Model a Rocket with particle trail E-mail
Written by Dzordz   
Sunday, 22 April 2007
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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create rocket using nurbs, and then animate its movement using path curve. Also I’ll show how to make simple smoke trail.


 


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First go to create/CV curve tool.

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Then just click to make points. Make simple profile for rocket. If you make a mistake just press delete and the point will be deleted. When you finish press enter.

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So you shall get something like this

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Then select that curve and go to Surface/revolve option box

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In options window set it to rotate around Z axis

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So you got simple rocket geometry

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If you want to tweak the rocket just select the curve and edit it. The rocket will be updated. Note, construction history must be on (it is by default)

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Now select the rocket geometry and go to isopram mode and select the last isopram.

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Then go to surfaces/planar. This will make planar surface from selected shape.

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Now create more curves like this

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Select them all

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