adding polygons to splines

[Saber]

HI

I wanted to draw a mouth by drawing the form with a spline. Then I had a flat figure with the shape of a lip. Now, I wanted it to be 3D of course. I tried doing that with Bevel and With extrude.

With Extrude:
I was able to make it 3d, but I couldn't add polys. When I increased the number of segments, only the segments on the side increased. In the figure itself, where I want the polys, no polys were added.

With Bevel:
I increased the segments here to, but that was weird. I was ably to do what I wanted to, but only with vertexes, I wasn't able to select polys.

So isn't there a way to draw my own polys in the spline, so it would be easier to edit them?

TIA


*edit: Or is there a way to extrude a spline followin another (or a few other splines?) Allthough I proly don't hace the wanted ploys yet then.

[niki]

take a look at this tutorial
http://www.3dzealot.com/php/index.php (mirror#1 > save target)
I followed it and that's the result
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=25492

[Saber]

Is there normally sound cming with the tut?
cuz it's without sound, and the quality isn't very good either (moviequality)==> can't read anything
+ it goes so fast

[niki]

yeah ..you're right ..but it's a guide for sure..
well ..I really don't remember how his quality is, it helped me so much because it made me know another way to model..
it requires a knowledge of the program's interface and I don't know what your level is ..
so sorry if the tutorial is difficult to follow ..
however how you can see in this tutorial, you can draw the shape of the mouth and, after you've converted this shape in editable polygon, you can add more polygons simply selecting the edges and moving them keeping pressed the "shift" key.
about his speed ..I can suggest you to play it frame by frame ..so I did

[Saber]

Oh yes, off course!
That I didn't think of that, just use the shift button, Thx

[Saber]

Hmm, How can I make a spline an editable poly? I can only get it to editable mesh. And If I move the vertexes with the shfitbutton then I just get separated vertexes, ther're not connected, just floating around the spline. But now I've got to go, so I'll take a look at the tuturial tonight.

[niki]

mmm.. it's impossible ..you can convert your spline in editable poly ..
you don't have to move the vertexes but the edges.
well ..
1. create > shapes > Ngons (sides 8 ..or what you prefer) ..look at the pic 1
2. create another shape and use the Attach command to attach the shapes .. pic 2
3. convert the shape in editable poly ..pic 3
4. connect the vertexes ..pic 4

[niki]

pic 4

[Saber]

Thx a lot:)