Different shapes of meatballs?

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#1

Hi,

I use Blender 2.70 on a Mac. My question is if it is possible to have a metaball with a different shape.
As I know metaballs are typically cubes or spheres. But I need some kind of cylinder or egg or random shape.

Is that possible? How?

Thanks!

#2

You only have the meta shape available to you in the add menu as well as the shapes you can create by combining those together (egg shape for example)

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If you want complex shapes you’ll have to use meshes

#3

Hi Richard,

thanks I understand!

#4

You can place a meatball into Edit mode. This will present you with a couple of extra parameters under the N-KEY panel that shows up along the right-side of the viewport. The Radius parameter only shows up in this panel and not in the data block view (as it should IMHO).

#5

Hi Atom,

thanks - I will take a look!