Modeling (Venice)

[Kalti]

Ow... what are you doing on 02:16?

[Kalti]

Also, I have my moh imported staircase on a 'locked' layer and I'm drawing the new one ontop in a 2nd layer... is that gonna give me any problems further on?

[@(...:.:...)@]

@ layers, no should be fine.

What I am doing is selecting 2 or more verticies and scaling them in one direction. This little trick basicly lines them up.

Try it yourself, make a plane, grab the top 2 verticies and scale it down. If you keep scaling the verticies will be at the same spot (or very close to the same spot).

You can also use it to make the line between 2 verticies completley horisontal or vertical which I do when shaping the side walls of the staircase.

You can also use view align on a 2d view, but scaling is faster.

[Kalti]

Okay, I'm having problems after deleting the underside (face?) of a step and then do targetweld to 'seal' of the open parts.

It seems like targetweld doesn't want to be closed on the 2nd vertice.

[@(...:.:...)@]

I can't realy say why without looking at the model, but this sometimes happens. Make sure there are no faces already surrounding the vert (would be pretty obvious, so proberbly not that.). try grabbing one edge at a time that will be welded together, and move them about a bit to see what is going on. Try deleting both faces and re create them by selecting an edge, holding shift and moving the edge line.

[Bobson]

Nice video, always interesting to see how someone else models...