@rudenko_je Deciding whether or not certain smoothing artifacts are acceptable really depends on a couple of different factors: * Are the smoothing artifacts on a part of the model that's visible to the player under normal game play conditions? * Are the smoothing artifacts significant enough to still be noticeable when…
@rogi92 Manually extruding and filling polygon strips can be a viable modeling strategy but some of the shapes in that mask could make it a tedious and time consuming process. Since you already have a solid start to outlining the shapes: consider streamlining this modeling strategy by using Blender's curve system to layout…
@UhhNope It depends on which critical part is going to constrain the surrounding geometry but the basic principle is the same: match the edge segments of the intersecting geometry. If that's not possible (because of some geometry restriction) then the next best thing is to either spread the error out over a wide area or…
@byas Thank you. Moving the root vertex away from the corner (about 50% of the loop's width) can improve the visibility of the highlight but much beyond that it tends to start effecting the overall consistency of the support loop. Some of this effect can be softened by dissolving the edges of the 2 to 1 reduction and just…
Hello guys, I am working on an AK47 and I have a question about a particular part: the 'iron sights' (how do you call this part of the gun anyway?). http://users.telenet.be/kansloos/ak/iron1.jpg http://users.telenet.be/kansloos/ak/iron2.jpg Same image as the first one but added some numbers/colors.…
@SignalFlare07 Welcome to Polycount. Consider checking out the forum information and introduction thread. This reply is a bit late but you're on the right track. Try to match the segments of the intersecting shapes and their support loops with the existing geometry of the underlying curvature. This will help prevent…
@dan001 In most cases there's room for improvement but broad or open ended questions rarely lead to specific, actionable feedback. What's best will often vary depending on the desired outcome and constraints of a specific use case. Getting good answers comes down to figuring out exactly what you're looking to improve and…
I would like to but i don't know how to do them. I even started to remake the whole key by creating the crevices first, joining them up, but it got too complicated too fast so i just abandoned it. That's why i came here posting that image, because i saw that people recreate/redraw those parts correctly so others can learn…
@tatertots I was planning on going through the weekly hard surface modeling challenge from 2014 (though I'm no where near prepared and instead decided to first go through all of Frank's detailed posts here). What you talk about with N-Gons and bevels to create the topology and join them up, I'm getting a good understand of…
ned the reason they are explaining it the way they are is because what you expect is a pipe dream and not realistic. You have just said you want is every possible thing that professional artists must make choices about throughout their day to day. You just want a perfect pipeline where programs know what you want before…