Graphics Programs Reference
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Figure 6.161
The box now looks right.
Figure 6.160
The completed box needs one more adjustment.
You're finished with the modeling portion of this decorative box. In the following chap-
ters, you'll texture, light, and render the box with photorealism in mind. You can load
boxModel.mb
from the
Scenes
folder in the Decorative_Box project on the CD to compare
your work.
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Normals
are imaginary lines that are perpendicular to a mesh's poly face and that define
sides for that face. They also help determine how a renderer, such as mental ray, shades the
surface. In some cases when you're modeling, you may notice an action that causes part of
your model to display a darkened area as you see in the decorative box in Figure 6.160. By
manually setting a Normal angle for the box as you did in step 24 of the exercise, you over-
ride the seeming display error. You'll learn more about Normals in Chapter 7.
Normals
are imaginary lines that are perpendicular to a mesh's poly face and that define
sides for that face. They also help determine how a renderer, such as mental ray, shades the
surface. In some cases when you're modeling, you may notice an action that causes part of
your model to display a darkened area as you see in the decorative box in Figure 6.160. By
manually setting a Normal angle for the box as you did in step 24 of the exercise, you over-
ride the seeming display error. You'll learn more about Normals in Chapter 7.
Summary
In this chapter, you flexed your knowledge from the previous chapters and concentrated
on creating a model of a child's toy wagon. You used many of the tools discussed in the
previous chapters, from extruding, to adding edge loops, to using a lattice to finesse a
shape, and even to sculpting by moving vertices and welding them together. You also
