I have this simple pattern that i want to duplicate across to form a wall or floor or whatever. Can i just combine them instead of merging verts, because it doesnt seem to welcome that unless i go to each 2 verts. Also i see that it would be too many polys, should i texture such things as mentioned above by zacD? To me im…
@dm3d Ima chime in because you were on the right track from the start, you just didn't make your supporting edgeloop follow the zigzag at the top. I started with a 100sided cylinder because I wanted 5 sides for each slope cut so I would end up with double edgeloops for that crisp cnc look 1 shows the same edgeloop you did,…
I thought this workflow might help some of you. This is one of my favorite workflows for creating certain hard surface parts is using a little workflow called "Pattern Creation & Deformers" Let’s model the magazine of a machine gun with the following workflow: 1) Break down the model into a repetable pattern, so the bulk…
Hi there, I recently watched Grant Warwick's Hardsurface Tutorials and did some practice pieces. Right now I try to get details onto a bent surface but I am getting pretty uggly stretching along the holes, what destroyes the surface. (yeh, Viewcube...) I know of the approach to model it flat and then bend the pice but that…
Please, tell me again how I am the person being offensive. No where in my post did I ever mention that anyone has no clue what they are doing, yet you posted "1- Have no clue what they're doing 2- Think it's "cool" to have a busy stack 3- Or are using it as a "restore point" for the mesh (see #1)". To me, that's pretty…
Hello guys, I have a question: PICTURE 2 is the result I am looking for. PICTURE 1 is what I got. This is wat I do: * I create a line (the red line in picture 1) and use it as a guide * I move all vertices horizontally till they match up with the red line. I zoom in, match up again, zoom in, match up again,... So I do this…
thanks everyone, :) @throttlekitty but your example will show the seam if you bake it right ? when I try transfer normals it's not working, but it's fine with flat surface. I added more geometry and it's do the trick like the image below :) so this method only works if I really want a perfect bake. otherwise will show the…
DING DING DING You've hit the jackpot! The solution, like 80% of this thread, is to remodel the shape with more geometry! yay The problem is that you dont have enough inherant loops to support the shape, so you then have to add more tight loops, but that creates hard edges. So, you start with a more dense mesh, with a…
OBJ File It have the steps I used to get to the final shape...Starting from a plane / edge extrude, then make a cylinder as reference, to scale the piece around and align it later on. I pick the cylinder as rotation pivot then duplicate it around and correct the misalignement of edges to have the straight parts, then…
@FrankPolygon Hey mate thanks for the write up, it's really appreciated. I was a little confused as to the 1/6th segments when really it's 1/8th. The most difficult part is defining the stages between 1 and 2 you labeled. Once you commit to the angle/depths you can't really revert. Meaning you'd have to go all the way back…