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G2Art  
#1 Posted : Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:22:49 PM(UTC)
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Hi,

I've been trying to convert pretty simple 3D Shark FX models into meshes for SubD modeling.

The "change object type" command wil create a mesh but these meshes seem really unwieldy - please see attached screenshots.

The dialog box provides a combination of parameters but I do not know how to set them to produce a clean and simple SubD mesh.

If there is a way to do that, I'd really appreciate some pointers as this would be a very useful tool to me, and perhaps many others. I can see that SubD modeling can be very powerful.

Thanks.

Mark
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Craig  
#2 Posted : Friday, February 26, 2016 12:11:57 AM(UTC)
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Have you used the update button?
G2Art  
#3 Posted : Friday, February 26, 2016 10:46:47 AM(UTC)
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Yes, I have. The problem is how to set the parameters without endless trial and error.
Tim Olson  
#4 Posted : Friday, February 26, 2016 1:46:17 PM(UTC)
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>> The dialog box provides a combination of parameters but I do not know how to set them to produce a clean and simple SubD mesh.

Hi Mark

The Convert To Mesh option creates a facetted body with all triangles or a mixture of triangles & quads. There is not an option to create a quad only mesh.

The Mixed/Fringe 1 option will produce the most quads, but not all quads. This creates triangle facets along all face boundaries(the "fringe"). Attached is an image with Fringe1 and Fringe2 faceting.

I think a clean simple SubD mesh would be all smoothly flowing quads. Something you would get from using SubD tools to create the model.

PowerPack has a bunch of tools to manipulate meshes. I use them to tweak meshes into better subd models for conversion to solids. But it is far from automatic . There are apps out there that will create a good "automatic" SUBD mesh from an arbitrary mesh such 3d-coat or z brush. They use a technique called remeshing which rebuilds a subd mesh from an existing mesh.

This link below has some videos showing some of the techniques I've found useful including a video about Retopology and 3D-Coat that might be of interest.
http://masterviacad.com/powerpackoverview/ppvideos/ppvideos.html



Tim

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G2Art  
#5 Posted : Friday, February 26, 2016 1:56:26 PM(UTC)
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Thanks, Tim, understood.

I had the feeling that with better skills with SubD tools it would be fairly easy to create a clean model.

Thanks for the link as well.
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