Fill hole

[urbssenator]

Hello

 

Here is my smurf. I have some questions

- Am I on the right way? Can somebody make some critics?

- How to fill some holes in the mesh?

 

thanks for your help

 

Remy

Schtroumpf_03.prj

[Paul Forwood]

Posting a jpg or two will help.

[Ilidrake]

I havent looked at it but if your missing patches on the model then perhaps they are 5 point spots. If they involve 6 or more points you'll need to break the mesh at those spots and rework it so you have 4 or 5 point patches.

[Rodney]

Remy,

Welcome to the forum!

 

I'm going to guess you've brought this in from another program.

Perhaps more important than filling holes is the fact that you can get away with using only about 20% of those splines.

If you want to animate him you really want to get to a place where you have a good economy of splines.

 

An added benefit to reducing splines is that it'll help you deal with and close any holes. (if using only A:M you likely don't even need to close some holes) I assume you mean at the end of places like the nose and hat, but I've indicated places (in red)where you'll have other more important concerns. (Note: I haven't indicated them all)

 

These areas have a poly-minded flow that will not work well at all.

They will need to be reworked.

 

Spline continuity-wise you've got something of a mess but... all in all its a nice smurf!

[Rodney]

Here is an example of the hat reworked.

You could have more or fewer splines depending on your needs but this one is based on a 8 spline cylinder.

In this case I've capped the end with what I'd call a basketball style. While its optimum to stick with four point patches in this case it leads me to use four three point patches on the top and bottom of the four point patches.

 

*Apologies for messing with your hat... I accidently tweaked it while trying to remove it from the smurf mesh.

One never knows when you'll want a smurf to remove his hat.

 

Edit: Uploaded the model file.

hat.mdl

[urbssenator]

Thanks for all those responses. I'm setting at work to model again my smurf with A:M!!!!

[John Bigboote]

WoW! Great example in 'minimal-splinesmanship' by Rodney!

[pixelplucker]

That is an outstanding job Rodney in reducing the splines... Now I know who to bug to convert my sub d models