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Part III: Modeling Basics

FIGURE 14.34
Objects also can be painted on the surface of another object in the scene.

Using the Paint Fill mode
The Paint Fill mode allows you to place the paint object at regular intervals along a selected edge. Before the
Paint Fill mode is enabled, you need to have a paint object selected and an edge or an edge loop selected.
Once selected, the Paint Fill button simply places the paint object along the edge. The Fill Number value
determines the number of objects that are placed along the selected edge loop. Figure 14.35 shows a sphere
filled with several cone objects using this mode.
Painting with animated objects
If the object that you are painting with has some animation associated with it, then you can specify an
offset for the motion of the object. The options for how the animated object plays are in the Paint Objects
panel and include Consecutive, which plays the animation on each painted object in order offset by the
By # Frames value. For example, if you have a box that spins and you set the By # Frames value to 2,
then the first box in the painted line will start spinning at frame 0 and the second will start at frame 2,
and so on. The other Offset Transform Motion option is Random, which randomly starts the animation
for each object.

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