Copying detail of curves into another part of the mesh?

Elarionus

I'm trying to model a door similar to this one that I found:



I really like how there are outsets that mimic the curvature of the center circle, but I'm struggling to replicate that in 3DS max. I used a Boolean to cut the hole out, but I don't know how to perfectly match the curve like that. How might I go about doing it? Thanks!

Eric Chadwick

Show your shaded lowpoly wireframe, and your shaded high poly.

Elarionus

Eric Chadwick said:

Show your shaded lowpoly wireframe, and your shaded high poly.

I don't have one, this isn't my work. I'm attempting to make this door for practice, and I'm stuck on how to get the matching curved outsets...

Mark Dygert

It really depends on what it looks like and how the edges are flowing. If you've bool'ed it there might be a lot of problems that could block you from working cleanly. 

Off the top of my head, I would just select some faces and bevel them, or inset then bevel. There are half a dozen ways to make it work but without seeing it, its hard to say which one would work best.

Elarionus

Mark Dygert said:

It really depends on what it looks like and how the edges are flowing. If you've bool'ed it there might be a lot of problems that could block you from working cleanly. 

Off the top of my head, I would just select some faces and bevel them, or inset then bevel. There are half a dozen ways to make it work but without seeing it, its hard to say which one would work best.

I understand out to get that much at least, it was just mostly to be able to match the curve of the little chunk that's taken out.

Mark Dygert

With a tool called Inset or you can use bevel.

Elarionus

Mark Dygert said:

With a tool called Inset or you can use bevel.

Oh my gosh, I never thought about it retaining my edge flow. @_@ I feel so stupid. Thanks for the video and your time.