The Sketch tool enables you to just click and draw,
and when you release the mouse button, you have a 3D curve! You can
use curves to build objects with splines. As you??™ll learn later in this
book, splines are useful for building organic objects such as boats, curtains,
or sometimes characters. Another key tool in this category is
Spline Draw, with which you can precisely create curves, not only for
models, but even text or custom shapes. Figure 1.24 shows the tools
in this category.
Figure 1.22
The Points category
offers tools
to create single
points or clusters
of points.
Points, as you
know, make up
objects.
Figure 1.23
The Polygons
category offers
polygonal
creation tools.
Figure 1.24
You can use
curves for text,
characters,
motion paths,
and more.
ModifyTab
The Modify tab??”sounds simple enough, right? Well, it is.
Anytime you want to modify your object in some way that does
not require adding or removing points or polygons, you need to
use a modify function. Click this tab and at the top left you??™ll see
the seven tools available in every tab.Below them, you??™ll see three
toolset categories:Translate,Rotate, and Transform (Figure 1.
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