this is probably...no.. this is hands down the best tip on blender hard surface modeling. This is gold, priceless. A big big "thank you" from Tuscany ;)
I saw a video talk about shrinkwrap modifier in hard surface modeling,but I found the shading is some kind weird.The data transfer just solves the problem,Thanks a lot!
Glad it worked for so many. My object doesn't turn and pivot with the surfaces to which it is shrink wrapped. I suspect I'm missing something when it comes to freezing the object.
Oh Snap! Snap was turned off. I find that the speed at which you can figure out a solution is directly related to the number of people to whom you admit you're dumb as a stump. This was very fast so thanks to all 170 of you. :)
Second method (with plane) is also stretching the whole geometry, from what I can see on the video. First method is neat. Nice tutorial. Thanks! Edit: and pretty old one, I just have looked on the date. YT algorithm is unpredictable.
That is one of the best tips I've seen for Blender. Not unlike the MachinMesh addon's plug feature, which is the most appealing part of that pay for addon. Thanks for sharing. Just wish I could get it to real time Boolean for objects with some interior geometry below the origin of the object, so I can place it just right before actually merging objects. Maybe I'm missing a setting of some sort, or my modifier stack is arranged wrong? If you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks again. You're awesome. 👍💪
Awesome and useful tip - and WTH with the down vote, is that person the one that accidentally clicked the wrong icon and should have been on emore like, cause you cannot NOT like this simple video........?
Really very useful tutorial! Thank you! but i'm having some prolems while i apply the modifiers. Could you explain how to apply all the modifiers using the grid method?
I already had excellent results without the data transfer, still love this trick. I do noticed that cycles doesnt seem to see the data transfer. it looks like its rendered without it?
I did this and it really looks better if your asset is hard and should not deform. My question is what if my geometry is deeper than the surface. Just like meshmachine plugs?
Is there anyway to do that with modifiers. I want to make my own details, not use some else, so is there a workflow on how to do it? Are those called normal maps? please help. Thank you for your response by the way.
Hi great tips thanks! But do you get black overlapped faces artifacts when rendering? how do you solve that? or do you always attach the mesh at the end and "sew" everything together?
Could you do a continuation of this video showing how to seamlessly snap details that go below the surface? I want to carve details into the surface on my normal map and unsure the best method for doing this. I'm making a halberd and want to put fantasy patterns and symbols that go below the surface.
Max Puliero it's still a booleaned surface so with hard ops I'd still need to clean up and make everything quad for the subdiv to function. Could you explain what about hard ops would make it easier to clean up after boolean? And forget about hard ops being 5 bucks cheaper, which would you pick up? I've heard of hard ops a lot and I saw mr sorbias did a video on meshmachine but it sounds like hard ops is the more useful and robust of the two. I'm going to buy hard ops I think regardless but I'd love to hear your an opinion from your expertise. On my blade I made a circle and some zig zag patterns and booleaned and I cleaned it up and it works but just wanted to know if that's the best way to approach the problem. Can't find any videos on carving out design shapes from weapons anywhere. I was thinking of using them as floating geometry and then use your method in this video to snap the outside higher area to the surface and then mask out the polygons on the blade where it intersects with the carving. But also looking for a way to ensure the cut is the same distance into the weapon along a slightly curved surface. I've been using shrinkwrap for that so far. Sorry to talk your ear off but I've been messing with this for weeks now.
at certain degrees modeling is still a complicate thing to do, so I think there are a tricks involved when you try to get some specific result. the only thing you can do is knowing very good your tools and use them together to get what you need. There is not a single way to do stuff, and mostly depend on how fast are you or how much you know your tools, (ex: something that you can do super fast, for me can take ages.)
Max Puliero I certainly like to take my time and know something 100% before I experiment with it and need to break that habit. I'm thinking I'm overcomplicating things though and perhaps I should just keep adding edge loops and insets to the surface until I can manipulate the shapes into it I want. I was hoping I could find a boolean way to do it and it works but it takes way longer than just modeling in the shapes and not needing cleanup. Thanks though, your stuff among other peoples have been a giant inspiration to me.
Yesterday night i have recreated your training and i was happy:), but looks these small information pieces what i can learn from tutorials is not enough for me to make more complex changes. If i can send you, can you check possible to do what i want and give a price offer for it?
I think it's the first time I see the data transfer modifier in action, thanks
What is that step for tough? Still dont get it :(
@@joacocavo2745 It makes the faces and normals of the object match those of the surface so at the end they appear to be one single mesh
Years ago, fresh into 3d I saw this and did not understand. Just stumbled over it and cannot say how much I appreciate this genius technique. Thanks!
Wow. That data transfer modifier is like the biggest mindblowing moment i've ever seen from every Blender tutorial. Thanks a lot, sir!
