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by HornOxx » Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:31 pm
tuna1957 wrote:...Seem obsessed with what I can make out of copies of one piece...  be careful - there is such a high addiction factor  again a so nice (not fooling!) practice  ! (in the throat(?) above you end up with a triangle - I still do not really understand correctly whether triangles are no longer an obstacle in this kind of workflow, which they were at the beginning of SubD)
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by Box » Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:17 pm
Next you'll start twisting them, then all is lost. You'll have to start on the twelve steps and put your faith in a higher power... . . . . . . . . . . Box
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by HornOxx » Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:38 pm
Box wrote:Next you'll start twisting them...and put your faith in a higher power... . .
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by tuna1957 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:58 pm
Thanks Box , HornOxx.
HornOxx, you asked about triangles..... After I exploded the twelve pieces I erased and redrew the flat bottom inside and out so they were all quads. The pairs of triangles at the top just bellow the rim I could eliminate by " soft, smooth, no cast shadows" but I lost to much definition of the crease that way. Leaving them as triangles kept a better look to the vertical grooves. It seems you can cheat on the quads a little sometimes and still get a nice result.
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by HornOxx » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:01 pm
thanks for these Infos - yes, you are geting a better shape so This Green-Blue look is this quadface tools live mesh analysis feature - I always forget about this good feature 
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by tuna1957 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:26 pm
HornOxx, your correct the green, purple colors are from Quadface tools analyze function. I forget about it myself sometimes  .
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by thomthom » Sun Mar 24, 2019 2:58 pm
optimaforever wrote:thomthom wrote:Btw, do you have some quad that are not fully QuadFace quads? I see some unexpected uneven edges in the back there: 2019-01-19_13h26_35.png
This is the same strange behaviour I got last year with some meshes. Dunno why, but it seems that some vertices react as a 1.0 crease when subdivided although they are 0 when checked with the crease tool. I usually delete the problematic edges and redraw the geometry from scratch when that happens.
If you send me one of these models I can have a look into what is going on.
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by tuna1957 » Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:48 pm
Some more of my weird Vertex tools and SubD stuff. Twisted up the piece on the left, did some copy - array business. Add a few more bits and pieces and I ended up with a hanging lamp. SubD on the twisty bits and bottom trim ring the rest native SU.....
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by pilou » Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:47 pm
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by Box » Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:38 am
A couple of sinks I knocked up as an example. Simple 
Somewhat more complex 
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by pilou » Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:59 am
No thickness ? 
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by HornOxx » Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:19 pm
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by pilou » Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:04 pm
Yes of course, it was for find a little default on these voluptuous design beauties! The cool thing about Subdivision modeling it's that is always a surprise before the final object! 
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by HornOxx » Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:09 pm
pilou wrote:The cool thing about Subdivision modeling it's that is always a surprise before the final object!
Yes, each time 
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by McGyver » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:11 pm
In the video pilou posted, does anyone know what plugin the person is using that has an icon which looks like sword? 
Sorry about the crappy screen capture... and thanks for any info.
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by HornOxx » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:20 pm
Hi - it could Artisan Subdivide and Smooth (but I'm not sure, however)
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by dedmin » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:27 pm
McGyver wrote:In the video pilou posted, does anyone know what plugin the person is using that has an icon which looks like sword? 
Sorry about the crappy screen capture... and thanks for any info.
Zorro2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7uAMfs4T8s
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by McGyver » Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:02 pm
Thank you both! It was Zorro 2... I did not know that was what that tool did... too bad, I could have used that a bunch of times. Thanks again.
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by tuna1957 » Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:29 pm
Been fooling about off and on trying to come up with a reasonably decent "human" type figure. Getting close. Still trying to figure out the best approach for head and hands. Started with blocking in half of the monster and then copied and flipped to get both sides. Progress ! 
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by pilou » Tue May 21, 2019 10:50 pm
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by HornOxx » Sun Sep 01, 2019 7:56 pm
U-Boot Typ VIIHi, just a little sunday afternoon exercise again, entirely modeled with SubD and all of it´s associated quad tools. (the idea was to play a little bit with the shape of the old German submarine "Type VII" / rendered in Enscape) https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/4ee76836-331b-49cd-88bd-c44e10b389e3/U-Boot-Type-VII-NEO(edit 09-14-2019: added an AO-render, rendered with Shaderlight, combined with a SU line overlay)
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by alsomar » Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:34 am
Hi everyone! Here's a recent exercise I made with SketchUp 2019, SUbD, VertexTools and QuadFace Tools. It's the head of a corinthian column. I used Thea for SketchUp v2 for the rendered pic. column_1b.jpg column_2b.jpg
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by HornOxx » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:49 pm
Hi All - Back in 2017 I modelled Homer Simpson's head and loudly announced that I intend to make the whole guy - someday  ( viewtopic.php?f=397&t=63826&start=810) Now, more than two years later, I finally managed to realize this announcement - still without clothes though, but that's again another task - sometime Homer's body was modeled as individual segments first, such as body, arms, legs... and then finally merged into one solid. Only details like eyes, ears and his 3 hairs are added as independent solids. The renderings are made with Enscape and Shaderlight Enjoy 
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by Box » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:39 am
From Hornoxx's brilliant complexity to perhaps the simplest SUbD of all, a Guitar Pic.
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by baz » Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:33 pm
Box wrote:From Hornoxx's brilliant complexity to perhaps the simplest SUbD of all, a Guitar Pic.
Simple rocks. I am a bit SubD challenged meself, but I watched that gif 3 times, then went and did it in about the same time, (a bit longer). Perfick. Ta.
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by Box » Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:27 pm
That's the trick Baz, start small and play with little shapes and see what you get. Gradually you'll see how to put shapes together to make complex structures.
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by baz » Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:37 pm
Box wrote:That's the trick Baz, start small and play with little shapes and see what you get. Gradually you'll see how to put shapes together to make complex structures.
Yes. Ciao.
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by HornOxx » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:37 pm
SubD´s range of possibilities couldn't be better illustrated than with Alsomar´s corinthian column masterpiece and Box´s ingenious Guitar Pic quicky-exercise (both above here) - both are great examples! Thanks for sharing 
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by HornOxx » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:53 pm
Hi All - To bring my Homer Simpson endless project to an end, I finally decided to put him on his white shirt, his blue pants and his shoes. Finally the winter is approaching here and Homer should not freeze If anyone wants to SubD-play with this thick cuddly yellow guy himself, I´ll add the entire proxy model here... The rendered model, without SubD-function then, is also available in the 3D Warehouse: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/ ... by-HornOxxedit: pic2 - did some minor modeling improvements at Homer's mouth
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by alsomar » Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:25 am
D'oh! What a great Homer!
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