Comments on: Tutorial: Modeling a Tennis Ball

By: RANKN67

RANKN67 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:55:01 +0000

guess who started this whole thing, ME!!!!!!!!! im so proud of my self and reywillow . ide like to see some credit jk

that would be cool tho

By: Peterjose

Peterjose — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:29:39 +0000

I agree with that concept of the blender but not that of the corrupt data of society.

By: ScruffleMcgruffle

ScruffleMcgruffle — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:26:40 +0000

I Disagree!

By: Hoehrer

Hoehrer — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:07:21 +0000

Of course it'S easier and time-saving to use bump-mapping, but I believe the idea behind this tutorial is to tech modelling, not texturing/uv-mapping.

You can fake _lots_ of things with bumpmaps, but this doesn't help one getting used to modelling in Blender.

But i also think adding another way to do it with bumpmap to the tutorial would be quite cool :) Care to create one?

Werner

By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:14:19 +0000

not to be harsh, but this is a terrible way to model a tennis ball in my opinion. Use a sphere, and normal map the thing. All the perturbtions are "innies" and don't affect the edges, because of this, a normal map would provide 99.9% the same result as modeling the thing, would be far quicker to render, and would allow you the flexiblilty of image detail.

@ T-Ry: aaah… Use a sphere… Don't model it. Use the above technique. Gimp lets you make normal maps if you don't use windows or OSX.

By: T-Ry

T-Ry — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:42:01 +0000

Clever method, and well presented.

I'd love to see someone tackle the golf ball from a few different angles. Any takers?

By: brian

brian — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:34:37 +0000

Fixed and added. Thanks for the heads up!

By: brian

brian — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:15:06 +0000

Thanks guys we'll get it corrected.

By: Hoehrer

Hoehrer — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:35:14 +0000

And for those who love to play with modifiers, there is now a second blend-file available for download that uses mirror&array modifiers to acieve the final shape (no grooves yet):

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Modelling_A_Tennis_Ball#.blend_file_so_far_5

Werner

By: Hoehrer

Hoehrer — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:02:50 +0000

The tutorial (and several other ways to fake it to be faster) have been converted to this wiki tutorial:

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Modelling_A_Tennis_Ball

Not all of the alternatives have finished text yet, but the images alone tell a short story.
The converted maya-tut. is finished though (see "Way three")

Werner