:shrug: why not. The secondary images show where I built one object, then didn't like the shading on the transition from bevel to flat side, so I added some control edges. And just for giggles I built the front faces of one with nurbs to see how much better or worse it would be for this object than sub-d. Geo 1 has the…
I'm playing around with the best way to insert a body seam into a rounded surface that goes against the models topology. You can see what I'm talking about here: The two ways I have come up with doing this are: 1) Create a bunch of triangles and 5 sided polygons along the seam that goes against the topology, but only do so…
Oh, well one thing to keep in mind is that by default modo's sub-division is set to level to, whereas max's is set to level1. I think if you just bump up your turbosmooth setting to 2 iterations you'll see the same results as in modo. I generally model all of my sub-d stuff to look correct at level 2, but sometimes i'll…
Your images did disappear. I saw them before they went though. Per, I think using one less subdivision like you did would work out better. You can always chamfer that edge. This one ended up a little thinner. 1. Box 2. Sub divide 4 (i think) times 3. Spherify 4. Boolean. 5. Cut away all the geo that can be mirrored and…
So i got a PM from n88tr asking how i make cylinders inside of other shapes, so here are a few gifs: 1. Easy way to do what is shown in his example 2. Doing a cylinder inside of a box You'll notice i didnt make a full edge selection when i bridge here, sometimes modo likes to screw this sort of bridge operation up, so you…
thanks, that's actually far, far better from what i did. there is still a minimal offset, but I think that can only be decreased any further if I throw more geo at it. I guess what happens is: 1. Bend modifier is being used on unsubdivided geometry 2. After bending edges are properly (round) distributed 3. BUT, when…
So, much of my job, while involving normal maps, rarely calls for (or is given enough time for) making a high poly and baking it down to a normal map for the low poly. So I've been wanting to practice this more at home. I'm working on a WWII type plane, and while I know how to do the baking, and the high poly shape is…
Hey guys. Just when i was thinking I am getting better at this I run in to another situation. I am uploading an image with example of what I don't understand. I am also not looking for a solution for this exact situation but trying to understand how it works. So I have a shape and I have to cut out a hole from it. (like in…
Hey shape modelers! So I had a few people ask me at work how I add cylinders into cylinders etc, so I did a little breakdown on how I approach it. Here is my image breakdown: So.. 1. firstly I created a plane with divisions equal to the power of 2 (in this case 32). 2. I created two cylinders as reference to cut into my…
Hey buddy, glad you're back :) I'm gonna try and do a video this time because I usually spend something like 5-15 minutes modeling something to show you, but 40-50 minutes to write it all up to get my thoughts in there correctly, in order to avoid the norwenglish you'll soon be witness to. When It's done processing on…