Thanks señor, glad you liked.

Thank you BOTH! 💖

Woohoo love you Ryu!

Both of you're legend

No problemo

idk, sub-d fundamental is essential, but sometimes trial and error to find the best way to do sth is slower than bulldozing with boolean and clean it up later. We dont know how much time he needed to optimize and try different approach. Also look at the amount of tools he used, not everyone knows that many tools. Some of them are really niche. Another sore point is non-destruct workflow. Keeping in low poly can help with changes later but if you added details and then the client/boss want to change the big shapes? its gonna be painful in pure sub-d, with stacks of boolean you can just change the shapes, when everyone is happy, apply the boolean and clean it up with good topology Edit: not to discret the creator or anything, i learned alot from your vid and you just gave me some more tools to add to my workflow.

@sumdude True true. Different techniques for different situations. When I mentioned I tried different things first, I was referring to the bridge interpolation which didn't work as I expected.

@Bozurk Yeah, I like SubD because of how useful they are to anyone I share the model with, but not having to worry about topology can definitely help when creating a concept mesh where speed is more important than clean topology. So different techniques for different situations.

@@sumdude5172 All the methods used here are transferrable. If you learn to rely on add-on's and go somewhere where they use Maya, 3ds max or Cinema 4d then you may as well say you dont know how to model. Learning hard-ops/box cutter tools without knowing Blender is completely pointless. There are no jobs that require mostly hard-ops/box cutter tools.

Haha

Thanks friend, much appreciated

Glad this video was useful.

Woooo!

We did it!

Thanks friendo, I try to keep em simple nowadays.

Simple and elegant are my middle names

In their defence, I just made a couple of rings.

:D

You dream with Blender?

Thanks

Yup, your way is probably the best way in Blender.

Thanks

Woooo, thanks!

No problem

I agree

I see them all! And thanks.

It's cuz I'm an oooold man, so I am very wise.

@@ArmoredColony :D im the opposite so thats probably why

@@tiddlerfiddler-yh1vh lol

Will do

@@ArmoredColony How can I show you my latest work?

My email, armoredcolony@gmail.com

Also new version of edge flow add-on includes more settings than in guide is. Change iterations from 8 to 1 or your mesh will be broken and when you try to apply the subdivision surface you'll see that the shading is not quite well.

I like josh

In the search menu (press F3), it should be called "ARMORED Crease". When nothing is selected, running the script will crease edges by angle if I remember correctly. If that doesn't work then try doing it in face mode. You can also hotkey it in the same Searcy menu.

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XD

That's cool, I didn't know that. How did you learn this if I may ask? I think I just avoid using the traditional Shift + E method because it feels less precise, and I don't like typing relative values.

@@ArmoredColony I recently had to implement it from scratch for a paper (not yet published). I also don't like Blenders 0-1 crease sharpness system. Internally, the number is converted to e.g. 4.3 which means 4 sharp iterations, followed by one iterations where sharp and smooth are interpolated with 0.3 (that's where the "semi" comes from). All following iterations are smooth. If you are interested in the math, the original paper from pixar is called "subdivision surfaces in character animation" by DeRose et al.

I was more interested in learning about you actually. I confess I'm not very tech savy. Thanks for the explanation.

I would probably use loop cuts in that situation, but for merely coming up with shapes, creasing can be faster

@@ArmoredColony That is why I'm confused in my workflow. Thanks for replying so quick and on an older video too. I'm coming from Modo where I intensely did everything via loop cuts that doing it like this feels alien currently but I'm getting closer to making some kind of transition to Blender. Just taking a lot longer than I'd like

TLDR Do whatever you want unless you're told otherwise. I guess it depends on what you're doing. If you're working for yourself then do whatever you want to do and whatever lets you work fastest, but if you're working at some big studio and they tell you to use control loops then you have to do what they say obviously. But I actually saw a video of a 3D modeler working at ILM I think? I don't know, but he was modeling the Millennium falcon for some movie and he actually just used creasing without any control loops because there were too many parts to model and creasing was way faster.

I like his manly voice.

dont we all@@ArmoredColony

Alrighty

Oloids are for nerds. JK. You're probably better off using CAD software for that.

An Oloid is theoretically just a Convex Hull of two identical circles, one of which is on the perimeter of the other and rotated by 90degrees…. Sooo… it should be just a couple of geo nodes :) Will give it a try tomorrow

That's even more nerdy

@@AArmstrongC sounds interesting!

​@@ArmoredColonyoh come on, the nerdier the better. Admit it.

Indeed

Sorry, but I couldn't understand what you meant.

Oh yeah, the pattern XD

I'm happy that seeing me pushing verts made you happy. I didn't think I was that interesting.

Thanks

I learned by asking questions on Google and copy pasting code from others. Unfortunately, it's not something you can master after watching a single video. Have you tried Chat GPT?

Indeed

Set flow only works if you already have a bit of curvature, that's why I scaled the middle edge loop first before I even tried using set flow.

