Hard surface issue

Syzero

Because i am not getting any response, and i want to finish this asap i will open a thread. Sorry about that.

http://postimg.org/image/y2qv8jhpt/full/
I tried to model this for 3-4 days, whatever i try i always have some issues with the mesh
Especially the circle in red (the hole) and the red arrows.

Any help pls

tehrobster2

Can you show us what you have so far and what you are having problems with ?

Neox

whats your plan with this? if you just bake it onto a lowpoly, i would just float the panels and panellines. while it is a nice task to cut these in, and knowing how to do it is crucial. from a productionstandpoint floaters will be SO much quicker in these.

for the circle shape just check the "how are you modelling these shapes" thread, this has been covered tons of times

Syzero

I don't have anything so far modeled that thing. I am trying anything what i know.
Neox, do you think i should make this with Zbrush, and place a normal map on low poly?

But i want to know to the hell to cut it properly

http://postimg.org/image/4iw8f48z7/full/

This is my today attempt to do it.
I want the red lines to be hard edges
when i smooth, if i put edges there, it is pinched there.

yamunaftw

because nobody wants to really help this guy I will. It was a pretty easy fix and I will post this to help somebody else having this issue. First you add supporting edges(duh),now so you don't get pinching you need to get rid of most of them by connecting them with your primary edge like in this picture ( http://imgur.com/oyIfGWd ). Then you need to delete the supporting edges like in this pic( http://imgur.com/nrzruFr ). After than you should get rezult similar like this ( http://imgur.com/ma57CnG )which is still not done. You'll get a nasty pinching that will go away only if you add more polys ( Add Polygons to Smooth Mesh). After you done that you should play with the vertices until you get something like this ( http://imgur.com/ppliJzr ) Note that you should do this final step only when you are done with everything else because adding more polys can result in problems on other places. This is done as a test so don't expect to be perfect.
Yamuna.

EarthQuake

Check out this thread, it covers this an many similar issues: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014

Also, post an example of what you've tried. It's very hard to give advice, other than simply modeling the entire thing and writing you a tutorial (few people have time for this), if you don't show what you've tried.

Syzero

here is example
http://postimg.org/image/58f2l3nqn/

I am trying to do a more hard at the edges with red circle.
How to do that?

a3D

Actually this is a more interesting question than it might seem at first sight. I've been trying to find a solution not involving manual tweaking of verts and/or obscene amounts of geometry, and for now I haven't been able to get rid of minor pinching.

Neox

No zbrush needed on this one. It might be quicker at first glance but most likely not cleaner.

In your case, to avoid the pinching you will just need more geometry to create this shape

But really this has been covered dozens, if not hundreds of times in the thread we mentioned

Mogul

maybe its not perfect but you can try adding some edge with multicut tool and weld some edges. little bit tricky but its all quads.










i agree with earthquake. check that thread and try to recreate some object for exercise. maybe its kinda hard for the first time.just dont give up

Syzero

Thanks Mogul, i did it. I was not sure about the topology and how to do it with less poly. I am working with Maya.