Modelling help needed

ShadowFox

Hey guys once again ive encountered a problem which im struggling to fix. Im trying to cut the triangle shape socket around the eyes into the body (the half sphere shape)

Although after trying boolean, or attempting to cut the shape specifically with connecting and vertex placement it doesnt seem to give a nice clean finish when i attemp to sub-d it.





Im just hoping that someone has tips or a technique to cut these types of shapes into other shapes. Any help would be great! or even the possibility to show how to clean a booleaned cut object.

The desired effect im trying to gain is that the triangle shape will be a socket for the eye's so will be indented into the half sphere body.

Cheers.

ShadowFox

Anything? Just really dying to get back on that peice, its stumped me and im getting into creating this object!

xduckmanx

So from what i understand you want to take the piece you have set in front the model but as an inset into the head?

onionhead_o

Hope this helps



note: u should align the horizontal lines to the triangular shape when ur cutting. also make sure vertex snap is turn on for accuracy.

ShadowFox

Cheers for taking the time to put that together onion, im just wondering did you create the spline separately then somehow cut it into the shape or did you actually use the cut tool and carve the shape out yourself on the actual sphere face?

Heres what ive got so far, reckon its pretty solid?

onionhead_o

i cut the spline into the sphere. wut u have there is pretty good.

ShadowFox

Awesome, cheers for the help onion.

ShadowFox

Instead of having to make a new thread, ill re use this one, its probably a simple newbie mistake but for some reason, whenever I create an object such as a cube or sphere it will create it and an angle and not perfectly straight on the axis, its only started happening recently which means ive tapped something i shouldnt have.

how is it you stop this from happening? in 3ds max this is.

onionhead_o

are you talking bout autogrid function where you create the object on a surface instead of the grid

ShadowFox

you were correct, it seems I missed a hidden autogrid somewhere! Deleted the troublesome thing and all is good!

Cheers again onion!

ShadowFox

Another more informational bit of advice that i need about THE GRID AND ITS UNITS!!

Reading up about implementing peices across engines and easy work in max, the grid is a key factor, im wondering how, as items arent always 256*256 or so on, how this works.

Are movements based on mainly doing 4*2, etc or can you say, do 256 + 128. My maths is pretty shoddy to say the least, but the grid system really throws my mind when trying to consider the placement and size of objects as nothing is perfectly sized with another.

Ive searched about but nothing really points out the methods or being able to place objects yet still abide by the laws of the grid system.

Eric Chadwick

This page has some great points about working on a grid.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/WorkflowAndModularity.html

superpolygon

Wait a sec..............so you can cut a spline shape into a model? Can someone tell me how please, I have to move around the verts and edges in to the shape I need and it looks horrible and takes a long time. The spline technique sounds amazing.

onionhead_o

basically u line up the spline to the model u want to cut. than u turn on vertex snap and start using the cut tool to follow the spline. one thing u should keep in mind is that there should be enough loops or edges for u to cut . u want the loops on the object to match up with the vertex on the spline.