everyone is gonna approach this differently, but some things that I found handy in modelling a car: -Do not cut in doors and such in at the beginning, it's gonna be really hard to keep a nice flow and keep everything nice and even. So cut them in afterwards. -Really stay much lower on the amount of loops you have, the door…
@Brick Top - This was done very quickly(rusted) with no blueprint so its incredibly inaccurate!!!(its crap basically :P so i shouldn't really be giving you any advice but i will anyway :poly142: :P) So once again you have abit too much geometry where some areas have way too much, but it is a good improvement. Here's what i…
@Stoicx93 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. Adding parallel support loops down the middle of the guitar body will sharpen the inside corner of the recessed surface but will likely produce a smoothing artifact on the outside curve. There's a couple of different ways…
@naman Three fundamental concepts of subdivision modeling are: use the existing geometry as support for shape transitions, use a reasonable amount of geometry to generate the shapes, and match the number of segments in adjacent shapes to maintain uniformity. It's also important to either route support loops across the…
Hi everyone, my first post here, and I can't believe how useful this forum is. I thought other ones were helpful, but there are so many amazing resources here. I'd like to show you a project I'm working on, and an area I'd like to improve I'm trying to build an AT-AT walker and I decided to actually model the panel lines…
@acarmona88 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. Sharpening unsupported corners on curved surfaces often produces smoothing artifacts that can be resolved with a few different modeling and topology layout strategies. Deciding which is approach to use really just comes…
@christrom Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. The topology layout on the updated sample panel looks a lot cleaner. Splitting the model into individual components does tend to simplify the loop flow and is generally considered best practice whenever a watertight mesh…
@SkinnyM Both topology layouts are generally acceptable for most hard surface models. While the quad grid corner is a more conventional choice, the triangular quad corner tends to produce more appealing results for this type of shape transition. Something that can be verified by previewing the subdivision and looking at…
@Deqa The edges on the model look a bit too sharp when compared to what's shown in the reference images. Though the fender is mostly flat surfaces, there are a number of angled transitions that are missing. Some of which are difficult to see. Gathering some higher quality references, with better lighting and more contrast,…
I've a question about sub-d modeling 2 intersection tubes (contains hole, not solid cylinder). (I saw in another page, EQ or someone give tip for solid cylinder but not inside). A proper/clean way to make it? How. I manage to make it but takes some time to manually slide, cut some faces and weld/collapse vertices (and…