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Rectangles [Solved]

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Okay this is definitely a dumb question, but how the heck do I go about making a 3d rectangle in softimage?
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Do you mean a cube, or do you mean an actual flat plane?

For a cube, you go to Get > Primitive > Polygon Mesh > Cube.
For a plane, you go to Get > Primitive > Polygon Mesh > Grid.

I highly recommend you go through a number of these vids: viewtopic.php?p=445368#p445368
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Okay I suppose I should've just asked this in the first post. Noob moment right there. I've tried to make a rectangle in softimage already, by creating a cube, and then I just changed one of its coordinates so it was a 2x2x0.5 shape or something like that. It munged fine and the texture was placed on it correctly but when I loaded my world up it was just a normal cube. All sides totally symmetrical. And thanks for the link! I'll be sure to comb through those in my spare time.
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Cattermelon wrote:It munged fine and the texture was placed on it correctly but when I loaded my world up it was just a normal cube.
Mmm, that's because you need to freeze the operator stack in order to "save" any changes made to a poly mesh's components.

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Re: Rectangles

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Your solution worked! thanks so much for the help, glad there's people like you on GT to answer all my noob questions. :lol:
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