Round headed Bolts, how to model that?

Gazu

Hi PCs!

Whats the best way to model a Round headed bolt both for highpoly and lowpoly use?


I Cant get rid of this flat spot on the bolt.
How do you guys model that?
A schoolmate showed me a technique but i forget how he is doing this.

Here the LowPoly:


Greetings
Gazu

Vertrucio

Pull the center out along the normal.

Although honestly, just make a sphere, squash it, then cut it in half.

Gazu

Sphere cutted in the middle

mike670

Make a equal length box, turbosmooth it, slice in half. Scale as needed.

Gazu

Works fine for HighPoly.
With 4 or 5 Iterations i get a nice sphere.
But this method is only to use with HighPoly,right?

So how would you do the LowPoly of this?
Turbosmooth with 1 Iteration?

mike670

Yea you could do that or do the low with the cut sphere, and if it is small enough you could just bake it onto the surface it is mounted on. Try them out and see what bakes the best with the lowest tri count.

JustMeSR

What about this:

Bek

You might find this page useful:

http://wiki.polycount.net/SphereTopology

SuperFranky

There's also a "Spherify" modifier in 3ds Max for these purposes.