High Poly tuts/Tips Please

[Levitateme]

hi mr.F

if i were you, i would stick with a low base mesh. use like the toggle smooth script that is on cgtalks mel script thread. that way you can see what your mesh is gonig to look like smooth. or you can use proxy, and from your model lit looks like you know what your doing in maya. so im sure you know about the proxy, but i think the toggle smooth is invaluable.

[Mr. Ferguson]

Yeah, I am sticking in the low poly mesh and thats all I work with. After I make signifigant tweaks I convert it to subdivs and then back and start some more work. I was just curious if it was a valid method, or if I was using bad form.

[Levitateme]

I dont see a reason to switch to sub d everytime. why not switch to smooth? i would think it would be faster. either way it sounds like you know what your doing.

[Mr. Ferguson]

Yeah, I uh....just discovered the smooth option, and it sure is alot faster than switching to subs.


I tried to get that smooth toggle mel script working but the couple times I tried it didn't do anything.

[TomD]

Why not stay in Subdivisions, but in polygon modus? (right click the Subdiv model > polygon)

To speed things up, turn Construction history off.
Don't delete too much edges, the polygon to subdiv algorithm doesn't like that (you can though, but at a significant speed cost)
In the case that a split or an extrude takes too long, undo a few steps and find another way to get what you want.

And last but not least. Put the PolyCage and the Subdivisions in different layers. This way you can easily hide/unhide the cage or the Subdiv.
(You can use the Outliner or the Hypergraph to select only the PolyCage or the Subdiv)


Question: What are the advantages of PolySmoothProxy, when there are subdivisions?

[Mr. Ferguson]

Well, Sub-D in polygon proxy mode is really slow for me even without history bogging it down. When you hide the sub-d and just work on the polygon proxy does that speed things up very much? Just working with the polygons seems super fast compared to even smooth proxy, or polygon proxy mode w/sub-d.

And I do want the model to be a polygonal model when its done so switcthing to and from poly smoothing seems like it could be a better method for this project. I was using subdivisions because it was the only method I knew of to get a smoother looking model with a low res base mesh.

[Goon]

Study wireframes. LOTS of wireframes.

METAGONS wireframe depot (http://www.metagons.com/wiredepot01.htm)

[MunCHeR]

Here is a link to the smooth toggle script, took me ages to find it, then again i only have anough energy to keep 1 eye open :buttrock:

www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14082&perpage=15&highlight=toggle%20smooth%20script&pagenumber=8 (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14082&perpage=15&highlight=toggle%20smooth%20script&pagenumber=8)

[Levitateme]

that is plays old script you want this one.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14082&perpage=15&highlight=toggle%20smooth%20script&pagenumber=9

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