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Halogen
05-02-2003, 06:40 PM
Hello fellow cinema4d users. For those who find it easier to model a car in one whole mesh then detail it, and find it hard to create those nice flowing meshes that kevinA showed us, i just wrote a tutorial showing how you can do it. Im not sure if this has been suggested before but i decided i may as well do it. Im sorry if it doesnt make any sense but i just wrote it at 1am :\. Well here it is, my first tutorial, i hope it helps those looking for a winning seam with one whole mesh.

BTW Im sure there is a shorter way (its still pretty short) but if there is, may as well tell everyone... Heres the link:

http://members.tripod.co.uk/halogen3d/meshseams.html
Excuse lycos if it doesnt work.


Enjoy!

~Halogen
pit
05-02-2003, 08:47 PM
Not to rain on your parade, but:
This can be done, in a fraction of the time of your method, with the edge tools - (it will produce some tris, but they are easily removed with the melt function and the bridge tool )

Nice effort though:thumbsup:
Cinema1954
05-02-2003, 10:27 PM
Or without edge tools: Select the polys you want to place a seam around, extrude by -2 or -3, extrude inner by .5, extrude by 2 or 3. This leaves it as all one mesh; if you want to separate it from the main mesh, just hit Selection - Grow once, then Structure - Edit Surface - Split.
handige_harrie
05-03-2003, 01:31 AM
2 methods I use:

1)select polys -> inner extrude very slightly -> extrude inwards very slightly -> extrude inwards as far as you like -> extrude outwards twice just as far as you did inwards just before -> inner extrude very slightly.

2)select edges -> bevel or extrude (can't remember which) very slightly -> extrude inwards very slightly -> extrude inwards as far as you like.

!)Before doing this putting a low poly mesh in a hypernurbs (1-3x subdiv) and making it editable helps a lot when you also want sharp corners. Put this mesh with the seams in a new hypernurbs and you get the smoothity (is that a word? :D) back.

I tried KevinA's method, but I will have to practice more before I will get a nice result using it.
Halogen
05-03-2003, 01:47 AM
meh it was 1am, what was i thinking? oh well good practice for other tutorials i might want to write :\
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