Here’s a water tower I’m working on… any opinions on it? I’m trying to figure out a way to put a railing around the rim on the tank part… but I’m not really sure how to do it.
The tower itself looks off to a good start, especially the supports. The piece that attaches to the bottom of the main tank seems odd though (looks like it’s apart of the same model, I’m no expert on water towers but I’m pretty sure its something they connect to the bottom, not all one piece…)
Easy way to do railing - array modifier + curve modifier. "Here’s" a link to get you started.
thanks, and yes the piece on the bottom of the tank is all connnected, I figured it would just be easier and quicker… don’t really matter for me. I’m not too good with curves yet I always seem to screw it up, but I’ll look at the link that you gave me.
I’m having problems with it… I can’t figure out how to get it to work I even downloaded a couple of the samples on there and checked the settings and stuff and tried to match it but I still can’t get it to work sometimes nothing comes up and sometimes it just adds things next to it and it doesn’t go in a circle… and I can’t get the curve thing figured out.
simpler than the array modifier would be dupliverts on a circle + add>>mesh>>torus
you know I did try the torus actually… and I was gonna mention that but I forgot. I couldn’t get the rim to shrink to the size I needed! any time I tried to scale it the entire thing went really big or really small, I need a large ring with the diameter of the tube really small, but it wouldn’t do it 