That's so freakin' violent. I never even noticed the weight option when assigning vertex groups. Absolutely amazing tip. Thanks !
That was totally unexpected. Gorgeous hint!
One of the best tutorials ever. I was banging my head since all day, finally found this tutorial. Thanks
this is probably...no.. this is hands down the best tip on blender hard surface modeling. This is gold, priceless. A big big "thank you" from Tuscany ;)
I saw a video talk about shrinkwrap modifier in hard surface modeling,but I found the shading is some kind weird.The data transfer just solves the problem,Thanks a lot!
A "simple"solution for a complicated problem. Applause! Thanks for sharing.
Dude you're like the military to science - always one step ahead of the public :D Awesome stuff
the end of 2022 and I see this tutorial as god lvl tip
Thank you for this effective solution to the glueing problem. You saved a lot of time for a lot of people, good sir!
if they are parented, sibling or child. use the select by type feater under the selection tab. it's faster if you know the shortcut
This is EXACTLY what i've been looking for this past week but i couldn't find. Thank you so much!!!
Wow! Simple yet very effective solution. Thanks for sharing!
That's a proper snap system, gratz for the tip. Maybe, someday 3dsmax will have something like that too
now i can finally make some good looking hull plating, Thankss!!
still saving lives -- like on this project trying to make porcelain figurines in blender. thank you!
I keep loosing this video, but it's worth the search every time! Thanks for sharing your technique!
This is gold! And if you desperately need it for a project, diamond!
Thank you from one of the guys that didn't know these tricks. Pretty awesome.
Very VERY good tutorial, my friend!!!!! And very helpful!!!!
Very clever, thanks!
thanks dude :D
Yes, it's nice, still have to finish my projection modal ^^
Hi MACHIN3 :) Is this how plug-it works ?
@@remon563 No, it's not.
lol hey
I can't believe how useful this tutorial is despite being 3 years old and I'm using Blender 2.9 now.
Thanks Max. Very useful.
I have been looking for how to do this for a while, great video
dude...you are a genius! thanks!
Life Saver! you don't know how long i've been trying to get it snap like this! Thank you!
always 110% useful tips man!
Awesome, I have been looking for a solution to this for a long time. Thanks!
Great tip, Max! Thanks for putting it up there :)
Well done - saves a painful trip to Fusion 360 !
It's AWESOME. Thanks Max.
Glad it worked for so many. My object doesn't turn and pivot with the surfaces to which it is shrink wrapped. I suspect I'm missing something when it comes to freezing the object.
Oh Snap! Snap was turned off. I find that the speed at which you can figure out a solution is directly related to the number of people to whom you admit you're dumb as a stump. This was very fast so thanks to all 170 of you. :)
This is really fantastic. Thank you.
Thanks for this amazing technique
Wonderful tip. If I knew I would make an addon applying all this wisdom.
That is really nice! Thanks! :)
good to kno that even tutorial guys dont know everything
Thank you for sharing. This is very useful. Perfect for my coming projects.
You should release some blender tutorials for people getting started, you seem to know your stuff.
Second method (with plane) is also stretching the whole geometry, from what I can see on the video. First method is neat. Nice tutorial. Thanks! Edit: and pretty old one, I just have looked on the date. YT algorithm is unpredictable.
All these years I had no idea this was possible
Excellent. Pro work
This has saved me hours of work now, thank you.
this is absolute witchcraft, thank you for sharing your powers
Best tutorials on youtube! Really educative!
Beautiful tutorial, I really needed this
That is one of the best tips I've seen for Blender. Not unlike the MachinMesh addon's plug feature, which is the most appealing part of that pay for addon. Thanks for sharing. Just wish I could get it to real time Boolean for objects with some interior geometry below the origin of the object, so I can place it just right before actually merging objects. Maybe I'm missing a setting of some sort, or my modifier stack is arranged wrong? If you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks again. You're awesome. 👍💪
You can use surface deform or lattice but should use it only on decal base, so it does not deform whole model
still a great tutorial 2 years later
You should write an article on this tutorial. I want to practice it.
That's clever ! Exactly what I need ! Thanks for sharing !
I've been searching for this stuff for so long. thx, mate
Very interesting method. Thanks for sharing.
Really great Max !!! Thanks for the tips
Today is the best day of my life. Thank you.
This is pure genius!
Priceless trick, it is shame i can't like it 100 times. Thank you, sir!
Awesome and useful tip - and WTH with the down vote, is that person the one that accidentally clicked the wrong icon and should have been on emore like, cause you cannot NOT like this simple video........?
Ha!! Perfect analysis!!
Download button :))
Thanks, that's a useful tip.
I didn't know you could do that! :) Awesome! Thanks dude.
You are a genius!!!
