Workshop # 1- alexl

alexl

My workflow is slow and sloppy so I'm looking forward to learning something hopefully.
I started with this thing, no idea if it actually has a name but it has screws in it.

I started modelling with a single plane and moved vertices to match the silohuette of the object from the front and side views, added edge loops to the 2 sides and bottom to keep edges sharp when turbosmoothing, cut 8 sided circles into the side and started cutting and connecting verts and edges to keep everything in quads, I then added a symmetry modifier, flattened the stack and then started messing with the other side. Once it was looking alright added a shell modifier, flattened the stack and adjusted some more.



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Vrav

Sexy beveling on those larger holes. Nice workflow as well; Silo needs a shell option! *envy*

ericleekessler

what's the best way to make those circle cuts in the mesh? booleans + cleanup? Have always wondered that (Mainly use maya, thought I'd add that in there )

Ihazard

ericleekessler wrote: »

what's the best way to make those circle cuts in the mesh? booleans + cleanup? Have always wondered that (Mainly use maya, thought I'd add that in there )

What I did was create the outside with plane shift-extruding, then boolean the holes out, then you can use a shell modifier with the inner amount set to the right amount, then add edge loops on the inside of the circles.

EarthQuake

Usually what i tend to do is this:



A good thing to think about is the # of sides you're going to use for your cylinder, and plan that before you start.

alexl

Nice method Earthquake, looks like a cleaner way to start things then what I did.

ericleekessler wrote: »

what's the best way to make those circle cuts in the mesh? booleans + cleanup? Have always wondered that (Mainly use maya, thought I'd add that in there )

I did my circle cuts by placing an 8 sided circle spline behind the plane that I wanted a hole in, turned on snap to vertex and started cutting into the plane following the shape of the circle. Required cleaning up afterwards though.



Real interesting seeing all the different methods people use and what have you floating around now, good stuff.

ericleekessler

very interesting method EarthQuake, I like, seems quick clean and to the point and nice work so far alexl!

alexl

My update for the day, really interesting thing to model this panel, took me awhile.



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mdeforge

Earthquake, I guess I never understood the difference between MeshSmooth and TurboSmooth. I see your using MeshSmooth there, but would TurboSmooth hurt at all? I think Maya just calls it Sub-D right? I've never used it before. Sub-D in Max just tesselates it.

EarthQuake

AFAIK in max, turbo/mesh are just different methods for the same thing, i think one may be faster than the other. Silly legacy max stuff? There are atleast 3 ways to turn on sub-d in max, so i dont really know if any of them have real differences visually.

Maya has like 3 was to turn on sub-d too, smooth preview, mesh -> smooth, and "smooth proxy".

In modo all you do is hit tab to turn it on/off.

Vrav

And in Silo it's just c and v to go up and down in sub-d levels, though there is a toggle like modo too. Never understood why Max doesn't just call it what it is...

Andreas

I really like yours Alex, well put together. No crits really.

alexl

I think I'm almost done, might do the text engravings, might not.



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SHEPEIRO

EarthQuake wrote: »

AFAIK in max, turbo/mesh are just different methods for the same thing, i think one may be faster than the other. Silly legacy max stuff? There are atleast 3 ways to turn on sub-d in max, so i dont really know if any of them have real differences visually.

Maya has like 3 was to turn on sub-d too, smooth preview, mesh -> smooth, and "smooth proxy".

In modo all you do is hit tab to turn it on/off.

your missing out convert to sub'd there which is the most powerfull of the bunch