How to cut two holes in a sphere? On top and side

[Goon]

edit: nvrmind. Dumb post.

[Northchild]

Boolean subtract?

[Hexodam]

boolean works, but if I put meshsmooth on the sphere everything goes nuts because of the polygon distribution

[ilka]

fixing the verts might help ;)

[holosynthetic]

I have an image that shows 4 basic steps on how to do this, I don't have anywhere to upload the image so if you would like it give me your email address and i'll send it to you

(i would have uploaded it to that new image upload page found in that thread in general discussions but the link doesn't work for me so no deal)

[Hexodam]

holosynthetic,
I think I sent you an email, used cgtalk thing to do it

[jum'bok]

after reading the theoretical subd thread (you should check it out), it seems the best way to do it is this.

http://www.neuroticana.com/images/spherehelp.jpg

on the left i chamfered a vertex, and on the right i removed the vertex.

you probably shouldn't use the pole as one of the holes to remove, because then the two spheres will have differing degrees of smoothness.

[Hexodam]

jum'bok,
thats kinda the way I figured out how to do it

Here is holosynthetic's way
http://notendur.centrum.is/~czar/3d/sphere.jpg

here is my way
http://notendur.centrum.is/~czar/3d/MakingHoleInBalls.jpg

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