SubD examples and models

[thomthom]

@olishea said:

This is what I mean; is there a way to show the subdivided mesh in a small window that runs real-time with the SU model?

Oh, well, that surely is the next thing I'd poke into once OpenSubdiv is implemented! I was thinking of it in two stages:

1. A preview window on the side.
2. Make the background of that preview window transparent and overlay it the SU viewport. (not sure how well that'll work since it'd be a separate 3d spacxe on top of SU's view...)

[olishea]

Nice!!

I thought I was talking jibber jabber but you catch my drift!

Can't you already do something similar with Maxwell? It renders a subdivided version of your control mesh? I'm not maxwell user so unsure. Also needs to be realtime, simple shader.

If you could switch between SU viewport and a SubD render overlay that would be better.....kinda like Thea where you can see the render in the viewport. If you could press a hotkey and the screen changes to the subdivided render that would be a total game changer for SU.

Even if it was a preview window I would be happy to be fair.

[thomthom]

@olishea said:

Can't you already do something similar with Maxwell?

Yea I wonder if I saw a YouTube video on that. Though I'm not a Maxwell user...

[numerobis]

@thomthom said:

1. A preview window on the side.
2. Make the background of that preview window transparent and overlay it the SU viewport. (not sure how well that'll work since it'd be a separate 3d spacxe on top of SU's view...)

Please, no separate window!

@olishea said:

Can't you already do something similar with Maxwell? It renders a subdivided version of your control mesh? I'm not maxwell user so unsure. Also needs to be realtime, simple shader.

Yes, Maxwell has render time subdivision. It's not a shader, it's a modifier, that produces real subdivision geometry.
http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mxdocsv3/Pixar+OpenSubdiv

[thomthom]

@numerobis said:

Please, no separate window!

Not much way around that - since the SU API doesn't give access to the pipe-line. It'd off course be optional to use it.

[ZahariStoyanov]

Not quite sure where to post this but, since I'll be applying SubD on it, I'll ask here: any ideas how to fix the topology of the red section in this model?
Benz+190+Evo.skp

[ely862me]

Maybe add another loop.

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[ZahariStoyanov]

My biggest concern is the rear glass' frame - the corner looks a bit weird when I subdivide it because the ring from there goes along the roof all the way to the front instead of connecting somehow to the door's corner or something. I mean, I'm trying to solve the way I did on the corresponding front section(A-pillar?)

[ZahariStoyanov]

Fixed! I color-coded the problematic section again so I can better explain what was running through my head: I'm looking at the whole front-to-back edge as a group of rings that go along through the whole car. The issues shown on the "before" picture caused the corners between the roof and the C-pillar to kind of flick open. Now that I rearranged those rings and added a little extrusion to all contours, the problem's gone

Before:

After:

Smooth:

[cuttingedge]

@alsomar said:

Well, here comes mine:

and after a little bit of Thea and Photoshop, this is the result:

Very clean high poly modeling!

[thomthom]

Images doesn't seem to load on my end. (IMO it's better to upload to the forum instead of hot-linking.)

[cotty]

It's Spanish and I don't see the images too.

[garydorn]

I found this subdivision tips
http://blog.whiteblaizer.com/2009/03/subdivision-tips-hard-surface-modelling-iv/

not sure of the language - might be Italian.

here is the index page
http://blog.whiteblaizer.com/tutorials/

Hope it helps.

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[garydorn]

@cotty said:

It's Spanish and I don't see the images too.

images changed to uploads rather than linked

[Rich O Brien]

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female-base-head.skp

[thomthom]

@garydorn said:

I found this subdivision tips
http://blog.whiteblaizer.com/2009/03/subdivision-tips-hard-surface-modelling-iv/

not sure of the language - might be Italian.

here is the index page
http://blog.whiteblaizer.com/tutorials/

Nice! That looks to be similar to the challenge HornOxx and I was looking into earlier:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397%26amp;t=63826%26amp;start=300#p588912
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397%26amp;t=63826%26amp;start=330#p588916

[tuna1957]

o.k I know it's not a car or godzilla, just started messing about with SubD last night. trying to wrap my brain around a new way of doing things. here's a mod style chip & dip bowl for your next party. copied my steps for the pic.

plain cup in front pretty much native SU tools

far left, base shape of bowl , pretty much Vertex tools

middle bowl , shaped wavy edge , all Vertex

far right , SubD , copied and scaled down for the dip.

I think I really like this, don't think I could have got these shape without Vertex & SubD , thanks thomthom..

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[thomthom]

@tuna1957 said:

I think I really like this, don't think I could have got these shape without Vertex & SubD , thanks thomthom..

[McGyver]

@rich o brien said:

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So just when I managed to stop checking to see if there were any updates in the UnWrap thread, you post one here... Pretty sneaky... Pretty sneaky.

Damn it, I built a time machine just so I wouldn't have to wait for this to be released... But either it doesn't work and I keep falling asleep in it or it only moves me forward in 8 hour increments. Stupid lousy impatience.

[Rich O Brien]