Sub'd ready on cylinders: Issues-_-

MatthewS

Alright so I'm doing the high poly of a shotgun with a extending stock, and I ran into a problem... When I try to put in control edges for indents on a cylinder it gives me a crease, and I can't figure a way to get it to work without some kind of shading error when I sub'd it...



(As you can see I need a control edge above the topmost row of indents.)

I have the .obj up in filefront

and my reference image can be found here.


Any ideas?

Ben Apuna

One way is to start off with more edges in your cylinder.

See this thread:

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=56014

Or try something like this:

http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=855848&postcount=92

Hope that helps.

EDIT:

This is what I mean by starting out with more edges on your cylinder.

MatthewS

Thx @ Apuna

alright so I kinda get how I can do it... but now I have another question


If I were to have inset the polygons before extruding them inward, and then cut the controls like in your examples, would it be ok still? or do I need enough sides to accommodate the controls as well?


I'll try it next time I hop on the gun but not tonight...

also if anyone has other ideas I'd like to hear them.

Ben Apuna

Right now even if you were to inset those polygons before extruding inward using the method I pointed to by EarthQuake, you would probably still need to start off with a few extra edges to maintain the overall roundness of your large cylinder shape just like in EarthQuakes' example.