Creating Irregular Polygons

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# 1 30-08-2014 , 01:09 AM

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Okay...so I am in here the noobie area and I have a question because I cannot figure it out....

How do you create irregular polygon shapes from a box?

I am absolutely stumped...and mystified by this magic... lol

Any help would much appreciated...

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# 2 30-08-2014 , 02:06 AM

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Not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate? Maybe some pictures?

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# 3 30-08-2014 , 02:47 AM

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Do not have a real picture

But lets imagine we have box, a polygon, now I want to take that box, and make an irregular shape such as as hexgon with uneven sides....

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# 4 30-08-2014 , 02:55 AM

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Duh...I was so caught up in using a single shape I forgot about making a cylinder shape with 6 sides then using vertex to move points to where I want them.... <feels like and idiot>

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# 5 30-08-2014 , 12:22 PM

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The easiest way to create things like a hexagon is to create a prism and set the number of sides to 6.

This would be far more accurate then manually moving points.

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# 6 30-08-2014 , 05:07 PM

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jsprogg,

I would completely agree if it was a prism like shape but the shape I needed to create was a 6-sided hexagon whose edges are not regular shape they shoot off in a couple of different directions. I will post a pick soon....

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# 7 30-08-2014 , 05:28 PM

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Not following what you mean to be honest, a 6 sided prism or a 6 sided cylinder are hexagonal. I am in intrigued now ..lol

You are aware that you can change the amount of sides under Inputs in the channel box ?

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# 8 30-08-2014 , 07:53 PM

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Its not all that interesting....lol...I agree with what you said...With that here is my Irregular shaped prism...
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Make Sense? Like I said I was caught up in only using a box.....that I forgot about cylinders lol

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# 9 22-09-2014 , 08:52 PM

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I know cinema 4d has an option "set point value" which randomizes the vertexes of an object, if that's what you want, try searching for a MEL script to do that for you

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