SubD examples and models

tuna1957 · 13 Mar 2019, 16:33

A little late night messing about..... Made the little curved piece down front, follow me then Vertex tools to get the twist... Now what ???? Copy around and you get a kind of crazy flower shaped fruit bowl !

HornOxx · 13 Mar 2019, 17:18

love this "messing"
(btw "Messing" in German is the metal alloy brass )

tuna1957 · 13 Mar 2019, 19:45

@hornoxx said:

love this "messing"
(btw "Messing" in German is the metal alloy brass )

Thanks HornOxx. Curious would "fooling about" translate better

optimaforever · 14 Mar 2019, 11:05

@thomthom said:

Btw, do you have some quad that are not fully QuadFace quads? I see some unexpected uneven edges in the back there:

[attachment=0:1mfg7n1x]2019-01-19_13h26_35.png[/attachment:1mfg7n1x]

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.

tuna1957 · 22 Mar 2019, 04:27

More late night fooling about / practice. Seem obsessed with what I can make out of copies of one piece. Made the piece on the left, copy _ array twelve times. Exploded and regrouped. Cleaned up the internal bits with Solid Inspector. Decided to flare the top a little more, as always Vertex tools makes it easy. There you have another crazy vase.

HornOxx · 22 Mar 2019, 11:31

@tuna1957 said:

...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)

Box · 22 Mar 2019, 12:17

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...
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HornOxx · 22 Mar 2019, 14:38

@box said:

Next you'll start twisting them...and put your faith in a higher power...
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wunderbar !!

tuna1957 · 22 Mar 2019, 16:58

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.

HornOxx · 22 Mar 2019, 18:01

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

tuna1957 · 22 Mar 2019, 18:26

HornOxx, your correct the green, purple colors are from Quadface tools analyze function. I forget about it myself sometimes .

thomthom · 24 Mar 2019, 13:58

@optimaforever said:

@thomthom said:

Btw, do you have some quad that are not fully QuadFace quads? I see some unexpected uneven edges in the back there:

[attachment=0:gkjocs9z]2019-01-19_13h26_35.png[/attachment:gkjocs9z]

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.

tuna1957 · 28 Mar 2019, 22:48

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.....