| A barrel ready to explode! |
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| Written by Dzordz | |||||
| Friday, 07 July 2006 | |||||
Page 1 of 3 If you ever wanted to make a barrel that was ready to explode, get crashed or just stand there this one is for you. Although many, including me, do not support overuse and in most cases unnecessary use of Boolean operations in some cases it is a must to get the results for wich we would otherwise need Mr. Booleans mathematical knowledge. For example, if you ever needed a barrel to be used with any dynamical effect (eg. to smash it) you would need it put together from pieces. And since you are not a skilled barrel maker and probbably do not posess expert mathematical knowledge, here is a nice little tutorial to help you. The program used here is 3DS Max but any other will do too.  We will start by creating a barrel profile with spline. There is no need to hand draw the curve in profile, just draw like in the picture a simple profile (here height 200 width 40, in the middle width 10 and on tips 5) on the two vertexes in the middle of the profile do a fillet (80 units gives us a pretty nice curve) and you will get a finished profile like in the next picture.  It would be good to add 3 more profiles for the rings on the barrel like this.  |
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