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| Figure 1.5: Ball Parameters. |
Change to layer two, to model the neck so we can keep it separate from the rest of our Robot that we have built so far.
The top of the neck is a ball shape on which our Robot's head can turn and tilt.
Create a Ball (from the Create tab, or by pressing 'O') and use
the parameters shown in Figure 1.5 in the Numeric Requester ('n').
Drop the Ball tool.
Ok, before we start this step I admit it will seem odd, and that it is one of those really annoying steps you get in tutorials where there is no obvious effect, yet. All I can really say is that the step is required to create the polygons that will help give the neck it's shape once it is converted to SubPatches.
Select the bottom eight polygons in the sphere. Now perform a Smooth Shift
(Multiply tab or 'F'), and use the numeric requester to set an Offset
of 0, and a Scale of 100%. Drop the Smooth Shift tool (Spacebar, and reselect
it, open the Numeric requester again and this will activate the previous settings. In this
particular instance we want to have applied these settings twice to create the
geometry we need. Close the requester and drop the tool again. Leave the polygons
selected.
With the polygons still selected from the last step, select the Move tool from the Modify tab ('t'). Now any one of the Left, Right, Front, or Back viewports press the 'Ctrl' key and then hold down the mouse button as you drag downwards. This moves the polygons that are selected in only the axis you first moved the mouse. In our case we want to move the polygons down by 150mm. To get the distance correct use the Offset display in the Bottom left of your screen.
That's nearly it for the neck, before we make the last change deselect everything and
convert it into SubPatches to see how far we've got.
The final step is to use the Knife tool as we did in Section 2, to reinforce the bottom of the neck by making another cut. Before we do this make sure that no polygons are selected.
Select one of side views, and make a horizontal cut with the knife tool just above the group of points at the bottom of the neck. The neck should still look rounded but the bottom should now have a squarer profile.
That's it for the Neck now on to the body.