pixelmech Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Hi, Here is a movie of my first model. A strange looking fellow. It's all original, I'd say I put about 8-10 hours into it. I've learned a lot but I could use some critiques to help me sort out the problem areas (I can upload the project file if that helps or is desired). I used shaggy's hand as a reference when I made mine, but it has some real rough parts. Plus, there is one 5 point patch that will not close, no idea why. See pic. One thing I can't seem to get is where you see a slight "diamond" area in a patch and can't seem to get rid of it. Also, I think I may have used too many hooks. In particular on the top of the hand, they look real bad :/ Please don't hold back, gimme the hard criticism, I really want to make some progress. NOTE Hand picture on next post. I uploaded this as a zip - the .mov was 2 meg at 4 seconds. Not sure how to make it smaller, rendered it in preview/low. Thanks! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 Hand pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nf1nk Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 your spot with the missing patch looks like a spot to put in a 5 pt patch to do it click on each of the five points and the icon that looks like a pentagon should activate, when you click it, the patch will be made. Also I don't think you uploaded the film you think you did, I got a short video of two balls falling and bouncing a little Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 8, 2005 Hash Fellow Share Posted January 8, 2005 By "diamond" you mean the dark creases at spline intersections? First guess... spline continuity error. Splines need to cross each other like an X at CPs, not meet and then turn right angles away from each other like ><.> Break up the splines and connect opposing spline ends first. In one case you have more than 2 splines running throught a CP. That's always bad. The tricky part is figuring out how not to do those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 your spot with the missing patch looks like a spot to put in a 5 pt patch to do it click on each of the five points and the icon that looks like a pentagon should activate, when you click it, the patch will be made. Also I don't think you uploaded the film you think you did, I got a short video of two balls falling and bouncing a little Right, the highlighted section is indeed a 5-point patch. My point was I did everything I could to make that section a 5-point patch and it won't close. I used control click, shift click, tapping the period key twice to select it, but it will not give me the option to make it a patch... Sorry about the Movie mix up, and I can't seem to get my QT movie to be less than 1MB compressed so for now there is a picture up.. how do you make a smaller movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 By "diamond" you mean the dark creases at spline intersections? First guess... spline continuity error. Splines need to cross each other like an X at CPs, not meet and then turn right angles away from each other like ><. Break up the splines and connect opposing spline ends first. In one case you have more than 2 splines running throught a CP. That's always bad. The tricky part is figuring out how not to do those. Yes! The dark creases...what you describe makes sense and I'll try that. I didn't notice the spot where I had more than 2 splines, I'll have to take a look. I was pretty bleary eyed at the end there, it was midnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.