Technical Notes: Week 9

The 8-side rule:

    All tubes should have a number of sides that is a multiple of 8. This makes the topology easier to keep clean and makes things connect better.

 

The Circularise tool is very useful.

    Oana showed me how to use this to round out the arm of my character model by selecting each edge loop one-by-one then using the circularise tool ('g' to quickly use the previous tool).

I used this technique in rounding the fingers as well.

I also learnt how to increase my selection by one loop all at once using shift + , or .

And I accidentally changed my selection tool so it wasn't selecting or something. I did this by clicking while holding 'w' and this was how I was able to undo it as well.

For the tank tread:

• use bezier curve to make the side view curve
• close with curves > open/close
• make an object of a singular groove
• connect to curve
• animation > constraint > motion path
• animation snapshot
• can adjust the graph - make it linear - for more even spacing