Help with birail
 

i'm trying to make my first surface using birail but when i've selected all the curves it i can't see a surface even though outliner is telling me it's there.

make sure the ends of your profile curves are snapped to the rails. i had this problem too.

The best way to do it is hold the c key down when creating your profile curves so they snap to the rails as blinn said.

check this out..
 

Hello !!!

well, I´ve posted a thread a few days ago with the same problem. adldesigner was really nice, and he explained all the stuff very detailed, so check this out:

http://forums.simplymaya.com/showthr...light=bernhard

best wishes,
bernhard :bgreen:

there are not touching

The birail is a very picky thing - also make sure the history is deleted on the curve....also a good guess would be that you have once before made a surface, but deleted and remade..

If this is the case then yes it is VERY fussy - It is almost quicker to make a new curve over the old one and then delete the old one, I have had this problem many times.

But the first thing I would check is that your curves are touching, your curves match points (rebuild curve) and that the curve direction go the same way (curve direction - reverse)

Thanks, it was becuase i hadn't snapped the curves.