As with any rock, the one made in the last post is a little bit bland. It needs some goodies to make it look funky and sexy, so that female rocks gasp and say "Look! It's a rock!" and subsequently swoon.
According to the latest in rock fashion; 'seaweed' is "in". Wonderful, let's adorn our beauty with some of it!
Starting off with a line tool. set to 'corner' and 'bezier'. In other words, it creates pointy corners; unless you drag the line, in which case it becomes a curve (with bezier handles: meaning that you can come back and edit the arc of the curve later!). A simple strand was created... mmm... that hot chocolate is nice...
And suddenly, they've multiplied! Did I really sit there and create several of them? No, of course not. They're all edited copies of the original! In fact, if you look really closely, the smaller 2 on the far right are exactly the same as the 2 strands on the left of the centre one!
Now, the weeds get stuffed with lots of bones. Why? It allows me to tweak and bend them! In other words, the weeds can now ripple as if they are moving in the water. I attempted to twist the weeds, so they were like spirals... but 3DS Max wasn't too co-operative with that... ripples it is then.
And there it is! Simple rotation of the bones now means we have a nice set of seaweed that's gently swaying in the ocean current... aww... you'd almost forget that it was incredibly slimy... Let's see how out rock looks with some of these babies on it!
Now isn't that much nicer? See how happy the rock looks?
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