Comments on: Cutting a Hole in Your Mesh

By: zapman

zapman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:32:31 +0000

LINK UPDATE: http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2006/09/video-cutting-hole-in-your-mesh.html

By: Kernon

Kernon — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:08:19 +0000

@Omar:
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regarding moving the newbie's mouse, I do have an application in development that will, in fact, do just that…actually control the user's running version of Blender, much like the tutorials found in Zbrush…

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:04:18 +0000

@Michael Crawford: Well said. Point is, holes are incredibly useful for a lot of different things, and knowing different techniques is great. My example is weak in that it falls apart when you try to make multiple holes like in the box/tube example. For that, I think the original method works better. Neither one works for everything.

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:59:28 +0000

What the pblm? Video tutorial for this kind of trick is really useless.
A simple text with screenshots is better explicit and fast.

1min58 to wait for a trick you can do/read in 15seconds, it's too bad.
Moreover as we can read, it causes some problem for playback.

Don't even talk about flash :).

cheers

Help my poor english pls:
Newbie means: someone who can't read? idiot/dumb/unsound/"limited mentally" or just beginner? :p
Sorry, but the first are my feeling when i see a blendier's tutorials, you take them too much for unsound kids.

Note: lol, soon with Verse you could move the newbies's mouse, cool what worse. :(

Don't get me wrong, you can do what you want, but it'd be cool to do it right :)

By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:10:28 +0000

@joc: about the bends. model and extrusion straight out. then use a curve modifier to bend them. you could use b-bones or lattices as well. Curve modifiers, however, don't stretch unnatrually, so the "tentacle" keeps it's length.

@sebastian: you're right about the faces in that particular case being wasteful. however i don't think that was the focus of his example. might it have been easier to use a plane? possably. But he suceeded in showing what he was trying to show. … and i feel you about the coffee… same here. however. i think eyelets on shoes are better left to texture work unless it's a really really close shot of the shoe. same deal with scew holes and recessed buttons. nothing a normal map can't fix. (and now thank god ts normal mapping is in cvs)

By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:00:57 +0000

joc. about the bends. model and extrusion straight out. then use a curve modifier to bend them. you could use b-bones or lattices as well. Curve modifiers, however, don't stretch unnatrually, so the "tentacle" keeps it's length.

By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:53:16 +0000

you should optimally plan out your holes and loops before you model. Fixing things after the fact is almost always less than optimal. an ounce of planning is worth a ton of duct-tape. The method explained, however is a good one. One might also try the new retopo tool to lay out clean geometry over old models to get good deformations for animation. If you're rendering a still, however, or an object that does not deform, you can be quite a bit more lax about clean geometry.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:36:09 +0000

@eUGENE… THANKS… will give that a try. I have Quicktime 6.

By: madman

madman — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:19:24 +0000

Easy, fast, a good tutorial for newbies!

Excellent work!

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:16:59 +0000

Needs for holes:

Windows
Door Handles
Lace eyelets on shoes
Screw Holes
Recessed buttons

Hope that helps. The thing is, techniques like this aren't a one-trick pony. This serves as a method for creating all sorts of dents and recesses right inside the mesh.