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1. SurfDeform Mini-Tutorial

   

   Topic by nfrrtycmplx · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   Here's a quick Mini-tutorial on how to morph complex geometry to simple NURBS shapes... Here we have a simple sphere converted to NURBS, and a common situation you see in sci-fi models... a curved surface with several small depressions. These are the wire-frames of the final objects. This is the final modifier stack.…

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   Reply by Oniram · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   ! this is awesome. thanks for sharing.

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   Reply by Razgriz · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   Hmmm, well, the few times I've needed to do that, you can use Get Shape From Selection in the edge selection rollout to turn any edge loop into spline - so if you do think splines with be the best solution, you wouldn't have to make any new splines, just turn the topology of the mesh into splines.

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   Reply by Razgriz · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   No problem, yeah, it's an easy thing to forget to do. I see it a lot on things like gun barrels, or anything that involves cutting holes into a plane that will become a cylinder - it needs to go Turbosmooth > Bend, not Bend > Turbosmooth. In fact I really see it often, which can be confusing, because the whole point of…

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   Reply by Razgriz · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   Thanks for taking the time to put this together, always good to get a refresher on the deform modifiers. They tend to be one of those tools I remember exist after I spent 20 minutes ruining a mesh by fiddling around with soft selection. Question: Wouldn't it make more sense to always throw the turbosmooth below the…

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   Reply by Baddcog · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   Yeah, I've never messed with surf deform either but have been using a lot more bend/taper/ etc.. modifiers than I did in the past, so I guess i need to mess with this more and learn some new techniques.

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   Reply by vivin · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   This is a nice technique! Anything similar to this in Maya?

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   Reply by Quack! · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   This. Is. Awesome.

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   Reply by [HP] · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

   Win, I must try this, it makes modeling round shapes much easier. Thanks.

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    Reply by IxenonI · Aug 2011 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

    cool little tip. Very useful. Thanks for sharing