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Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
Hi, I'm currently working on a portfolio project and I want it to contain a modular castle. I went to polycount forum then I saw this picture from Kevin Johnstone from Epic and I wanted to reproduce them in 3Ds Max, but I just can'T achieve the result of the two pieces that I marked. Can anybody show me some sort of step… -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
Wow thank you very much, that's exactly what I wanted from this thread. Big help here, thank you Mark -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
It's deformation of an existing unwrapped mesh, I'm not sure if nurbs is the solution as you want to maintain UV's. Maya has the same deformers that Mark mentioned, use the manipulators and tweak the values til you get a desired result. You can stack deformers, I forget where but there is a way to reorder the stack if you… -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
I'm pretty sure Kevin explained that they all use the same texture sheet and most where derived from the same flat wall mesh. Deforming a flat wall that is already unwrapped, you normally don't have to do too much to the UVs and all of the shapes in the example above appear to be using the same square texture. Where if you… -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
It isn't. If you do it with NURBS (surfaces) and convert them to polys, you also have to UV-unwrap them. That shouldn't be any problem with the proper tools though. But even so, if you do it with deformers you have to optimize in the end anyway. Piece number two is a good example: With deformers you would get a lot of… -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
I don't use Max but if I were to make those in Maya, I would use a NURBS-curve and then clone it radially, with the pivot point placed in the corner. I would then use "loft" to create a surface between those curves. And finally I would convert that surface to polygons. Shouldn't be more than 5 mins of work. You could also… -
Re: Modular shapes workflow (Bended shapes)
Taper, Bend, Twist modifiers with the pivot point int the right places. You can also experiment with rotating the "mirror" gizmo in the symmetry modifier. Not only is this good for duplicating details around a circle but it can also be used to carve up meshes at very specific angles if you uncheck "weld along seam" then…
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