@borealis When working with intersecting compound curves it's generally considered best practice to rely on tools, primitives and modifiers to generate geometry with a consistent curvature and segment spacing. It's also helpful to block out the shapes before adding support loops and secondary details since this makes it…
@PixelMagic It's difficult to provide more focused feedback without seeing any specific examples of the topology layout's you've tried and the smoothing errors you've encountered. Most of the advice that's been provided should get you close to some kind of usable result but there's no real way around the fact that it will…
@PleaseHelpMe A few posts up there's a couple of discussions about adding shapes to curves. You'll want to read through those for a more detailed answer to why this is happening and how to resolve it but the basic idea is to maintain a relatively consistent spacing on the geometry that makes up the curved surface and use…
Hello everyone, I hadn't noticed this discussion post until now! I'm struggling with 3d modeling in general, I'm not sure where I should be improving. I wanna model but when I'm on it, there are a lot of questions that come into my mind. I do experiment, but there are more especific questions such as: Once i've added the…
BerlinBoy6329. What Per is saying, is that you're to emotionally attached to what you're doing at that instance. This is something you do when you're trying to learn something. I did that alot, but soon I relized I care to much of the outcome before master the basics, hence creating a mental block. -The basics does not…
So this a little weird and out of the subject area, forgive me... Imagine I have a compound curve mesh like a bowl and the walls of the bowl have a varying thickness. Say I wanted to unfold this bowl flat, as one would for papercraft, but wanted to retain the thickness of the walls. Is there a software, a script, anything…
@JBurk Overall you have the right idea and are pretty close with the second iteration. A few pages back there's a couple of relevant discussions about cylinder to cylinder intersections and multiple cylinder intersections close together. The basic idea is to block out all of the key features then adjust the segments of…
@Suosa It looks like you're on the right track. If the mesh subdivides cleanly, without any major smoothing artifacts, then it's generally acceptable to use n-gons and triangles in hard surface subdivision models. Since this model is going through a sculpting pass it may make more sense to try and add these minor surface…
Also... the "Cap" tool within the graphite modeling tools. Not to be confused with the cap tool in the Editable Poly tools. If you are using 2012 though you are screwed. They seemed to have broken this tool.…
Not sure if the title is worded correctly, but here's my issue. I have a spline in the shape of flames from Illustrator that I need to use to create geometry to add onto a simple drumstick model. One of my restrictions is that I can't alter the original spline, except to help bend/wrap it around the cylinder. If I convert…