Beretta 87 Lets "Wrap" this up.

Shadow2Matrix

Hey everyone, I have seen this model done before. I am almost completed with mine. I have this high poly pistol grip that I would like to wrap around the gun handle. You will see an extrusion on the handle that I would like to wrap or cut some of this up on. Now I thought about cutting it and then using an FFD box but it seems annoyingly tedious and wanted to know if you guys have any techniques on how to wrap this up.  I will bake most of this, but for the sake of the high poly looking nice, I would like to somehow properly do this. Reference pic is provided as well. There are a few other things you will notice like, I have some missing serations but I will get to those and the safety is a block out now that needs to be redone. Any feedback would be great if the approach I have in mind is proper or not. I can FFD the whole thing but it will probably rescale things unevenly. So thats why I come to you all. Thank you!REFERENCE of course... and the last pic an extrusion for handle is present, barely visible though.

Sajeet

i would bake the knurl pattern separetly and copy paste it in photoshop on the normalmap :P but someone else have probably better tips for you and if it just going to be a highpoly with all the detail i really cant help you

Shadow2Matrix

@Sajeet
Thank you for the advice. I am going to bake this to a low but it would be nice to also have a complete highpoly which is why I posted.

Mossbros

There's a few ways, the first being to FFD it into the rough shape then boolean it and extrude the edges into the mesh. 
Another similar way would be to do that but using Slideknit rather than FFD for the form then boolean it once again. 
https://simonfuchs.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/tutorial-adding-detail-to-your-highpoly-objects-using-the-slideknit-script/





Then you take the knurling and put it where you want.



And A video if it's still too vague. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclIjqFKkr0

Shadow2Matrix

@Mossbros
JUST WOW. This is that info that I need. I had no Idea this even existed. I have to try it out asap. So when you said pro boolean, I dont know why it didnt occur to me to use it, I tried it and it worked splendid! What I ended up doing was taking the faces of the grip that I wanted and making a new seprate mesh out of them, then I used pro boolean and placed the new grip mesh back in. I must say now seeing this slideknit enables new things to be done that I couldnt so easily have done before. I will definitely try this on something else and add to my bad of tricks. I appreciate you!