Circular Window Wall Trouble

kimchee519

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 circular window or really round assets like the window without killing to many polys and still making it look good. My first attempt at the block out circle window came out pretty deceiving, an tips or ideas?

Synaesthesia

What perna said is great advice. Those verts are vaguely round. You could just apply geopoly after you've capped the hole (assuming you're a Max user), but that doesn't always give a great result in my experience. I'd recommend putting a cylinder in there that's flush with the verts and matching them up to it, or simply starting over by booleaning or whatever your preferred method of cutting a hole like that would be.

Autarkis

@syn, he's a maya user.
Like it was mentioned, either boolean a cylinder in there, or just place one and match the verts to it, or in the latest versions of maya, you could create a nurbs circle, project it on your place, and split the plane with the curve.

repete

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKEI1EgWvQ"]How to make a hole/circle in Maya 2013 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtncTvmQJc"]Cutting circular holes into polygon meshes while maintaining good topology - YouTube[/ame]


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kimchee519

Thanks guys the feedback helped out a lot!