Did some more subD practice, would love to hear what people think of these questions. Max methods would be more appreciated. 1-Is it better for trims (please correct me if they're not called like that) to be separate meshes? If so, extrude+detach? 2-Any accurate way of guaranteeing a perfectly round surface? Would love to…
Hey guys, so yeah ... I am struggling BIG TIME with this Architecture piece. It is part of a bigger project in a modular environment and I'm about to throw in the towel because of this This is the roof of the Hagia Sophia church / mosque in Istanbul. Below you can find a blueprint of same church. Now I've already tried…
OK steps as promised. 1: Lay out some guide splines along the major curves so you can snap to them later. (or extrude them and use as boolean cutting surfaces maybe) Note that the splines are at low interpolation settings so their points are easier to use as guides. Build the main body from a cylinder or cube primitive,…
I often work with concept artists that start with 3D as a base. They push, pull, drag and deform their blockout meshes like crazy. I want to use these meshes, but they have a metric ton of these shapes. My solution: Use a script that can set a face to be planar from a whole selection of faces. Bind this to a key you can…
I apologize if this has been covered in this post, there's alot to go through. I've been spinning my wheels over this for a bit and I'm looking for a cleaner approach and solution. So my issue is supporting the inside bottom edge on both cut outs on my model. Some issue's I've run into when trouble shooting: More geo -…
Hi guys, I'm building a small scene of the Star Wars Jedi Council, using mainly the Disney Clone Wars show as my reference. I've started with what I felt was the simplest chair in the scene as a confidence build-up thing, as they are all quite tricky shapes to high poly. Here's what I have so far, Issue #1: There are small…
@aregvan @guitarguy00 You're welcome. Glad it was helpful. Thank you to everyone else who posts questions and answers too. Relying on tools to generate geometry just means avoid doing unnecessary manual work when there's a tool or modifier that will do the job quicker and more accurately. Here's an example of manual work.…
It's a destructive process so there are two concerns: preserving shape accuracy and avoiding manual work. Manual work is slow and the results are often inaccurate. Tools (used correctly) will be faster and more accurate than pushing points around manually. There's a couple ways to quickly re-build the shape without doing a…
You people are straight up magicians in here. I am way out of my league with what I am trying to do, but since I usually just pay others to model this stuff for me to use by my company, I wanted to be able to do it myself as well and understand how modeling works and what it takes. Now I have made several things, but my…
Hi ;-) First off I want to thank all the contributors in this thread, it is really helpful and I often just read all the stuff in here and learned a lot already. I am a 3d max user and just recently started doing 3D again (after a long brake, 20+ years, the era of Half Life modding and I remember polycount from back than…