Unless they're using some sort of voodoo that shouldn't be possible, the shapes quite literally cannot merge like that without disturbing the linear angle of the sides taper, it's not a matter of topology. If you have some better reference though I'd be glad to give it another spin. To answer your other question, the steps…
Yeah subd requires a twisted evil mind (no wonder why perna excels at it) , less intuitive than zbrush or booleans for defining shapes. Zbrush comes to a point where doing a hard surface mockup is as fast as subd, kinda like boolean. Not forced to focus on shape and topology at the same time. I don't see cheating here,…
Thank you but already been answered. But here is another one. I decided to model this (for practicing sub-d.) How i tried to model the base: 1. (: 2. 3. 4. Divide on the segments seen here 5. Interpolation on 0 to get a low poly base mesh for sub-d. 6. And the result. The black one is the failed subdivided poly, the white…
Hey, there's some objects that I'd like to know how you usually model it? Sometime creating such sub-d objects not rely in making evenly-sharp hardedge but also transition between surfaces and the way buildup base one. 1. A vase with triangular top face, circular middle section, and square bottom face. 2. A shape transform…
Spline Controlled Cylindrical Holes This is intended not only to make the high poly look good but to also help ray tracing produce a normal map that picks up as many details as possible. 1. Create a cylinder with 12 sides and delete the end caps. 2. Using angle snaps in front view, rotate until one face is visible directly…
Thanks for the quick reply ! Yeah I've tried that already, its a great trick, you can use 2 or more of the bend modifiers to make a spherical shape as well. The shape I'm doing is a small section of a bigger sphere object. just bending it 1 direction doesn't work out. ( since its not spherical) (will need to try the FFD…
:shrug: why not. The secondary images show where I built one object, then didn't like the shading on the transition from bevel to flat side, so I added some control edges. And just for giggles I built the front faces of one with nurbs to see how much better or worse it would be for this object than sub-d. Geo 1 has the…
@ himadri_sm Kind of a weird shape but the steps to make this is pretty simple and short. I'm using 3ds max but any app should have similar tools to do this.. 1. create two objects, one with a sharp corner and another with the desired curve.. you'll want to maintain the same proportions, edge distances and number of…
Generally from my experience, the edit poly stack is both a blessing and a curse in that it allows you to go back like a group undo if you dislike the changes you made to your model, but as you continue stacking the edit poly, its like building a house out of sand. My model gets destroyed (w/o being able to undo) and…
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/sketchbooks/9770-glynn-smith-do-not-look-2.html A bit of a necro-reply, but I figured I'd chime in :) The cushions were pretty straight-forward. Just make a planar with a bunch of cuts in it, then rotate it 45 degrees and start dragging your points with soft-selection or whatever. The…