Hints for Assignment 3

Some of the issues that were common tonight.

For applying PolyFX to illustrator files...

Bring in your illustrator 8 file. 

Select all the curves and go to mesh-conversion-connect objects and delete. 

Find the curve item in your list and put it under an extrude nurbs.

Add polyfx. 

Change its transform scale "s" to all 0s.  

Change falloff to linear and orient it (usually in -x).

Make your extrude nurbs object editable

Put polyfx in as a child of the extrude nurbs.

Animate.

for fixing up projected textures...

Click once on the material icon that is your projected texture in the top right.

Uncheck "tile".

manipulate the texture by clicking on the checkerboard icon on the left.

You can also add another material on the surface to be "under the logo".

To smooth a faceted object (like an stl)...

Right click on the object-C4D tags-Phong tag

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