First you do this: [vv]1496428[/vv] then you do this: 1 - icosahedron 2 - chamfer all vertices 3 - chamfer all vertices 4 - remove all polygons except the pentagons 5 - weld/collapse all the corner/triangle vertices MAGIC!
Not much. I worked on 1/16th of it then did sym all the way around. Removed a couple edges. The only thing I did manually (Obviously( was cut 2 loops front and back + clean up boolean geo. I'll do a gif in a sec.
You could unwrap the Object which is in the form you want and then use a Script like UVW2XYZ , copy the outcome, revert back.Then you have one flat one and the desired form. Method 2: Start with a flat shape, copy it and bend it the way you want it.
struggling to comprehend this at the minute; ref: What I've got; I know Booleans are used quite often in this case; but as I typically avoid using them I wouldn't know how/why. Edit: I know I've got 2 turns ;) looked better
Here's 2 quick ways I did that (still new at this and my mesh sucks, but you get the idea). On the left, bumps modeled out of the plane, and on the right a lenghtened cylinder to get the same shape. If you want I can provide the OBJ to see it better.
Sir Apple - There are a bunch of posts on tires in this thread, here is one: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1505700#post1505700 yours is similar, but more simplified. Make 1/2 of one tread, mirror and offset it. Use that to duplicate all the way around for a complete tire....
With more geo i also meant better distributed. I did a new example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1114083/bend.obj Just bend it and smooth it and look if it´s better I know that there are now 2 poles, but they are in places where they don´t hurt as much.
It still needs some optimizing, but should give you one, of many, ways. Clockwise from top left: 1. spline 2. renderable spline converted to mesh 3. delete some edges and caps 4. extrude and refine 5. symmetry 6. smooth
Hello everyone! I faced with may be a trivial case, but solution is not obvious to me. I see only 2 ways to deal with such an angle. First: But here I have the quad which has a shape of triangle. Is it ok? Second: And here I have a star that shouldn't be there. Is there any other method to solve this kind of angle?
1. choose the flat mesh 2. go to animation > create deforms > Nonelinear > bend 3. Rotate the "Bend" Line so it sits flat with the mesh 4. click on the curvature and play around with the numbers to fit it around in a circle (Usually it's a PI, 3,1415 so it fits around perfectly)