i did NOT know you could bevel from a single point like that WTF. my mind is so blown right now. you can literally do anything with this program. its overwhelming!!
What you can't do is volume select, so that if you change the topology, the same volume (of points, edges, or polygons) is selected. For non-parametric destructive editing, the program is great. But, doing things in a build-up, non-permanent way is very difficult or impossible, without manually saving history along the way.
i love cinema and frankly i would never have any other program as my main, but you should try blender, your mind would be blown by the things you can do... Cinema4d for me is the better modelling software and has the best system for rendering with its advanced and seemingly perfect rendering system.
thanks a million, this was so useful as I'm just making the leap from physical sculptor into digital low poly modeling. Great content, I'm definitely sold on your tutorials just from this alone. Cheers.
Awesome, thanks! If you're interested I've got a more in-depth series on hard surface modelling on my Patreon page, it might be worth a look, lots of tips on how to make sure your edge flow is good and best modelling practices.
If I were doing a game wouldn't it be better to just use lesser subdivisions ? like maybe have it to be around 8 edges for the cylinder ? Other than that yeah it was some good info. For me , the connect edges would be a pain. I would rather have extruded inner with a perfect square and and use subdivisions to get it round maybe with 1 sub level to get all quads having also good topology
yes of course the circles subdivisions could be be lower, i was more focusing on the plane itself. there is no point having a subdivided plane if it can be described in one poly.
There's a problem I'm having with this: as soon as I grab the point and try to bevel it, I get green lines (N-gons) going from the center to the corners, while you don't. Despite having both "N-gon" options disabled for the bevel tool....don't know why that's happening....
man... I have so many questions. Like, what is the shortcut to bring up the menu that you brought up at the 1:51 mark? Also, this may seem like a dumb question, but how are you navigating your scene without having to use the obnoxious camera controls in the top right corner? Any help you can offer would be SUPER appreciated!
It seems you are just beginning so let me help you out. To bring up the menu at 1:51, Right Click anywhere in the viewport. For navigation: Alt + left click and drag for rotation Alt + Middle mouse button and drag to pan Alt + Right click and drag to zoom (alternatively use the scroll wheel)
DIGITAL MEAT, you rock hard! Thanks for your help. If I have more questions, would you be willing to answer them for me? Would I need to PM you for additional questions, or just throw them up on any wall of your tuts? Thanks again!
Sorry dude, but i can't do that, I get many requests for this everyday, and if I said yes i'd never get anything done. Between running Digital Meat, producing tutorials, and working as a 3D Freelancer I really don't have the time to personally tutor someone unless it was paid work, sorry, hope you understand.
i did NOT know you could bevel from a single point like that WTF. my mind is so blown right now. you can literally do anything with this program. its overwhelming!!
glad you found it useful :D
What you can't do is volume select, so that if you change the topology, the same volume (of points, edges, or polygons) is selected. For non-parametric destructive editing, the program is great. But, doing things in a build-up, non-permanent way is very difficult or impossible, without manually saving history along the way.
i love cinema and frankly i would never have any other program as my main, but you should try blender, your mind would be blown by the things you can do... Cinema4d for me is the better modelling software and has the best system for rendering with its advanced and seemingly perfect rendering system.
Oh sugar! Interesting approach, thanks a lot!
Still blows my mind!!!
Thanks mate.
thanks a million, this was so useful as I'm just making the leap from physical sculptor into digital low poly modeling. Great content, I'm definitely sold on your tutorials just from this alone. Cheers.
cool nice to hear you can check out my tutorials and filter them on my site digitalmeat.uk
Very nice mate! Much easier and better than the other ones on the same topic!
This was amazingly useful! I actually never new about the depth in the bevel tool (never really tried it out)
Very useful!
I'm glad you found it helpful
Noice! Could you show us how to use this concept while putting a hole in a curved surface like sphere?
Nice one. Just found your channel, some great tuts, keep it up! :)
Great tip, thanks!
Thanks a lot man
This is awesome information. Thank you!
Cheers
!!! --> This was amazingly useful! Thank you!
great tip and technique! Thanks!
Cheers, please sub :D
Have been for a while now! Your content is great
Praise Kek
Awesome, thanks! 👍
cheers, please sub
Thanks for the technique
No problem buddy
WOW. Brilliant! just what I was looking for! Thanks! +1
sweet! please sub
DIGITAL MEAT Of course I'm subscribed... For a while now! I learn a lot from your approach to modeling. Clean and fast. Thanks and cheers!
Awesome, thanks! If you're interested I've got a more in-depth series on hard surface modelling on my Patreon page, it might be worth a look, lots of tips on how to make sure your edge flow is good and best modelling practices.
Thanks
sweet baby cheesus this is beautiful
Cheers buddy 🙂
If I were doing a game wouldn't it be better to just use lesser subdivisions ? like maybe have it to be around 8 edges for the cylinder ? Other than that yeah it was some good info. For me , the connect edges would be a pain. I would rather have extruded inner with a perfect square and and use subdivisions to get it round maybe with 1 sub level to get all quads having also good topology
yes of course the circles subdivisions could be be lower, i was more focusing on the plane itself. there is no point having a subdivided plane if it can be described in one poly.
There's a problem I'm having with this: as soon as I grab the point and try to bevel it, I get green lines (N-gons) going from the center to the corners, while you don't. Despite having both "N-gon" options disabled for the bevel tool....don't know why that's happening....
It's because you have N-gone lines turned on for display, to turn them off go to "filter" above the viewport window, then uncheck N-gon lines.
Thanks. Isn't it undesirable to have n-gons in the first place ? That's what my brief knowledge that I've acquired so far is telling me at least....
Yeah you don't want N-gons which is why i make quads towards the end
genius!
man... I have so many questions. Like, what is the shortcut to bring up the menu that you brought up at the 1:51 mark? Also, this may seem like a dumb question, but how are you navigating your scene without having to use the obnoxious camera controls in the top right corner? Any help you can offer would be SUPER appreciated!
It seems you are just beginning so let me help you out.
To bring up the menu at 1:51, Right Click anywhere in the viewport.
For navigation:
Alt + left click and drag for rotation
Alt + Middle mouse button and drag to pan
Alt + Right click and drag to zoom (alternatively use the scroll wheel)
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DIGITAL MEAT, you rock hard! Thanks for your help. If I have more questions, would you be willing to answer them for me? Would I need to PM you for additional questions, or just throw them up on any wall of your tuts? Thanks again!
Sorry dude, but i can't do that, I get many requests for this everyday, and if I said yes i'd never get anything done. Between running Digital Meat, producing tutorials, and working as a 3D Freelancer I really don't have the time to personally tutor someone unless it was paid work, sorry, hope you understand.
sure do. I'll ask elsewhere. Tho, I appreciate you answering the question I did ask. Thanks for your tutorials
awesome
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Oooo maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..!! (oh my god) thanks this is better than plugins
Thanks, but okay - nobody does hard surface without subdiv these days. That said it's a great tutorial, please don't take it the wrong way.
Cinema 4D has made this is way more complicated than it should be, it would take me two seconds to cut a hole in a plane in Photoshop.
What about ngons?
What about them? you might wanna watch the entire video :)
Wait... that's illegal
And then you create lots of n-gons (first example).. I have used this technique as well, but you have to fix those n-gons.
did you watch this all the way through?
So useful info. Thank You Sir!
My pleasure