[blender] I am making a hard surface hp model and I want to intersect/emboss.

oraeles77

its somesort of eletrical cabinet box.

currently Im working with a sub suf modifer, I assume I must apply the sub surf then join the 2 meshes together.

can someone explain how to intersect the two objects in a way which wont make lots of ugly vertices etc? (I've done lots of intersecting before but I'd thought I'd ask here , as its higher poly and want to avoid bad artifacts. and I want to do in a professional way,)

obviously I could just scale the letters to the correct size/locatin, and then just intersect them justing the knife thing and then delete the uneeded faces, but Im sure it would a bit shit.

thank you.

oraeles77

does this look OK or as usual am I commiting some sort of sin?

its for a highpoly for baking remember.

ant1fact

If it's for baking, then just use the letters as floating geometry

oraeles77

ant1fact said:

If it's for baking, then just use the letters as floating geometry

but floating geometry is ok if they are above the surifce but these ones are sunken into it.

(not sure if embossed was the correct word)

Mink

Nothing really matyers if its a high poly for baking.

ant1fact

oraeles77 said:

ant1fact said:

If it's for baking, then just use the letters as floating geometry

but floating geometry is ok if they are above the surifce but these ones are sunken into it.

(not sure if embossed was the correct word)

Floaters are just fine here, believe me. Here's a hint for you

oraeles77

ant1fact said:

oraeles77 said:

ant1fact said:

If it's for baking, then just use the letters as floating geometry

but floating geometry is ok if they are above the surifce but these ones are sunken into it.

(not sure if embossed was the correct word)

Floaters are just fine here, believe me. Here's a hint for you

hey ant1fact , thanks for taking the time to reply etc, I assume I would have to increase the bias/distance correctly but it would be included, next time I will save a lot of time and do it your way.

infact I tried some similar stuff a year ago and someone was suggesting I flip some of the normals to see what effects happen, which bizarrely worked.