Hey guys, first post here. Been trawling this page for all the brilliant information available for what must be at least a year. Anyhow, first time I've been stumped on something for a while so I thought I might as well give y'all a shout. Basically I'm working on a post-apocalypse rifle in Maya and I wanted to put a scope…
Hello, I cannot start new threads as of yet, so I hope this is a good place to ask my question. I am marking out my base topology plan on the physical object I am modeling. This is the door to an Audi R8. So the white lines are either heavy curves or creases / open border edges. The red arrows point to where my main edges…
what's the problem? Does the HP smooth bad? do you get pinches? etc etc. Main reason i'm asking it's because, if this i a hp which you will bake down, if it smooths good move on. Are you getting pinches? are we getting close to the object to see the small pinches? Make the main shape without any indents or extrudes. Later…
@MegaSofteae Creating a detailed outline of an object's profile can seem like a logical place to start but in most cases this limits the way you think about the shapes by constraining it to a 2D space. This is why it's generally considered best practice to block out all of the major features of an object in 3D before…
Alright, so i see time and time again that people tend have trouble doing certain things with hard-shapes and sub-d modeling. So i thought i would try something out here. I'm going to open this up to let people post a reference image of a simple, yet complicated shape(no motorcycles or tanks or stuff like that). And i will…
I have been using 3ds Max for some time now, and I am getting a little annoyed at the small things that trip up my workflow. I used blender 2.6 for a while and loved the spacebar command search and all of its shortcuts. I had a tough time setting up anything similar in max that would work in all sub-object modes. For now,…
If the patch isnt fitting your mesh you want to deform then go into element mode and scale it up. Dont scale it at object level. ALWAYS work at a realistic scale.. ALWAYS. check your world units and make your model is correctly sized in relation to them. your modeling tools will work better as they are often dependent on…
Pretty much spot on. A friend who is an experienced modeller told me about this rule, but I guess the language barrier stopped him from explaining it properly to me - he did however mention that it only matters on areas that are animated, but I didn't know it meant deformed, I thought it meant if it was attached to any…
Hey guys. i'm trying to model a plane. the way i decided to approach it, is to create all of the major parts separately, and then connect them together, as the parts are quite complex in form i find this technique better than just creating the plane as one object. So i made all of the parts (main fuselage, wings,…
@MKO It's likely the current smoothing artifacts are caused by a combination of factors: extruding directly off of the existing cylinder edge segments and the extra edge loops that run down into the corners. Before trying to resolve the issue there's a few things that are worth considering: * Will the object ever be viewed…