Creating diagonal extrusions

JoBritt

Hey all, I have been rattling my brain trying to figure out how to go about making a red diagonal lines and wanted to see if maybe any of yall had any suggestions. I am using 3ds max for modeling and zbrush for sculpting. I will attach a clip of the concept i am working from:

Swordslayer

You'd use shortcuts but this way with global search input, it's more descriptive (add invert selection and convert edge selection to poly selection after dot loop + ring). Starting with evenly subdivided geometry:

musashidan

There is also a 'generate topology' tool in Graphite that will do this procedurally.

Swordslayer

musashidan said:

There is also a 'generate topology' tool in Graphite that will do this procedurally.

*in a similar way but hidden behind a button I believe what it does is inset by poly, collapse those inset faces, remove original edges (you'd get the same selection if you selected all the edges before insetting faces). So it gives slightly different results (edgedirection topo left, connect + remove right):

musashidan

@swordslayer I'll leave the technical stuff to you, mate. I'm just a button-pusher. But thanks for the info.

JoBritt

@Swordslayer Sorry for the late reply, i have been with family but thank you, i will give that a go tonight! Are you using 3ds max or maya in your gif?

JoBritt

Also @musashidan, thank you for the Graphite information also, i am going to be looking into more of that tonight as well!