Circle Window Wall Asset

kimchee519

What's up guys, I'm working on a new environment and one of my walls has a circular window. I was looking for some help on going about creating the circle window or really round assets like the window without killing to many polys and still making it look good. My first attempt at a block out of the circle window came out pretty deceiving, an tips or ideas?

RobeOmega

In max is there anything where you can turn verts and make them more spherical?

ansh0488

there are 20 segments in there. take a cylinder with 20 segments, put it in the center, and snap each vertex of the round part, with the cylinder's vertex. you will get a perfect circle that way..

SpeedyB

In Max you can select all the verts around the edge of the opening and add a spherify modifier. Then collapse your object back down to editable poly.

KartoonHead

If you're having trouble putting a circular hole in a flat plane then you should probably head on over to somewhere like http://cg.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/ and do some free beginner modelling tuts.

KristaW

Hey kimchee! So I can show you how I would make a circle on a plane but there might be better more efficient ways. Hope you can read this okay let me know if you have questions. And sorry if any of this stuff is stuff you already know >.< Figured I would include every step just in case.


Step01:
I shift right click, making sure no object is selected, and I choose Maya's procedural poly cylinder. It comes default with 20 sides but you can change this, if you like, in the channel box or attribute editor.

Step02:
I delete the end caps.

Step03:
After selecting the edge I shift right click over it to bring up the marking menu with extrude edge and extrude outwards.

Step04:
I grab the verts that I want to be the top of my wall and switch to scale.

Step05:
I use the scale tool going back and forth until it forms a straight line. Does that make sense? Not sure about how to put that part into words.

Step06:
More the same

Step07:
I delete the rest of the cylinder that I don't need anymore.

Step08:
Optimization time. In vertex mode I select a vertex and shift right click to bring up a marking menu with merge vertex > merge vertex tool.

Step09:
I use merge vertex tool by dragging a vert towards the one I want to merge it with.

kimchee519

Thanks KristaW !

WarrenM

This newly released script pack has a script that will do exactly what you're asking for (Round'Em)...

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125424&highlight=miauu

It's not free, but it's WELL worth the money.