Strata Metaballs?

Can anyone help me with this? Wtf do metaballs do and how do you ue them?

Thanks 😄

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Metaballs in strata are used to create realistic looking organic shapes by grouping sphere like shapes together

To create a metaball shape simply create more than one shpherical shape and place them almost next to each other, Then highlight both shapes an click on the metaball icon on the floating pallete and it will create a metaball shape
This will only work with spheres although you can make them any length and width wou like

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That ship is mostly made using metaballs, though in POV-Ray rather than Strata. Specifically, the basic head shape, the body, and the wing membranes were all made using metaballs.

I hope this helps answer your question of what metaballs do.

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Thanks guys 🙂 I am now constructing a Freighter of mostly metaballs. I'll see if I can post it sometime 😄

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The Glue Bubble ship was made of metaballs... if theGlueBubble is still around I'm sure he can post a link for you...

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