Now the viewport is clear for you to design the table. Under the Object menu, click Hide Selection. I will guide you to create the shape of a basic table, which you could refine later.īut before you design the table, it would be best to hide your papaya and bowl. Yes! Go ahead and design a table to your liking. The bowl will contain the papaya, but where do we place the bowl? The obvious suggestion would be a table. ![]() Having created the papaya and the bowl, you might feel that something is missing. Similarly, lathe the profile curve you created for the fruit basin, and rename the lathed object “Basin”, “Bowl”, or whatever suits your taste, as in Figure 8.įigure 8: Lathing the plate Creating the table Go ahead and hide the Papaya object before lathing the basin. Right-click the Curve 1 entry, and choose Clear. One more thing might annoy you - the extra lining along the papaya, which is the profile curve you used to create the papaya. Right click the entry click Rename Object, and name your object “Papaya”. ![]() Now, you might notice that your papaya object is called lathed object 1. ![]() You could move around the points to shape the papaya as you want it to appear, as shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7. If you feel that its shape is too “regular” and therefore appears artificial, you could even tweak your papaya by double-clicking it in the front viewport itself. Have a little patience I’ll show you how to do that soon enough. That is because you haven’t textured it as yet. You have created your first object in Art of Illusion, as shown in Figure 4.ĭon’t be disheartened if it doesn’t look as impressive as you wanted. Accept the default settings and close the dialogue box. Select the first curve you created for the papaya, and go to the Tools menu and click the Lathe entry. Make sure the first curve is visible by clicking Show Selection after selecting the name of the curve visible in the property bar towards the right of the viewport. Make sure you create these curves in the front viewport.įigure 3: Profile curve for plate Lathing, tweaking, renaming and clearing Now go and create the second profile curve for the fruit container or bowl, as shown in Figure 3. Hide your first curve by selecting it and clicking Hide Selection under the Object menu. Your profile curve should correspond to the shape of half a papaya, as shown in Figure 2. Creating the profile curvesĬlick the Curve tool, and start adding points to create your first profile curve. It becomes a simple shortcut to the menu items, which are, as usual, arranged at the top. To the right of Figure 1, you find the property bar, which is helpful whenever you are either editing or texturing an object in the viewport. The ones in next column are Rotate, Universal Manipulator, Ellipsoid, Spline Mesh, Create Curve, Create Light and Rotate View. The left column toolbar icons in Figure 1, in order, are for Move, Scale, Cube, Cylinder, Polygon, Camera and Move View. Although these icons are self-explanatory, I shall offer a quick introduction. On the left, you’ll find the icon toolbar. ![]() Thanks to the authors, it is not cluttered by too many icons, like other software. You get a simple-looking GUI, with a default camera and a light visible in the centre of the viewport as shown in Figure 1.ĭon’t be misled by the simplicity. The Linux version is as simple to install as is Windows. The authors offer Linux and Windows versions.
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