Face-Weighted Vertex Normals- Vid tut for beginners

musashidan

I thought I'd link this here for posterity. It's a basic summary of the FWVN thread on here by @Obscura (referenced in the vid) for those who wilt at walls of text.....

It's demoed in Max/UE but the principles are universal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kizs6RIa1dQ

Obscura

Shorter version of mine for those people:
I have bevel,
 I have script...

AAAAAA...

FACE WEIGTED VERTEX NORMALS


sry.  

Cool vid by the way!

musashidan

@obscura well your thread did inspire the vid. This is the video explanation generation after all....

cptSwing

Well, you did succeed in making me move to your normal-weighting script, though (away from SyncViews' pioneering solution)

musashidan

@cptSwing nice one. That script is my favourite of all the ones I've tried.

monster

I wish that Data Channel mod could modify normals. Then we could just have a modifier that updates as we work. 

musashidan

@monster Yes, this and your chamfer example are 2 things that I looked into when I first messed around with the DC mod.
I see from the other thread that you've looked into the possibility already.

cptSwing

Maybe it's something they could include with future updates? Hint-hint, you beta users

cptSwing

Anybody in the know whether the updates to DC and/or MCG in 2018 have changed anything with regards to creating a live-updating FWN modifier?

monster

No change.

musashidan

cptSwing said:

Maybe it's something they could include with future updates? Hint-hint, you beta users

You know we can't talk about that........

cptSwing

monster  said:

No change.

Cheers monster, tis a shame.

musashidan  said:
You know we can't talk about that........

Hah, is that you getting my hopes up? Everything tumbling down the black hole that is ADSK is soooo slooooow.... I'll expect it by August 2020 then. ;/

lumbabumba

Hi, I love this and thank you for it. There are a lot of tutorials about this topic but no one of them show how to unwrap this stuff. Can someone help me here?