Questions tagged [subdivision-surface]
Use this tag for questions involving Blender's Subdivision Surface modifier
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What's the difference between the various Open Subdiv compute types?
It seems there are 5 different available "compute types". what are these compute types? What's the difference between them?
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Subsurf on a crown. How can I smooth some edges and keep others sharp?
How can I smooth all crown but don't smooth the top of the crown? I did a subdivision surface, but this didn't work. All crown became smooth and changed form.
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Subdivide Button in Blender 2.8
In Blender 2.8 i have been unable to find the location of the subdivide button in any menu in edit mode and have only been able to get it using the search key. The lack of any keybind is also making ...
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When and when not to use subdivsion surfaces?
I am new to 3D modelling and wondering if someone could break down when and when not to use subdivision surface modelling. I am thinking more in terms of hard surface stuff. Why wouldn't you always ...
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How do I straighten just the inner hole of this mesh?
I'm attempting to make a combination wrench. The hole is supposed to be hexagonal, but I can't figure out how to sharpen the edges without causing pinching on the outer side of the wrench when I use a ...
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How would you model a pyramid pattern?
I’m trying to model this kettle with a pyramid pattern on the lower side of the kettle. The problem that I am facing is that I have a Subdivision Surface modifier on the object to give it that smooth ...
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How to model those stylized trunks (See image)
Currently trying to do some stylized trees; i am struggling to do those trunks.
Tried some subdivision surface but I can't make the corners nice at 90°
I bet there's a nicer way to do it; maybe with ...
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How do I subdivide smooth in blender 2.8? [duplicate]
Previously I could that in specials menu, but it seems that there is no such option in 2.8 version.
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I am not at all able to paint weight paint on the plane
I am new to Blender and I am using Blender 3.0.0
I am trying to weight paint this plane but I am unable to do it to at least a single vertex. I subdivided the plane many times but I am unable to paint....
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Visible gaps in mesh when using adaptive subdiv and multiple materials
No matter what I try, I can't close a visible displacement gap between materials when I'm using Adaptive Subdivision.
Enabling Auto-Smooth in the normal options fixes gaps on the corners of objects ...
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How to subdivide triangles into four triangles with Geometry Nodes?
I need to subdivide a mesh of equilateral triangles so that each triangle gets subdivided into four new equilateral triangles. I want to use Geometry Nodes because I want to set the subdivision level ...
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Blender render crash when using subsurf modifiers
Essentially, my problem is that I am trying to render a scene, however, blender crashes on me early during the render.
I only have about 14 total objects in the scene. (It's not that complex)
I tried ...
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Constructing a hexagonal shape from quads (Bolt)
I want to model a bolt with a hexagonal inset (allen/hex key). The issue is, that I have not achieved this yet.
I have attempted multiple things, but they resulted in n-gons/tris or are not ...
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How can I fix the topology of a heptagon?
I've modeled the following screw on which I have applied a subdivision. I managed to fix most of its bad topologies, but I can't wrap my head around the following scenario. I have this heptagon that I ...
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Billions of loop cuts
Been modeling for 1.5 month now, and realized that my biggest struggle in every model are proximity loops cuts. Particularily in this model when I wanted to "cut-out" sound pickups (green) I had to ...
