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javierdl
10-27-2009, 04:52 PM
Let's just say I need more density on the faces of my cube or plane, but I prefer not to use a modifier to achieve this. Can't I just adjust the number of faces/edges each side will be made with?

Thanks,

JDL
Elamd
10-27-2009, 06:25 PM
If I understand you properly, I don't think you can do this with a cube or a plane.

Are you thinking of something like Max, where you can adjust the creation parameters?
javierdl
10-27-2009, 06:58 PM
Are you thinking of something like Max, where you can adjust the creation parameters?

Exactly.

JDL
Elamd
10-27-2009, 07:34 PM
Well, in 2.49 you can't afaik.

In 2.5 you can for most meshes, but not a plane or cube. And the implementation looks a little buggy to me, but I can't tell for sure. For instance, you can create a uv sphere and then change the initial creation parameters, but if you translate it, the option disappears.
javierdl
10-27-2009, 09:36 PM
I suppose 2.5 is still beta isn't it?

Thanks Elamd,

JDL
Yecire
10-28-2009, 12:56 AM
Actually it's still alpha ... beta should come later next month.

And no, what you describe is not possible in 2.4x.
KayosIII
10-28-2009, 06:00 AM
If you just need to increase the density uniformly you could do a subdivide multi operation in edit mode.

Hit [TAB] to get into edit mode if you aren't already and hit the [w] key then select "subdivide_multi" choose the number number of cuts and go.

This has the disadvantage of not being procedural (like the max aproach is) but should take less steps than a modifier.
KayosIII
10-28-2009, 06:19 AM
how do you do this in 2.5 I have had a quick look and I couldn't find anything. What am I missing?
Yecire
10-28-2009, 07:51 AM
how do you do this in 2.5 I have had a quick look and I couldn't find anything. What am I missing?

Check in the bottom left panel after doing your subdivide ... you can change the number of cuts, add a smoothing effect on top of it and/or a fractal element to the subdivision.
KayosIII
10-28-2009, 04:11 PM
Ok that is the subdivide mesh operations I mentioned in my post. The interface for 2.5 is much nicer.... And is probably the best solution.

What the original poster was asking about - is that most of the Objects in mesh start out as a proceedural object rather than a dumb mesh. You can set the number of subdivisions for length, width and height individually. AFAIK blender does not do this...
javierdl
10-29-2009, 01:52 AM
This helped big time, thank you guys :)

JDL
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