New to 3ds Max Barrel lesson barrel not evenly round on both ends

[Anonymous]

I got a course on 3ds max on udemy. The current section I am in is creating a barrel.

I am unhappy with my barrel upon further inspection all my barrle on bottom are perfectily round but the top is not. The lesson uses a background image as help. In the lesson I use the line tool than make it thicker and generate mapping coords. I am holding shift to make line straight. Why is that the top is not round but the botttom is?

[ekahennequet]

It appears to me that you missed selecting two small polys in your selection of the "top" side. It seems that Renderable Splines create cylinders this way when converting to Editable Poly. In sub-obj Edge mode, select the two edges and choose "Remove" or hit the Backspace key. Cylinder Primitive object, Loft Compound object, Sweep modifier are also available as options for this type of modeling as a starting point.