Multiloft Tutorial

Here we are in part three of our tutorials on modelling, and this time I am going to show you the technique of multilofting. For example, say you want to model a square peice into a round piece and back to square again all in one seamless mesh. This by normal boxmodelling is nearly impossible and the results are poor so we are going to try the good old multi loft. Start up Max and draw 2 square splines a circle spline and a straight line like in fig 1.a

Fig 1.a

Now that you did that, select the square on the bottom. Now, select loft from the compound tab and scroll down the rollout until it says creation method and select the get path button. Making sure your spline square on the bottom is still selected and the get path button is highlighted, select the straight line to the left. Now you should have something similar fig 1.b

Fig 1.b

Now, under the path parameters set the path to a value of about 10. Now go back up to the creation parameters and select get shape. Now go ahead and select your circle spline in the middle. Btw, it might be easier to be in wire frame mode like I am. Now you should look like fig2.a

Fig 2.a

So far so good I hope now all you do is set your path to around 50. Go back and press select shape. Now select your top square spline, and it should turn out like my pic in fig 2.b. Practice with differnt shapes and different path values. Good luck.

Fig 2.b