Graphics – Page 10 – TAGENIGMA LLC

Belt Loop

I added a belt loop to my pants WIP. And a belt.

Modo UVs

I think I got the hang of how to setup the UVs for my pants. I was able to remove the seams I didn’t want. Now I just need to model some detail into the pants.

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I’d like to know if there’s a way to easily extend an edge loop using existing edges in Modo. The last frame of the animation lasts for 5 seconds while I circled the area where I want the edge to be contiguous.

And why is the color of the wireframes different on each leg?

I learned some techniques on the forums about how to manually cleanup extra verteces and polygons.

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Wrinkle Displacement Map

I sat down with Modo 302 and modeled some basic pants. I got the hang of how to create an image displacement map, which I used to cause wrinkles in the pants. I need to figure out how to get better UV seams and model some details into the pants, like pockets and threading. [VertexMonkey] has several [skin material presets].

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Modo 301 Camera

Just for the heck of it, I modeled the Modo wireframe camera.

More of the Shoe Part 2 (continued)

Now it’s time to layer the pieces of the shoe so they appear to overlap.

In the end, the objective is to shape the front and heal into the red parts of the shoe to look something like this.

Related: [shoe21.lxo]

More of the Shoe Part 2

I spent an hour correcting the poly flow of the heal and toe portion of the shoe. Things are getting easier now.

The main take away is the poly flow. You can see here the evenly space polys and how they alll line up vertically and horizontally. Also each poly maintains four sides and the model has an equal amount of polygon rows and columns across the model.

The previous image resulted from cleaning up the creased and chaotic polys from this. I found myself spending more time on cleanup than actually modeling the original polys.

So far my favorite cleanup tools are: edge bridge, edge sew, polygon, edge slice, and the move tool.

Related: [post] [shoe_019.lxo]

Sports Shoe

I’m following the [Luxology shoe tutorial]. And after two days of modeling, I have the shoe insert structure done. Things go a lot faster now. Knowing when to sew, bridge, polygon, and edge slice makes things easier.

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On the second part, the bridge tool is used to make the shoe lace eyelets. But the example process didn’t work for me. I found another way to bridge the inner ring by selecting these two loops and then hitting bridge.

Other fallback is to select and bridge two edge loops in edge mode.

Here is a test render of my shoe halfway thru part 2.

Versions: [shoe_012.lxo]

Van Helsing

Sonk on the Modo forums was chatting about morph maps and referred to this example.

The plan is to animate this sequence in Modo.

And possibly get the mouth to open using either a vertex map or morph map or both.

Using fonts to make a hand

Sketch3d has an [example tutorial] of how to use the Wingdings font in order to create a cartoon hand.

Delete the inner edge by selecting edge and double clicking the inner edge. Hit the delete key.

Create a new mesh item and use the pen tool to trace the hand in front view.

Next create a net to constrain over the hand like this [tutorial video].

Something needs to be done with the jagged outer edge.

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Mirror (WIP)

I had an odd idea about making about $10 worth of mirror/easels to redirect more light into the house to reduce the heating bill. It’s still a work in progress, but I sketched out something like this.

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1080p Movie Creation

I’m trying to create a 1080p movie, which should be 1440×1080 pixels. But for some reason, Microsoft Movie Maker adds a gray background, when I try to publish at the correct size.