Wow this is awesome. Blender is getting another best of ZBrush feature!
Now I'm wondering can the duplicates be done by drawing a path, or be "sprayed on"... Would be fun to plant trees or fences that way...
You might want to check the asset sketcher addon. Though it is not free...
Nice work! Thanks for sharing. Keep it up!
Awesome! Very helpful
Hey man great video!
Have you though about using face instances instead of 2 objects for the deforming version?
AWESOME!! thanks a lot Max
oh god I had no idea about this, modeling just got 300% easier lol
Thanks for sharing this man. You are great.
AWESOME tutorial
You Sir are a Master. I bow to thee.
Thanks man, that was very helpful, awesome.
Sweet and thanks for sharing.
Thank you super useful method
Still valuable info. Thank you.
Any chance you could explain how to apply the modifiers and also a boolean to make it one mesh ?
no boolean operations are involved here.
Wow amazing... just what I want.
This is great! Thank you very much for sharing this!
thanks,man,this is awesome
Really very useful tutorial! Thank you!
but i'm having some prolems while i apply the modifiers.
Could you explain how to apply all the modifiers using the grid method?
Very Helpful thanks
Thank you so much, I used this method :D
Brilliant! Thank you Max
3:55 what key did he press to make the object only move on the surface of susanne?
very nice. thanks!
Thank you for this tutorial!
Levelled up! Thanks.
This is a very useful video, thanks very much!
awesome tip, works great!
Great! Now I know it... - after all the kick is the data transfer modifier which I never used before!
Very nice, thank you.
Awesome! Good input!
I already had excellent results without the data transfer, still love this trick. I do noticed that cycles doesnt seem to see the data transfer. it looks like its rendered without it?
Это просто гениально!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did this and it really looks better if your asset is hard and should not deform. My question is what if my geometry is deeper than the surface. Just like meshmachine plugs?
you should use meshmachine xD
Is there anyway to do that with modifiers. I want to make my own details, not use some else, so is there a workflow on how to do it? Are those called normal maps? please help. Thank you for your response by the way.
Hi great tips thanks! But do you get black overlapped faces artifacts when rendering? how do you solve that? or do you always attach the mesh at the end and "sew" everything together?
yeah... this works only in opengl, I suggest to purchase meshmachine addon to have something more reliable for renders. :)
hi, thanks for useful video!) and can i make concave geometry using your method?
These is amazing man! Did you try baking high poly made these way to low poly?
it works good with normal maps, probably you will notice a seam with ambient occlusion.
Thank you for your replay :)
Could you do a continuation of this video showing how to seamlessly snap details that go below the surface? I want to carve details into the surface on my normal map and unsure the best method for doing this.
I'm making a halberd and want to put fantasy patterns and symbols that go below the surface.
for that thake a look at meshmachine or hardops addons :)
Max Puliero it's still a booleaned surface so with hard ops I'd still need to clean up and make everything quad for the subdiv to function. Could you explain what about hard ops would make it easier to clean up after boolean?
And forget about hard ops being 5 bucks cheaper, which would you pick up? I've heard of hard ops a lot and I saw mr sorbias did a video on meshmachine but it sounds like hard ops is the more useful and robust of the two. I'm going to buy hard ops I think regardless but I'd love to hear your an opinion from your expertise.
On my blade I made a circle and some zig zag patterns and booleaned and I cleaned it up and it works but just wanted to know if that's the best way to approach the problem. Can't find any videos on carving out design shapes from weapons anywhere.
I was thinking of using them as floating geometry and then use your method in this video to snap the outside higher area to the surface and then mask out the polygons on the blade where it intersects with the carving. But also looking for a way to ensure the cut is the same distance into the weapon along a slightly curved surface. I've been using shrinkwrap for that so far. Sorry to talk your ear off but I've been messing with this for weeks now.
at certain degrees modeling is still a complicate thing to do, so I think there are a tricks involved when you try to get some specific result.
the only thing you can do is knowing very good your tools and use them together to get what you need.
There is not a single way to do stuff, and mostly depend on how fast are you or how much you know your tools, (ex: something that you can do super fast, for me can take ages.)
Max Puliero I certainly like to take my time and know something 100% before I experiment with it and need to break that habit.
I'm thinking I'm overcomplicating things though and perhaps I should just keep adding edge loops and insets to the surface until I can manipulate the shapes into it I want. I was hoping I could find a boolean way to do it and it works but it takes way longer than just modeling in the shapes and not needing cleanup.
Thanks though, your stuff among other peoples have been a giant inspiration to me.
Yesterday night i have recreated your training and i was happy:), but looks these small information pieces what i can learn from tutorials is not enough for me to make more complex changes. If i can send you, can you check possible to do what i want and give a price offer for it?
Awesome. Very usefull