Hi there. I would recommend to work with 1/8 of the mesh. 1. Start with your basic shapes 2. Create seperate mesh that would act as boolean 3. Boolean 4. Rotate the mesh 45 degrees 5. delete 1/8 of the mesh 6. Clean up 7. Rotate back -45 degrees 8. Symmetri and voila. HERE IS THE 1/8th of the mesh cleaned
I might be missing something but.. 1. No turbosmooth, all 1 smoothing group 2. No control edges, turbosmooth (2x) by smoothing groups, turbosmooth (2x) normal settings. 3. Control edges, all 1 smoothing group 4. Control edges, turbosmooth (2x) normal settings.
s6: you've got a bunch of redundant loops there, 1 spit on the side of each rail; and 3 down the center, removing would drop your geo count quite a bit.
-I just took a random amount of edges, you will have to work out how many you need for that :p 1) Make a cylinder (having 1 cap segment is helpfull to make the selection) Select 2 edges, skip 2 (or you could do like 2-3, 1-2, depends on what you need) and scale them in as much as is needed 2) remove the top 3) with border…
In max you could 1. model shape 2. use array to make an even pattern 3. use FFD to taper towards one end 4. aling along spline into a curved shape of your dome.
I know of this Edge Loop select method you are mentioning, but this only works on polygonal objects. Unfortunately not in the SubD edge mode. The 1/2/3 method does not help to hide the SubD representation in this case. :( Thanks anyway.
This is how i would do it. From top left to right and down . 1. Baseshape of where the fingers would go out 2. the back that would connect to it 3. fixed the finger shape 4. Meshes inside that i duplicated and scaled down to boolean 5. Union boolean the main shapes 6. Difference Boolean the holes 7A. Fixed topology 7B.…
1. MOAR GEO(overall and above the indent shape where the pole is) 2. try to get rid of the pole(if you don´t know how, i will give you a quick example) 3. dunno, the first suggestions should be enough ;)
Build the whole thing without doing the indent. Basically 1. Modell the thing 2. Extrude in the part you want to be the Hatch 3. Extrude it out 4. Extract that part you want to use as "Hatch" Door. 5. Smooth and see if it fits.
calen, you could always try to make it really low poly. Without any edge support Import it to Zbrush, amp the HP up without using smoothing 2-3 times, then apply smooth and amp it up 1-2 times.