Open the UVW Editor, hold CTRL and select each of the Poly’s on the shield on the stage. This bakes in the actions you have created. When you are happy with what you have done, right click the shape and Convert To > Editable Poly. When you are doing this, make sure the move tool is selected. Click and drag over the ‘4’ in the middle and pull them out with the Z Axis. Click the ‘+’ button and choose the control points. Click the ‘Editable Poly’ in the ‘Sub Object’ mode and then click on the Modifier List and choose FFD 4x4x4. After this is done, hold shift and drag back the X Axis, bringing the shield out even more. This will light up the edge of the shield’s shape. Now that you have shaped the Plane into a shield, go to ‘Sub Object’ mode and select ‘Boarder’. Moving through the shields points, select all the points from the middle section and scale through the x axis so that the shield begins to take form in 3D. Select and Scale the middle top and the middle bottom so that the top of the morphed Plane is touching the reference picture of the shield. Use the ‘Scale Tool’, which can be selected on the top bar of the main window, and scale the Plane so that the sides are touching the shield. Select everything, ‘CTRL+A’, then use the move tool on your Plane, align the Center Line with the Shield. Then in the ‘Sub Object’ mode, select ‘Vertex’. Right click the Plane again and select Convert To > Editable Poly. Give the Plane 6 Segments for length by 4 Segments for width. There will be a box prompt come up, click OK. Right click the Plane you created go to Object Properties > See Through. Press F4 to show the edges of the shape. This Plane will be modelled into the shape of the shield. In the keyboard entry, write in the same measurements as you did for the other Plane. Create another Plane, the same way you created the other. After doing that, right click again and untick ‘Show Frozen in Grey’. Right click the Plane you created and go to Object Properties > Freeze Object. Now move the Plane with the ‘Move’ tool and move the Plane back on the Y axis, so we can start with the next phase. This will be a guideline for what we are about to do. After it is loaded, place the texture onto the plane. Go to the ‘Material Editor’ and load the texture you had saved earlier. This will turn off the grid on the scene. In the keyboard entry section of the Plane, put 48w and 60h. Make a ‘Plane’ by going to the right hand side modifier bar, click the little ‘sun’ icon then click on the ‘Plane’ button. Save the image and make sure you can find it later. Grab a reference image for the shield that you would like to create.

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