Comments on: Tutorial: Modeling a Tennis Ball

By: arnel

arnel — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:02:55 +0000

this Tennis maya tutorial is great

By: headtennisracquet

headtennisracquet — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:23 +0000

You can make various little mistakes when learning or competing and at first you don't even notice the problem.

By: Arathorn

Arathorn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:14:47 +0000

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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!