what the Internet is for...

gidgit

here's my contribution to this discussion Stu had it right, guys...

Bacardi

Thanks Gidgit!!! That is what I wanted to know. I tried a few dictionaries but they limit flange to those rubber rings holding engine parts together which was as clear as mud to me. Your explanation is.

Man, before I realised "vertex" was a normal English word (I mixed it up with vortex)...

kiwi

Cheers Gidge


One of these days I might get the ability to explain my thoughts back again [confused] ,if not theres always politics [bustagut]



Now I get it so the spline type shape encompassing the object is our flange

Rantin Al

Think of the plates stuck on the ends of two connecting pipes, the part which allows the ends to be bolted together is a flange-plate.

I think the term can be applied to any extra component attached to another for the purpose of strengthening, but is more typically used as a means for joining two items together.

Al.

pepper

Hey
Erik did u use a premade texture for bloodvessel of an alien (on teh first page of the post) because i really like it. if you used a premade one could u let me know which one .

thanks
r4