Help! help me!!!

[pomme]

I am doing a poly model. I started with a cube, adding vertex and edges to form a shape. However, I deleted a polygon accidently. Now, my geometry has a hole that couses by a missing polygon. What do i do to recover that polygon. Anyidea?

[fredc]

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I am doing a poly model. I started with a cube, adding vertex and edges to form a shape. However, I deleted a polygon accidently. Now, my geometry has a hole that couses by a missing polygon. What do i do to recover that polygon. Anyidea?

Just use Polygon/Polygon. You will click on each vertex, and once you except the last one, a new poly will be created.
I recommend making user hot key for this. Vertex,Edge andPolygon.

In case you are new to this, here is how.
Preferences/KeyboardSetup
Learn
The cursor will change to a "graduate" cap. Just click on the menus until you hit the command you want a hot key for. In this case lets try Polygon/Vertex. Once you click a command, a dialog pops up with a view of the keyboard. Just click on the key/keys you want to map to the command. I like to use Shift 1, Shift 2 and Shift 3. for Vertex, Edge and Polygon. In this case you would click shift and 1.
When done with all new hot keys, use Preferences/KeyboardSetup/Save. Then you can retrieve later with Preferences/KeyboardSetup/Load.

Hints:
1. You have some others that are default hot keys. G with do ray casting to select polygons, and Y will let you select polygons with a rectangle.
2. Sometimes it is easiest to see your model in a shaded view with icon mode on. Just hit (Shift + i ) to turn on icon (wireframe overlay

Hope this helps,
Urp

[meatlockerii]

I was just wondering is there anyway to change the view so that it's easier to pick out vertices?

e.g.

U have a complex model and u can't pick out an exact vertex coz there's another vertex exactly behind the one u want & with the inclusion of all the other surrounding verticies making it hard to see. U some how manage to pick the wrong / more vertices and mess up your model. U try to undo it only to see that it's undoing camera angles of the perspective window and u have to start again. Doh!!

This has, belive it or not happened to me several times
Gah i'm a total newbie.

Oh yeah another thing sometimes when u undo a transformation on a model (usually a character) it goes all pear shaped and very deformed, is there anyway of stopping that happening?

thx.

[fredc]

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I was just wondering is there anyway to change the view so that it's easier to pick out vertices?

e.g.

U have a complex model and u can't pick out an exact vertex coz there's another vertex exactly behind the one u want & with the inclusion of all the other surrounding verticies making it hard to see. U some how manage to pick the wrong / more vertices and mess up your model. U try to undo it only to see that it's undoing camera angles of the perspective window and u have to start again. Doh!!

This has, belive it or not happened to me several times
Gah i'm a total newbie.

Oh yeah another thing sometimes when u undo a transformation on a model (usually a character) it goes all pear shaped and very deformed, is there anyway of stopping that happening?

thx.

Not much time to help today. However, I'll try to help quickly.
Look at:
1. In a shaded View go to setup. Then turn on Transparent Ghosting. Then Select your object and use Dispplay/Ghost/ToggleDisplay. This will let you see verticies that are behind front surface.

1. You can turn on Show Icons for Unselected objects so everything has wireframe outline.

2. You can tag a polygon with G key (raycast), which turns it purple. This will give you a referece. You can tag the verticies of the polygon with Tag/TagPolygon

3. it is a surface model, you can tage a row in U or V (see Tag commands). Then unselect tags you don't need.

Not sure what you specifically mean by transformations on a character. However, try Actor Module- Skeleton/Reset Actor. This resets the actor back to the position it was in when the enveloped was assigned.

Hope this helps,
Urp

[pomme]

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I was just wondering is there anyway to change the view so that it's easier to pick out vertices?

e.g.

U have a complex model and u can't pick out an exact vertex coz there's another vertex exactly behind the one u want & with the inclusion of all the other surrounding verticies making it hard to see. U some how manage to pick the wrong / more vertices and mess up your model. U try to undo it only to see that it's undoing camera angles of the perspective window and u have to start again. Doh!!

This has, belive it or not happened to me several times
Gah i'm a total newbie.

Oh yeah another thing sometimes when u undo a transformation on a model (usually a character) it goes all pear shaped and very deformed, is there anyway of stopping that happening?

thx.

If you want to orbit around without saving it into history when you are modeling. U should change your viewport as ortho. This is a great moleling viewport with 0 degree angle. and you won't save into history when you orbit around. It doesn't border you when you zoom in and out.

Hope this help.
HapZungLam