3. Click the Pick Spline button and click the spline next
to the sphere.
4. Immediately, you will see an extruded element coming from the sphere. It probably
doesn??™t look very good because you still need to work with the parameters.
Figure 4.40
The Cap function
fills in a hole with a
single polygon.
138 ?– chapter 4: Modeling in 3ds Max: Part I
5. Start by adding more segments; 15 to 20 should give you a good-looking extrusion.
The extrusion in Figure 4.41 is the result of 11 segments, ??“0.5 taper amount, and 2.0
taper curve.
Play around with some of the settings to get a good feel for what this tool can do. As a
matter of fact, it??™s a really good idea to play around with all of the tool settings you have
seen here and some of the ones you haven??™t. This is a good way, if not somewhat frustrating,
to learn 3ds Max??”or any 3D program for that matter. Use this sphere, or another
editable poly you create, to experiment with the different tools available in this rollout for
all the sub-object levels to get a basic idea of how things work. You can rely on the text in
this book, as well as the online user reference dialog titled ???Autodesk 3ds Max Reference,???
which you can launch from 3ds Max??™s Help menu.
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