Edge Modeling

[driverjase]

Its a great way to model, here's two of the best tutorials I've seen using this technique:

Joan of Arc (http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp)

Fiat 500 (http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/fiat500/fiat500.asp)

[MRAY]

Check this guys stuff out he's amazing!
he's got a tutorial on his you should look at its in maya, although you could port the method over to any 3d app that has some descent poly tools.

Hope this helps.

http://www.antropus.com

[Hexodam]

Thats what I generaly use when I create heads, it allows me to have much greater control over edgeloops

[Marcel]

I've used this technique when I started doing more organic stuff, my experience is that I start to focus too much on the individual parts of the face. I'll spend way too much time working on a mouth, only to find out it's not really possible to connect it to the rest of the face.

For me it is much better to work from a box and gradually cut more detail into it , I have much more overview and it's easier to connect the different parts of the face.

If you think making the start (from box to a rough face mesh) is too hard you, get some good reference cages. Stahlberg has posted an image of a default mesh he uses for every character he starts, look for it in the topology research thread in the modelling forum.

Keep in mind that this is only my personal experience, this might well be the best technique for somebody else...

[off-center]

it' s indeed a nice modeling technique, but i'm so bad in box modeling, the edge technique is nice, but I will stay with splines and patches, works best for me

[gnarlycranium]

When I model a head, I sit there switching repeatedly back and forth between a Poly object and a Mesh object-- I use the extrude edge function in Mesh, and Poly for EVERYTHING else. It would be awfully nice if Poly had that function too. :hmm:

[driverjase]

Hey Gnarly Cranium, what version of Max are you using?
In Max 5 you CAN extrude edge in poly ... just by doing what this thread is talking about, shift+drag.

[SimonReeves]

4.2 there was a wee update to allow it I belive in edit-poly

[gnarlycranium]

I'm using 4.2, of course. Yeahyeahyeah, so I don't get the cool new modeling buttons, or anything-- just shaddap all you snooty updated peoples!! :annoyed:

I have Meshtools, at least. That counts for something, right? Well, except the version seems TOO new, and I ended up with a corrupted scene when I tried to use the 'chamfer while keeping original edges' button. Ah well.

[SimonReeves]

nonono its free

must be on discreets site or someplace

well I assume it was an official thing, maybe I'm wrong [i had a quick look]

[Equinoxx]

get shift+drag in the name of epoly2

here

http://www.maxuser.com/plugins/e/epoly2/

[SimonReeves]

ahh there we go, good ol reliable Equinoxx ;)

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