# Question about swift3D

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**Created:** [October 24, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149 "2002-10-24T16:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Rockstar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rockstar)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149/1 "2002-10-24T16:33:00Z")

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Hi  
I just bought the v.3  
and have some question,

How to make your text [or object] looke chrome?  
I applied metal material to it, but it didn’t work, as if I applied a flat colour.

and lets say if you have a square and you want to cut it only 1/4 of it, how do you do that? does swift 3d has ability to crop objects as well as any other 3D software?

thank you very much

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149/2 "2002-10-31T09:40:06Z")

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I only have V2 so I’m not sure if all this applies.

As far as chrome goes, I’ve found that speculative colors, with highlights and shadows turned on, can produce chrome looking effects if the lights are positioned correctly. It takes some playing around though. The objects are vector drawn though, so keep that in mind. The objects will never look really chrome, just metalic.

In V2 you couldn’t cut a quarter out of a square. I would take 7 squares, position them in place so that it looked like a chunk was taken out of a single square, then grouped them together.

If you’re looking to do serious cut away 3D modeling, and wire mesh 3D modeling, then you should look into getting a copy of 3DSmax or something equivilant. It also has great metal, glass, and gassious effects. As far as I know, Swift3D don’t do that yet. (like I said though, I haven’t seen V3 yet)

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149/3 "2002-10-31T15:28:42Z")

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Heyy David  
thanks for the reply 🙂 helps me alot… 🙂  
I should have tried 3dsmax, do they have a plug-in for flash?

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149/4 "2002-10-31T22:54:50Z")

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3dsmax cost money. try gmax. its made by same company but its free.  
and these programs are way more complicated

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-swift3d/7149/5 "2002-11-08T16:18:59Z")

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Did U press render after draging a material?  
I prefer raster to vector! In vector mode colours are different!