Boolean Cut

[limey BSc.]

Lol, nice tut mate.. funny that guys did not know that..  defianetly need to go into tuts section, but you may need a new post 

I'd just never considered right clicking on the snap button! I use the different snaps all the time (angle mainly), but never really explored it much.

I REALLY need to make a video tutorial or five.

At least I always like seeing how other people do stuff. I'm like the borg, I assimilate other peoples techniques :assimilate

[MarkyD]

I here what your saying mate, I only learned that technique 2 years ago, but I thought everyone knew it.. 

 

there ya go... needs to go in the tuts section... well the you tube vid does  ;)

The remainder of the thread can go in the bin  :wtf

 

[baz1701]

Great tutorial, though the hole is better still have mesh errors?

Pic shows old boolan cut and new vert cut

[Furyofaseraph]

You might want to add another loop around the bottom of the hull and then connect the verts of the cutout to that instead - sort of give it some room to straighten out.

Are you sure you don't have any duplicate verts, too?

[baz1701]

right took another stab at it and it is 95% better

[Furyofaseraph]

If you build it really low poly, and then put a turbosmooth on it with smoothing groups intact - you can get a lot more curves into it - all you have to do is go in and remove and unneeded edge loops.

[Phaser]

I would not boolean for a deflector cutout (Actually, I wouldn't use boolean for ANYTHING, but thats just me). Here's a technique I've had better luck with.

Cookie for that, Furyofaseraph.  That's a huge help.  Thanks!

[baz1701]

I second, third and forth that.

[Furyofaseraph]

Thanks guys :-)

[candle_86]

gonna start using it myself, and other good news im back i just spend the last couple days in the hospital got surgery

[candle_86]

hey im out of the model game, i had all my computers die, I had to buy a Pentium II with the little bit of cash i had, so don't expect anything at all from me

[Daystar70]

UGh that sucks dude! listen, don't give up. I once had stockpiles of customised modeling files on a computer and was midway thru a 3-d superhero comic that was going awesome, it was gut wrenching when my click of death came, i struggled to preserve my files and did manage to preserver a good chunk of them. Over time i managed to rebuild a library on new system. It kills motivation though i totally get that. But i recommend you rebuild your resources..and then back shit up. There is nothing out there that can't be backed up in the 3-d modelling world.

[Furyofaseraph]

I feel your pain - I actually just nearly lost all my data on a harddrive that was going south. I already backed it all up, though.

[candle_86]

it wasnt just data it was CPU, Ram and video that went.

[Daystar70]

We get that dude. were just saying when u say your done modeling it doesn't require ..eh  NM. Sorry for your loss.