Backgrounds?

Alan

I printed out all the help files and tutorials and am busy working my way through them. I am very impressed with all the clever features of 3DC – and for such a low price. Terrain and surfaces look very interesting.

As I haven’t spotted any reference to it in the documentation yet I will ask – how do I create a background for (starfield etc) my models?

Something as simple as a floor would be handy too……

Thanks

Paul

Okay, I have backgrounds sorted out but how do I get a floor?

I have looked in the documentation, honest!

Paul

Oops, sorry. Found it….

Do you mean a floor to replage the grid or a floor to stand things on ?

To replace the grid (eg to use a blue print) click on the wagon icons at the top – these allow you to select a picture which will replace the grid.

If you just want a floor for your objects to stand on then you could add a cube and resize/position it below the other objects ?

Thanks for that Alan.

The only other 3D program I have used is openfx ([img:57xk7x58]http://www.openfx.org[/img:57xk7x58]
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) which includes a ‘ground’ model.

Ideally I wanted something like this in 3DC, but I will have use use a cube as you said.

Many thanks for your help

Paul

3DC does have a terrain object to build more complex floors (just thought – I bet with a suitable heightmap and texture a great wooden floor-board floor could be made…. I must try to play later ! andnbsp;) and you could also use the plugin andquot;create faceandquot; to help reduce the face count (rather than use a cube)

(there is also the surface object – but I’ve never even tried that…. :-[ )