thanks for usefull tips and now how can i create spiral ornament in corners of corinthian capital ?
that’s a complicated model
need to make a spiral then you skin it manually!
spiral can be added with array see wiki page on this
but you can also do a beginning of ionic shape with the screw tool
or i did a script to make all kind of spirals
if interested let me know i’ll get the WIP thread for this!
i’m re working some of my old capitals and will open a new WIP thread soon
to show something for different corinthian capitals and ionic for the composite capital
later this week i guess or beginning of next week at most!
these capitals are the most complicated to do and not so easy
takes time to get the modelling skills!
happy 2.5
yes i interested about id , i love this architecture
what do you mean
you want the thread for the spiral wip i did ?
thanks
happy 2.5
yes i want thread about spiral 
thx
Here are some nice capitals. Crazy sculpture work:
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/classic-columns-3d-max/263784
working a little on the other models with acanthus leaves
i re did my old leaves using a lower res for the leaves but still the stem/leaves gets 10 000 vertices
and this is using low res leaves
so for a whole column i mean i’m still gone get close to 300 000 vertices for this model
it’s a model with lot’s of details so difficult to use this with several columns in a scene
don’t know i can try to make it with sculpt tools may be using multires which should be faster
but would probably end up with over 600000 vertices
but it should still be faster in blender 2.5 !
happy 2.5
There are really two geometry you are looking at here. One is the Spiral, and other is where this Spiral form is sitting. I take it this way. Just make simple spiral profile based on the photo:
This spiral profile needs to be extruded to give it a thickness. If you look at the photo closely, it is apparent that it follows the contour of upper load bearing slab. You need to get this form first. So that it can be used as a template to pull extruded face out to it. Just adjust each vertex to align it to the form. It is going to get fat at the base this way:
