Instead of selecting a Planar Map, this time, select Cylindrical Map. Pan the camera to the side, select the Polygons that you need, and find the 4 Shapes again on the right menu. These ones do separately because there is a trick to them. Move those shapes away from the center stage as well. Now, pan the camera around to the bottom of the shape, select the bottom Polygons in which you can see, and do the same thing as you did with the top Polygons Find the 4 shapes, click Planear Map, and unselect it. Unselect Planar Map so that you can now move the shape which you have created. With all your selections selected, click the flat plane one called Planar Map, and it should flatten out the flat areas of the shape into one single shape. Now, the right bar on the main stage, with the 3D model, scroll down the bar until you can see 4 little shapes under the tab Projection. Pan your camera over the top of the shape and select all of the flat polygons you can see like I have done. Because the model you have made might be quite different from mine, IвЂ™ll just go over basics. When you have clicked this, a new window will open with another stage, possibly a bunch of lines, and lots of options to choose from. Scroll down the side bar again and find the button which says Open UV Editor. After you have done that, select Unwrap UVW, and go to Selection and select Polygon. This is how you tell the object that itвЂ™s done for some texturing. Scroll down until you can see Unwrap UVW. On the side bar, just on the right, click the drop down menu which is at the top. Here I just created a random object which I will be unwrapping through this. You will now see that the glass is now invisible, and looks very much like glass!

Now apply the texture to your Glass, and render it. When the new window pops up, find Raytrace. Scroll down and find Refraction, click on the button that says None. When you have done that, find and open the Maps tab.

Change them: Specular Level to 160 and Glossiness to 30. When that is done, look down and find the Specular Highlights tab. As the window opens, make sure to go to Modes and change it to Compact Material Editor. Open up the Material Editor at the top of the main stage. However, for the glass itself, you can create a Glass texture which can make it seem more believable. DonвЂ™t forget to add the light source, to give more of a realistic touch to the object. When you have done that, apply your textures to the assigned areas. The Hourglass is now complete! Do the UVW Maps, and texture them. Repeat and do the same for the bottom Cylinder. Right click again, with the newly made polygon selected, and press the black box next to Extrude. Change the amount to 2.0, this will give the object another polygon in the middle of the top half. Right click, and select the black box which is next to Inset. We are going to add more detail to the top. Select the top stand, right click it and Convert To > Editable Polygon. This feels like it gives more character to the hourglass itself. Shift click, and add two more away from the original that you have created. This will be used to hold up the stands, and keep the glass in place in the middle. Change the parameters: Radius to 1.5, Height to 103.0, and Sides to 10. This will make the top and bottom rests for the hour glass to stand on. Make sure to move the cylinders into place. Hold down shift and use the Move Tool to move and copy the cylinder shape which you have made and move that on top of the hour glass object. Make another cylinder, this time change the parameters: Width to 25.0, Height to -5.0, and Height Segments to 1.0. This will draw in the mid section of the hourglass itself. Select the scale tool, after selecting the middle Polygons, and scale down using the mid section of the scale. This is where the shape will draw in when you start pulling it in with the scale tool. Begin to select the middle Polygons of the Cylinder itself, this will start to make a rainbow effect on the splines. Tick the box which says Use Soft Selection and change the Fall Off amount to 20. Go down and open the tab which says Soft Selection. From here, go to the right side menu and choose Polygon Selection from the Selection tab. Right click the object itself, and Convert To > Editable Poly. Change the Parameters: Radius to 20.0, Height to 100.0, Height Segments to 10 and Sides to 20.

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