Colt 1911 - Rear slide

Kowalski

Hi, i'm modelling the Colt 1911 and i have a problem with this area..
I tried to add support edges but i got a terible pinching.
Can someone give me a tip how to smooth this?

echofourpapa

I like using Max's Quad Chamfer for this:






And it subdivides nicely like this:

Kowalski

Thanks!!...i'm amazed how perfectly it worked (or i'm blind and i don't see pinching )





edit..
Wireframe:

echofourpapa

Glad I could help.

I can't find the video tutorial for this(the link is somewhere hear on Polycount), but you if you are going to be baking out a normal map you might want to make those edges softer. Softer edged give a more pronounce normal bake, so when the texture mips to lower resolution(meaning from a distance) it still retains the rounded look.

Kowalski

Thanks for the tip.
I knew about that baking, but i am facing a problem, because i realized i have to "chamfer" these edges:


Should i chamfer them as first or After i chamfered that outter edge?

edit: I know i am annoying but i couldn't find any (free) tutorial on this.

echofourpapa

I usually try to chamfer them along with the other ones. But in cases I forget or miss you can recover.

Weld the inner corners to their middle verts:




An optional step is to realign your verts:



And then just chamfer the new loops:





There might be an easier way, but this is ho I do it.

Kowalski

I had it like this..but you still have that NGON right here:

echofourpapa

Yeah. On hi-poly I don't normally worry about it, and on low poly I probably don't have chamfered geo, so. Meh.

Kowalski

Aah....so i bothered with these ""ngons"" for nothing but thanks. good to know, i was affraid if it could have some affect on a bake..or something
aand yes. of course you don't have chamfered edges on Low poly