Ideas for modelling this in max...

[gerald.untario]

Hi all,

 

I have this model in sketchup, but I want to get the roof form in 3ds max. In sketchup its pretty blocky, because I used the 'soap, skin, bubble' plugin, and I was wondering whether I can create this kind of roof form in max which will give me a better high-poly result. If possible, controllable through some value or something. Thanks guys!

 

P.S. - In sketchup, to get a higher poly using the soap skin bubble will take ages for it to calculate the bubble.

[Matt McDonald]

you might be able to do it with a loft object or, import the geometry, create a series of arcs (by snapping to the imported geometry, like the arcs together using additional splines and then applying the surface modifer to it.

[gerald.untario]

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I will give it a try straight away and let you know!

[sanmb]

Hi Gerald,

I will suggest to use edit poly modelling.

You can search on youtube,there are many tutorials.

[pailhead]

In order to get this, you can be more liberal with modeling your shape (could be a loft, could be edit poly) but be sure to use the slice modifier to get the planar base.

[NeWAcEiN]

here's the trick draw sphere make it hemisphere, now convert it to editable po,ly del. bottom planer faces now u have hollow hemisphere now here u have to imagine what u r up to what kindaa shape u want to model -> now apply FFD BOX modifier on top of sphere, set the desired subdivisions and start tweaking . the screenshots u provided is so fast and simple to achieve using FFD

give it a try !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!