nkwinder: You're looking at the wrong tutorials then. ;) This is fast and crappy paint over, but isolate a repeating pattern on the tire and just model that. It should be able to be equally divided in 360deg. (See PINK section) Also, in your case you need to make sure you can offset the pattern by 1/2 its with and it will…
Wow, thanks for all the answers :) Got another problem. For a Tutorial, where I am modeling a Watch, there is a Step I can't complete -.- This is a Piece with Mirror Modifier on it. I had to delete the Front face like here: Step 1 Step 2 After this step, I have to create the Faces in this area, but my subsurf won't work…
Hi! I've modeled this control panel piece that needed to have some specific button placement. I managed to achieve a working result without any noticeable shading errors at the distance/target we are aiming for, but, while it works, Im not happy at all with how the topology turned out and was wondering how to improve upon…
Thanks. I got it to work once I set the sub-d level to 1, instead of 2. It matches up great. So my question is about putting this into practice. It seams kind of time consuming to cut in a bunch of edges like that in order to add support to some detail you need. It would be awesome if you could show a practical problem and…
I have a question perhaps someone can help me with. I want the nice smooth curve that is shown in picture one, and it seems that the only way i can get that is through the elimination of a support loop, which creates problems with the cut out area. Then in Pic 2 it looks a lot better with the support loop, the problem is i…
ok first up, you dont need to model all the holes. Only do one and duplicate it all the way down because the model is repetative. 1: Make the diagonal cuts shown by the red lines 2: Chamfer the Blue vertice to make your cylinder 3: You should end up with something looking like the green line 4: Remove the red lines with…
I edited it because there is no use in saying the same thing someone has already said, under the impression it's in some different or intelligent way. It didn't add anything new to the conversation. I don't realize those kinds of things while I'm writing them, But I do after I give it 5 minutes and come back. I hate…
This is an awesome tread guys. I am currently having problem with 2 hard edges crossing at 90 degrees and transitioning to a surface without edges on the other side of the edge. I am uploading a screengrab. Thanks in advance for the help. EDIT: it happens to me for tenth time- just after i make a post somewhere and go back…
Hi I'm replicating a tarp (red in picture) that's wrapped around a model. I'm a newbie so I don't have a clue how to approach this (it's a plane I believe). I was thinking I could start with 2 curves, 1 profile for the bottom, and 1 for the top, and "loft" them together. Didn't work out though when I tried :( EDIT: whoops,…
Alright, so i see time and time again that people tend have trouble doing certain things with hard-shapes and sub-d modeling. So i thought i would try something out here. I'm going to open this up to let people post a reference image of a simple, yet complicated shape(no motorcycles or tanks or stuff like that). And i will…