SubD examples and models

utiler

Beautiful work as always, Cotty! Do you mind me asking what render program you're using? Very crisp.

cotty

Thank you, those are rendered with Indigo Renderer.

tuna1957

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 !

flower fruit bowl.jpg

fruit bowl render2_pp.jpg

HornOxx

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

tuna1957

@hornoxx said:

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

Thanks HornOxx. Curious would "fooling about" translate better

optimaforever

@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

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.

groovy vase.jpg

HornOxx

@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

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

@box said:

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

tuna1957

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.

groovy vase triangles.jpg

groovy vase triangles2.jpg

HornOxx

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

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

thomthom

@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

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.....

twist shade2.jpg