Some surfaces behaviour makes me confused

[muadib3d]

at the end - patches layout

 

[muadib3d]

white edition

 

[muadib3d]

and the black one

 

[james.lynch]

well done!! it looks great!


- now the next thing.. howdo you make it? where are the parting/witnesslines? where can you draft from with minilal impact to the design?

 

[design-engine]

maybe that draft would not be the next thing but the first thing?

 

[[-Skint-]]

Ahh just die-cast it in Zinc Alloy .. easy

Yeah nice job though Jacek, looks great.

 

[muadib3d]

Drafts? I do not care about such details.

It is manufacuterer problem, not mine

truely, there is none because I did not intend to use them.

But, if anyone feels to be strong to put them in, I`ll share model right here

for sure, thanks for attention and good words

 

[design-engine]

I have a technique that will allow modifications to the parting surface while all the other geometry updates perfectly.

 

[muadib3d]

I stoped counting techniques I considered as possible some time ago. It is like that - I sit and think how I can bite the thing. I try it first on paper. Sketch propable curves network and so on. I assume it costs me more time than modeling itself.

Ussualy I start new part each time I have better - different idea to handle some cases. Taking this I end up with tons of models which are very similar to each other.

However it is good then, while I see each step of improvement or fail I made during whole process.

 

[muadib3d]

white edition final version

 

[muadib3d]

and two more

 

[muadib3d]

black edition - final version

 

[muadib3d]

two more

 

[muadib3d]

as I promised - model of mouse challange.

I`ve finaly cleaned it up enough to put it here and to provide the model structure in more order.

Anyway I hope You will enjoy it.


2008-07-09_071657_a4tech-mouse_6.prt.rar

 

[[-Skint-]]

Jacek, thanks for sharing the file. I will gladly save it and take a look through it at some point. Its great being able to see how other achieve things.

 

[muadib3d]

have fun playing with it

for me it has come time to take a break for a while. I feel totaly burnt out of this challange

 

[jeff4136]

Yes. Ditto on that. And I'm glad it's WF2 readable so I don't miss out.

 

[muadib3d]

jeff for some reasons we ride the same bike - no AAX, BMX, ISDX, etc. Same I have guaranty I open models from You.

Hence, I`ve closed this subject just right now. I took some extra investigations after I uploaded model. Might be right direction to follow in future, but not now, not today.

Take a look specialy on top surf made by BB, and side one. I hope there is usefull way to bite them with VSS. I decided to choose BB, while I like to construct new elemets using existing geom, which often provides quite good curve - last group for Buttons.

 

[muadib3d]

Lately I got rid of almost all feats which built mouse model. I took some extra investigations to handle final top surf and the side ones without any sketched or created via points curves.

Hence, it appeared to be possible and what more - it delivered much better effects than original approach.

So what first is visible most is lack of extra patches and sh*ty edges I obtained in the previous approach



now it looks as below

 

[muadib3d]

The core idea behind my new modeling approach was to base mostly on Boundary Blend surfaces which finaly provide required curves.

This, probably looks like I got crazy, but in the end it appeared that BB gives much more control over edges with curvatures on both side rather than ordinary Curves through points