SubD examples and models

Box

Errm, that would be a white whale. But then you norgies eat whale. So maybe it's a lightly grilled whale.

...I'm off now to pickle a koala for my breakfast.

thomthom

You know, I started modelling that car so many years ago - in 3dsmax. It's starting to become a haunting ghost. At some point I need to defeat this thing. My ~~blue~~white whale.

thomthom

@box said:

Errm, that would be a white whale.

Cursed, I even quickly googled it and picked the first answer.

ZahariStoyanov

@box said:

Errm, that would be a white whale. But then you norgies eat whale. So maybe it's a lightly grilled whale.

...I'm off now to pickle a koala for my breakfast.

Got me dead

Rich O Brien

HornOxx

Rich, this is just awesome
This is a great vehicle - This tank design look more nice than threatening. Great details - does one chain link(?) consist out of 2 single parts?

thomthom

So... when will we see the animated version...?

pbacot

"Sick" as the kiddies say. Is that a turret? Do the tubes upfront stretch if it turns?

nlipovac

This tank looks made for new toy design, shoots soap balloons.

ontaotto

@cotty said:

Another simple one...

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I have done in the past some similar shapes, to me the best shape to get those T Pipes are the hexagons:

This sample was done in another program, but works exactly the same in SU by using SubD.

Cheers!

thomthom

Those are octagons, right?

ontaotto

@thomthom said:

Those are octagons, right?

Dang! Yeah you're right, in this particular case were used octagons, but in the main shapes when you want to get rounded ones, the hexagon should work good.

thomthom

Do you generally feel hexagons works better than octagons or any other ngons?

ontaotto

@thomthom said:

Do you generally feel hexagons works better than octagons or any other ngons?

When you are working with simple tubes, the hexagon seems to me as the best, this is another sample:

It's a simple hexagon based shape and when you repeat it you can create a texture, as many shown here, the best thing is that you can UV map those very well:

thomthom

Lovely example!

Btw, what software is that? Do you know if it uses OpenSubdiv?

panixia

not 100% sure about the exagon being the best starting shape, depending on what i have to do, in most cases, i start from 4,8,12,16 segments.. anything you can split by 4.. there are some cases in wich i use 6, that's fine, but i would not say that's always"the golden rule".. it tends to generate asymmetrical topology distribution/flow/cap, sometimes it's what i need, sometime it's not..

looking at your grid example, in that case exagon is the best way to go, bacause you need to tile your rows "alternate" but in the case of a "stack bond style" tiling, that same base topology could be quite problematic..

so definetly, it depends on the shape/topology you are tryng to achieve.