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# 7 17-07-2006 , 12:35 PM
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Originally posted by pixelsoul
Ok yes maybe i should make it more clear i need it with the funy ripples :p But I don't understand every thrid ring of edges? You mean I have to manually put extrude each ripply out? There would have to be an easier way out right :p

Haha, ya there might be an easier way to do it, but later that night that I posted it I made that same tube, and it only took me about 20 minutes.

The way I did it was I extruded the circle along the curve path (like R@nSiD says), then I used the split polygon edge tool to make a lot of rings on each side of the extruded cylinder. Then I made the inner rings larger, this creates the ripples. I then smoothed the polygon and acheived the same look.

(When I said every 3rd, I just mean like spreading out the ripples, sorry for the confusion. If you extruded out all the rings then you wouldnt get ripples.)