spline patching help!

[brendan.t]

hi all

i'm new to this forum and ive been referred her for some help.

please could some body help me with spline patching. i'm very new to it.

ive created a "cage" of the object using the bezier tool. welded crossing points together and sorted out the direction to patch areas.

but...

some work great and some areas dont patch at all!

the areas that ive patched those points dont always meet up with adjacent patches and i get funny little dots.

and they dont smooth off very well. when i render it you can still see where the patches where.

please could somebody help!!

thank you.

[Skonk]

You need to make sure your patches all line up. If u look at the image iv attached, the top row is made up of 2 patches that fit together correctly, the bottom row is 3 patches but the 2 of the left dont line up with the 1 on the right so the points dont connect, so when u subd the object it will have holes, to fix it u could add another spline between the 1 and 2 that iv drawn in or remove the small spline going across and just use 2 patches. I dont think iv made very good sence lol but i hope u see what i mean. Im sure Larry (SplineGod) or someone else can offer u more help..

James..

[brendan.t]

thank you v much!

it's so much easier when you get shown how.

Thanks again.