Making basket Wire Help!!!!

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Hey i was just wondering if any of you kjnow how to make wire for a basket? or a tutorial that shows you how to do it???

Thanks people

Razoul

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I don’t know what type of basket, but try this:

Make a UV sphere, delete the top half or so.

Go to top view, re-size the circle in only one plane, making it thinner(into an oval).

Select top ring of oval, extrude to bring up the wall of the basket.

That should give you a basket shape with a rounded bottom… Then you can add a handle using whatever method you want.

Or you could draw a profile of the basket, spin out a 360 model, and then re-size it against one axis to make it skinny like a basket.

what type of basket where you thinking about making?

If you want a woven type thing, you could either model the weaves in blender using whatever weaving method you want, or you could apply a texture for alpha and bump/disp, making parts of the basket transparent and applying the right bump to the basket to make it seem like weaving.

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After reading your post I played around with a simple weaving pattern
and came up with this:

http://lennon.csufresno.edu/~rwv01/basket.jpg

Is this what you mean? This uses a lot of polys of course so unless it needs to be close up then the textured model meathod is best as per MacGyver above.

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You might want to try the taper twist script on it too.

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rwv01: wow that is great how did you make that??? that looks awesome. got the thing that i wanted n e way

seems as though i was making it way to complicated still i would like to know how you made that

modron: what does the taper twister script do???

thanks all

Razoul

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It’s not hard. I’ll make up a little tute and post the link here.

I’ll try using the taper twister script on it too.

How did you end up making for yours?