22-12-2003, 12:46 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 49
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patching hardships
im trying to model this 360 modena going by the mclearan tut, but im having some problems:
i understand you need 4 splines in order to patch a surface, but sometimes i have 4 splines but it wont let me patch, it says the curves do not match and that sort of thing. what could i be doing wrong. what are the criteria for making a patch from 4 splines? can you please explain what im doing wrong? i just need to get this figured out and i should be able to pretty much finish the model. this is my spline map so far:  also, when i try to shift Z some points, this is an example of what happens: 
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22-12-2003, 10:19 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Sunbury, UK
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Make sure that where the curves cross that the points are welded. Otherwise you end up with an open surface for Lightwave to try and patch.
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