To answer the questions in your Edit, I used a script for all of those things. It's one of the reasons I don't worry about displaying my shortcuts, because they're calling scripts you probably won't have anyway, so people might press those hotkeys and get confused when nothing happens. The scripts you saw: ARMORED_autosmooth Autosmooth requires 2 things, enabling shade smooth through the RMB menu and then going to the mesh data and enabling Autosmooth, so I decided to combine both of those in a script. ARMORED_subd_view_in_edit Modeling with the SubD modifier enabled can sometimes be slow.This script allows me to toggle its visibility on or off when I'm in Edit mode specifically. ARMORED_fast_crease For the sharpening edges (creasing actually), I used another script that converts the selected faces into a selection of border edges and applies a full strength crease. ARMORED_delete_and_grid_fill Pretty self explanatory. If the script is installed it will automatically appear on your delete menu. You can select the cap of a cylinder for example and replace it with a grid of quads. So they're all relatively simple scripts that you don't exactly need (all the do is save you some extra clicks), but I like to hoykey those that I use a lot. All those scripts are in the Armored Toolkit addon I host on github for free, but if you prefer you can actually download the individual scripts you want instead of the entire addon, as long as you know what blender folder to put them in, otherwise I recommend the addon for easy installation.

@@ArmoredColony Oh nice, good to know!

@@ArmoredColony Oh yes, i downloaded the script before starting the tutorial, and for some reason the delete_and_grid_fill doesn't appear directly on RMB click, i had to go to the main menu and there you can use it, also the crease option i had to go to the main menu. Thanks a lot for the clarification and for sharing and creating the scripts, i think that can save me a lot of time too!!!... Greetings.

@@Totorus Delete and Grid fill only shows up in Edit Mode in the Delete menu (press X), NOT the Rightmouse menu, and yeah, you can search for the scripts you want with the F3 search menu and assign your favorite hotkey from there.

That's one of the free scripts I made to crease faster (download in the description). I gave it a hotkey on my mouse. BUT, you can select edges and crease them normally wish SHIFT + E and then drag your mouse (that's already built into blender).

@@ArmoredColony I understand that we will do edge crease at that stage. thank you

@@ArmoredColony your free plugin is great, thank you very much for it 👏👏👏

Thank you for the kind words. Glad I could help.

@@ArmoredColony thank you

Thank you for the offer but if I ever need this shape again I will just copy paste it. Of course you can do it with vanilla blender. I think I just wanted to show some of my scripts, can't remember.

@@ArmoredColony Okydoky .. I like your work.. I was just surprised to see this called an 'impossible shape' in the original. :)

I believe I watched the same vid, felt that pushing vertices one at a time was silly and made this while showcasing some scripts. But I do believe when you say it can be done even simpler.

If you don't have anyone telling you what to do, then you can do whatever you want. You can even draw it if you prefer.

I used one of my free scripts called Fast Crease (one of many included in my free addon in the description). I have the script bound to a mouse button.

@@ArmoredColony So i can download it and it's called Fast Cease?

Yep, that addon is just a way to group all my scripts in an easy to install way. After installing, you can find them in blender's search menu (F3) and assign your own hotkeys.

@@ArmoredColony Thank you broo 🙏🙏

I believe they all should.

You got it bub!

I believe

My own. I share my stuff in the description.

In the description, the link under Free Scripts and stuff, there's an addon with all my things. From the addon preferences you can click a button and it loads my Theme and matcap.

I already do, in the first link that says Free scripts and stuff. That addon has an option to install my theme the addon preferences.

It looks pretty?

What should I do?

Well im still a newby on modeling ( i use blender to make models to print on fdm) supports dont work too good, if this needs to be machined i whould split it in 2parts(more complex and more weak points)

@@kepler_45 ahhh, that's a good idea

I realy suck at Blender, i can just tink of solutions to balanite the fact i cant even use bridging

Well, I don't know anything about 3d printing, so you know way more than me in that regard

Isn't grow selection CTRL + NUMPAD_PLUS?

Not for Blender, no. There's just so much Blender content on UKposts that it seemed pointless to make more.

@@ArmoredColony bro, but your approach is very simple to understand. You should definitely try it by making basics projects

Sounds good. Can you give me an example of what you were looking for?

@@ArmoredColony like some basics of hard modelling

Yes

Then something is different, check again.

its working on copying the mesh in edit mode

@@whimsical.me1Make sure it's a single Object. Also, there is no bridge edge loop hotkey by default. Select the two edge loops and try searching for Bridge edge loops in the search menu (F3)

@@ArmoredColony thanks it works 🙌

It's in the description, under Free Scripts. That addon contains everything: theme, matcapa, hdris.

@@ArmoredColony Thank you so much :D

@@ArmoredColony Ah y muy buen tutorial!! Saludos desde argentina :D

Oui

Just keep in mind that topology is irrelevant if you do concept art. Also, there's nothing wrong with using blender add-ons if they save you time. Use whatever tools are available to you.

@@ArmoredColony Agree, and you can't escape addons, nor do i want to. Having a few issues with following along, figured out the part with bridgeing, in that i needed to 1st: select both objects/edge mode/ctrl-J/then bridge. Yet the CIRCLE isn't going so well, not complaining, i'll get there eventually. PS your script and its functions are a great asset. Kudos

Yeah, sorry. I could have made the tutorial a little better. I just saw a fun shape and figured I would give it a try with SubD, but that doesn't make my technique perfect by any means. And thanks for the kind words.

@@ArmoredColony Well the main reason i jumped into blender, was to try and 3d print a Star Citizen ship, yet, they're only meant for the Holoviewer, and i soon came to the conclusion it would be quicker to just learn Blender, and do it myself. All good bud

Then you're in luck. The 3d printer doesn't care about good topology; of course, it can help you create cleaner shapes, but my point is you are free to use any software you want. You can even use Plasticity or 3DCoat, but Blender is also one of the better choices, not because it is easy to use but because there's so much educational content out there and all it takes is the time and will to learn it. So just keep at it! Funny enough, I made a star citizen ship concept once, but I never used it for printing: www.artstation.com/artwork/agdQ9

I don't get your meaning