Sports Shoe

I’m following the [Luxology shoe tutorial]. And after two days of modeling, I have the shoe insert structure done. Things go a lot faster now. Knowing when to sew, bridge, polygon, and edge slice makes things easier.

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[part1]

On the second part, the bridge tool is used to make the shoe lace eyelets. But the example process didn’t work for me. I found another way to bridge the inner ring by selecting these two loops and then hitting bridge.

Other fallback is to select and bridge two edge loops in edge mode.

Here is a test render of my shoe halfway thru part 2.


Versions: [shoe_012.lxo]

Using fonts to make a hand

Sketch3d has an [example tutorial] of how to use the Wingdings font in order to create a cartoon hand.

Delete the inner edge by selecting edge and double clicking the inner edge. Hit the delete key.

Create a new mesh item and use the pen tool to trace the hand in front view.

Next create a net to constrain over the hand like this [tutorial video].

Something needs to be done with the jagged outer edge.

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[model]

Survey of Facebook

[Facebook Developers] The Facebook Developer site is the starting point for learning how to develop an application for Facebook.

[Visual Studio Express with Facebook] Visual Studio Express Showcase contains tutorial videos of step by step instructions for including Facebook in C# Windows Applications and C# ASP .NET webpages.

[C4F Vista Peer-to-Peer Toolkit] Codeplex offers a P2P toolkit for Facebook developers.

[Actionscript API for the Facebook platform] Google-Code offers an API to access Facebook from AS3.

[Facebook Wiki] Another useful resource for developing Facebook applications.

[Exploring 3D in Flash] An example that Facebook could be applied to.

XP Pro on VMware

If you can install VMware server on Windows 2003 then you’ll be able to create a VMware virtual image. After the image is created, load the image with VMware player which works on Win2k, WinXP, and Vista. When the VMware image boots you can install any OS. Lastly, load the image on the VMware server to install the VMware client tools after the OS is running. Here’s an example of WinXP Pro running on Vista in a window.