Help With Poly flow

Martizz1e · Apr 2010

im trying to make this high poly screw, but im not sure how to get good poly flow for the turbo smooth. mainly in the area around the holes.

Will Faucher · Apr 2010

Have you tried smooth my smoothing groups? Setting your smoothing groups correctly is a crucial factor when turbosmoothing.

Master_v12 · Apr 2010

Nah this is not a prob with smoothing groups. You have a six sided polygon because of those edges coming from the chamfer towards the top are ending abruptly. Follow them thru to the bottom of the model and you should be straight.

Yamo · Apr 2010

edit: Actually I'm an idiot and you dont really need those edges, but you do need to fix the circled area. The supporting edges that you have coming up from the + groove should continue at least to the next loop

Martizz1e · Apr 2010

thought about that, but when i turbo smooth i get this:

and that doesnt work either because then it hardens my circle which i was trying to keep

Martizz1e · Apr 2010

@yamo, this is what i got when i did what you originally said, will try what you said in your edit (you mean continue it to that very next loop after the bevel right?)

Yamo · Apr 2010

Martizz1e · Apr 2010

thanks dude, i turned the smoothing upto 3 and it seems better, still not perfect, with a little shading issues on the sides

yiannisk · Apr 2010

you have created a bad situation there.

and as suggested use smoothing groups and\or creasing

staticcurve · Apr 2010

use bevels man and work in all quads. It's the only way to get decent results. The idea is pretty simple. when smoothing out a lowpoly mesh, anywhere that has a quick interpolation between one angle to the other, or a hard angle into a smooth curve you need geometry to support that transition. this image isn't perfect by any means but it does illustrate the point im trying to make. if you are going to smooth an edge you need to reinforce that edge with another that is close to it. If you are going to blend between a smooth and hard surface you need to guide the geometry with extra edges that blend into the curve.

Delerium · Apr 2010

Here is my take on it in 3ds max

yiannisk · Apr 2010

yup i think this last one is the best approach.

you keep it clean and chamfer the edges you need "rounded" then turbosmooth.

here's another just for the heck of it

Martizz1e · Apr 2010

thanks for all the ideas guys, ill post what i got when i get something to my liking

ManxViking · Apr 2010

This is a video tutorial off the "how u model dem shapes?" thread, by bitmap, it's modo I think but it's the process that's the point. I found it useful, could be worth a look

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http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=900468&postcount=281

Help With Poly flow

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