Illustrator novice here trying something new and flailing.
What i'm trying to do is to mock up an ez-up tent (example below) with a photograph as artwork. I don't need all of the nuance of the draping and lighting. I figured I'd just stack a pyramid on top of a box and map some textures to them.
First up, I dug around and figured out the way to do a pyramid is to add a 45 degree line symbol to the bevel.ai file and use that. It "works", but unfortunately, this crashes CS5.1 on my machine pretty regularly. So, first question would be if someone could mail me a 3d pyramid AI file or a different way to do it so it doesn't crash?
Next, I want to map art to it, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that and get it to look right (again, I'm dealing with crashes)
The other thing I tried to do was simply free transform a couple of triangles to meet the anchors on the tent illustration. That works fine for vectors, but when I have an image+clipping mask, free transform only seems to affect the clipping mask.
This is just a loose mockup, not trying to win special effects artist of 2013 or anything. I'm sure there's a dozen ways to try this, but between the crashing and failures, I figured I'd ask the experts out there. There's got to be an easy way to get an approximate result here.
Thanks in advance.
