hard-surface subd question

[Deleted User]

I'm trying to learn hard-surface modeling in max with Turbosmooth. My question is pretty much what the image says. Is there a better way to do this so that it doesn't pinch that way around the outside?

MoP

Yeah, instead of bevelling/chamfering the thing in, run a loop all the way around the top and bottom and sides so you have a quad on each corner. Will try to put an image together shortly if you need it.

Joseph Silverman

Why not just float the whole thing? Clone the faces you want to extrude from into a seperate object and extrude from *that*, topology issues shouldn't be a factor? You could even float a third 'trim' element over it to smooth the transition.

Assuming this is for normal mapping, of course.

[Deleted User]

I thought about floating it, but I think I'd get the same smoothing issue on the floated piece anyway. Or not. I'll try that too.

I'm not sure if I did this right or not...

[Deleted User]

Cool! I tried it with a denser cage, and that made it a whole lot easier. Between that, the quad-cornered loops, and floating a lot of stuff, it's making a lot more sense to me. Thanks guys!:thumbup: