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Load the advertence angel in the Luminosity-channel and yield a agenda on the admeasurement of the image. Then actualize a cube and accord it agnate ethics in the X- and Y-fields. Set Z to 1. Assign the cube the actual with the absence mapping type, UVW -- you wish the advertence angel displayed on the foreground of the cube so that you can plan from the Foreground viewport and with UVW the angel will abode itself properly.

Then move the cube 1 or 2 units backwards on the Z-axis. Why? In the next footfall you're gonna actualize a Polygon Object and alpha abacus credibility and if you accumulate the cube at 0 on the Z-axis you credibility will be placed visually "inside" the cube. The credibility will be created at Z=0 and you don't wish that amplitude active by the cube. So change the cube's Z-position from 0 to 2.



When you accept all credibility in abode you baddest them all and carbon them already -- Structure>Edit Surface>Clone. Set Clones to 1 and change Rotation from 180Ú to 0Ú. Click OK.



OK, now you've cloned your credibility so don't let go of that selection! Move the new credibility on the Z-axis alone to -50 (or just blazon -50 in the Coordinates Manager). All credibility are at the aforementioned Z-value so affective them all att the aforementioned time will be OK at this stage. Note: the cloned credibility are the unselected ones in the angel above.



Time to arch the points. Select the Arch apparatus (Structure>Bridge) or just hit B on your keyboard. The cursor will now attending like an arrow with a small, atramentous bridge. Click on the aboriginal point and alpha bridging. Check out this gif if you're not abiding on area to start, or apprehend up on the Arch apparatus in the manual



This is almost what you should accept by now. Here I've alone the Segment in a Symmetry Object just to see how it works. Now it's time to alpha slicing application the Knife.



Select the Knife (Structure>Knife) or hit the letter K on your keyboard. Accomplish abiding that the advantage Bind to Selection is absolved in the Active Tools Manager -- we wish our cuts to allotment throgh the accomplished mesh. From the Top or Right viewport add 4 cuts like in the image: 2 cuts to anatomy a attenuate bandage of polygons and 2 cuts to anatomy a hardly added band. If you authority down Shift while acid you will bind the knife to 45Ú angles and will accomplish it easier to accumulate the cuts straight.



Now about-face to Polygon mode, baddest the polygons apparent aloft and annul them.



This is how it should look.



OK, this can be a bit catchy but the assumption is absolutely easy: baddest some points, carbon and move them, and use the Bridge apparatus to actualize new polygons. Here's how you do it:

Select the credibility on the angel apparent with amethyst dots (•) and archetype their Y-value from the Coordinates Manager.

Now baddest the dejected dots (•) and carbon them once, just as we did before.

Paste the ethics you affected beforehand in the cloned dot's Y-channel and hit Enter -- the credibility should move down to the position apparent with orange (•).



Now Bridge the credibility to body the polygons nescessary for the arrangement of the tire. The angel aloft shows what it should attending like.



Continue cloning credibility and again bridging them as this angel shows. As you can see I've let 2 triangles blooper through but I anticipate we can get abroad with it :)



Now it's time for some added slicing. Select the Top appearance and lay down 6 cuts forth the X-axis as apparent in the image. The cuts are fabricated abutting to the edges and the acumen for these cuts is to accommodate aciculate analogue if we eventually bead the accomplished caster in a HyperNURBS. If you're done acid swith to Front appearance for some added slices.



The atramentous curve on the angel indicates area the cuts should go. Once again, we wish aciculate analogue on our annoy arrangement and this will get us there.



This close-up is just to allegorize that I absitively to go with triangles for the catastrophe of the thinner polygon bandage as well. You can aswell see some of the cuts we fabricated in the antecedent steps.



If you bead the Segment in a Symmetry Object and hit cede you should accept something like the angel on the right. It has some affinity with a annoy but we're not there yet. Switch to Points approach and Top viewport.



Select the Live Selection apparatus and accomplish abiding that Only Baddest Visible Elements is unchecked. Then baddest a any accumulation of 4 credibility and alpha affective the on the X- and Z-axes. If you accept some advertence actual of absolute annoy patterns, use them, contrarily just move and circle the credibility (around Y-axis only!) until you get something that could canyon as a believable pattern.



Frequently analysis with the Symmetry Object alive and alone in a HyperNURB to see how you're doing. When you're annoyed it's time to Duplicate and again Bend.



Deactivate the HyperNURBS and baddest the Symmetry Object. Then baddest Function>Duplicate. The amount of Copies determines the admeasurement of your annoy -- 5 copies will accomplish it appealing baby and 200 will accomplish it appealing huge (although rather thin...). Anyway, access 50 to alpha with and plan from there. Alse analysis Generate Instances so you wont bog down your arrangement with too abundant geometry. Also, if you change the geometry of your Segment, all instances will amend immeadiately.Now, the catchy allotment actuality is to apperceive how abundant every instance should move. Baddest Top appearance and alpha experimenting with altered ethics for the Z-channel. You ability wanna zoom in absolute abutting in adjustment to get the instances to band up properly. I begin that something about 2500 was an adapted number. Click OK.



Add a Bend deformer (Objects>Deformations>Bend). Accumulation the Symmetry Article (containing your Segment), the Instances and the Bend deformer beneath a Absent Article (Objects>Null Object). Name the absent Wheel. Select Right viewport and circle the Bend deformer -90° about the X-axis/Pitch. Now double-click the Bend article to accompany up its chat box. Change the Y admeasurement so that it encompasses the accomplished accumulation of instances and is placed analytic in the average of the group. Check Keep Y Axis Length and set the Mode to Limited.



Your bureaucracy should be as the angel aloft illustrates. Now we will angle all those instances into a amphitheater and basic the absolute tire.



Grab authority of the chicken handle on the Bend deformer and alpha boring it in the Z-direction. You will see the instances starting to bend. You will apparently accept to annoyance the handle as able-bodied as zoom out absolutely a bit afore the amphitheater will be about closed. Now zoom in and double-click the Bend deformer already again. You'll see that the Bend will be actual top and this is the amount you should play with now -- add 10-20 degrees, bang OK and see what happens. Zoom in acutely abutting on the gap amid the two ends and accomplish abiding that they accommodated as neatly as you can. For my caster the bend of 412Ú accepted to be OK.



Now bead the Wheel-group in a HyperNURBS and cede -- Congratulations, you accept a tire! Just add a hubcap and you're accessible to roll!




Here I've added some added cuts (the band forth the centermost of the tire) to breach up the arrangement a bit additional a rim modeled by afterward this tutorial by Holger Schömann at Digital Worlds.

Note: the annoy can get actual abundant on the polycountside if you bead it in a HyperNURBS so if you're not planning any close-up shots of it, conciliate the HN. Usually you can get abroad with simple polygons. Or set the HyperNURBS Subdivision Renderer to 1 to accumulate some smoothness.