Surface ambiguities

[bobhernie]

This could well be my own incompetence but every time I try to model a face, when trying to attach the nose I always get this weird crease around where the nose connects (as shown in the pics) no matter whether I make the nose separately or pull it out from the face it seems to happen, I have tried Hooks and 5-point patches to no avail. If someone could point out where I am going wrong I would really appreciate it.

[Fuchur]

This could well be my own incompetence but every time I try to model a face, when trying to attach the nose I always get this weird crease around where the nose connects (as shown in the pics) no matter whether I make the nose separately or pull it out from the face it seems to happen, I have tried Hooks and 5-point patches to no avail. If someone could point out where I am going wrong I would really appreciate it.

 

Have a look at the image provided... it should give you a much better surface.

 

All in all, you are using too many CPs for such a simple model and a quite uneven number of CPs on the nose-rings (so you may need that, dont know)...

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[robcat2075]

Welcome to the Forum!

 

A good rule of splining is that you should never have more than 4 patch corners at any CP.

 

The spots where you have a spline dead-ending into a CP where two splines are already crossing... that makes 5 corners not 4... that's always icky.

 

Fuchur's alternate splining shows how to avoid that.

[brainmuffin]

I'd reccommend taking a look at Malo's tutorial here:

 

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...839&hl=malo

 

It looks like the workflow he uses is similar to what you're trying to accomplish.

[bobhernie]

Fuchur, thanks so much for the image it really helped me sort the model out, the more I use the program the more spline aware I will become

robcat2075 and brainmuffin I appreciate your comments as well, and that tutorial is very handy.

 

Cheers!