WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:03.050 Welcome to using common features. 00:03.150 --> 00:09.830 So in this video we're going to take another look at our reference pieces and then look for commonality. 00:09.840 --> 00:16.310 In order to save us time with our modelling So let's hop over to those pictures now and have a closer 00:16.320 --> 00:16.960 look. 00:17.830 --> 00:22.960 Okay so if we go ahead and take a look at our pieces here so far we've worked on just the porn. 00:22.960 --> 00:24.900 So this one over here. 00:24.900 --> 00:32.120 Now if we have a look across our entire model for common features what we can then do is base upon our 00:32.140 --> 00:33.880 future models that we're going to make. 00:33.880 --> 00:39.840 We can use those based features before we even start the modelling process of any of these pieces. 00:40.060 --> 00:46.000 So so far we've worked out by just looking at all of these that they share roughly the same base which 00:46.000 --> 00:47.970 is why we've made a base to begin with. 00:47.980 --> 00:49.940 And then we've built up into a pawn. 00:50.170 --> 00:54.890 So we have this base component here that we can use again and again. 00:55.090 --> 01:01.180 Now when it comes to these other pieces how many of these other pieces also have a base component. 01:01.210 --> 01:07.600 This one does that one does that one does that in fact they all do their various sorts of sky sort of 01:07.600 --> 01:09.050 shapes and sizes there. 01:09.080 --> 01:10.960 Overall the same shape though. 01:10.990 --> 01:17.110 So these ones are certainly wider than the porn itself and this one is very wide. 01:17.110 --> 01:23.230 If I remember correctly that's 4.5 and all the all these ones were for that was 4.5. 01:23.380 --> 01:25.050 And this one was three. 01:25.120 --> 01:28.510 So it's still a similar shape though and we can see they got various heights. 01:28.540 --> 01:34.780 So as we look at the rock here this one stretched out just a bit more in the vertical direction so it's 01:34.780 --> 01:39.480 worthwhile bearing in mind that we're going to have to modify that mesh. 01:39.550 --> 01:40.600 Let's have a look here. 01:40.600 --> 01:45.790 So this is very similar in fact that can be almost scaled up and it would work. 01:45.790 --> 01:49.090 And the same can be said of this that one. 01:49.090 --> 01:50.840 And indeed that one there. 01:50.890 --> 01:56.560 So there's a common feature that we can use through out our models now instead of just starting from 01:56.560 --> 01:58.660 that single common feature. 01:58.660 --> 02:04.630 There are some other features that you can look at here and start building upon those features before 02:04.630 --> 02:08.440 you start modelling the next piece and this will speed up your workflow. 02:08.470 --> 02:14.000 Now it is important to do this because we want all of our pieces to feel like they're part of a set. 02:14.020 --> 02:19.960 So building them upon one another will naturally extend that and will work rather than building them 02:19.960 --> 02:21.430 up individual every time. 02:21.430 --> 02:26.920 Now if you were going for a complete unique chess set you may want to do each one individually because 02:26.920 --> 02:28.800 that will give that uniqueness to it. 02:28.810 --> 02:35.110 Even if you've got a common sort of theme running throughout Now there are some other common features 02:35.440 --> 02:38.780 in this actual set that we've got here. 02:38.890 --> 02:46.030 And what I'd like you to do right at this moment is pause the video and go through what is common between 02:46.030 --> 02:48.000 the porn and these other pieces. 02:48.190 --> 02:51.100 What's common between the bishop and the queen. 02:51.100 --> 02:53.040 What's common between the queen and the king. 02:53.050 --> 02:58.120 Think about it carefully and think how you can build up a set of pieces without having to repeat your 02:58.120 --> 02:59.920 work all the time. 02:59.950 --> 03:03.030 So go ahead pause a video now and give that a go. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.010 OK everybody welcome back let's have a look at these pieces then. 03:09.170 --> 03:14.370 So I'm just going to clear my screen annotations down and I'm going to change my colour hair I'm going 03:14.380 --> 03:16.210 to use red this time. 03:16.250 --> 03:19.590 So one of the common features is this neckline here. 03:19.610 --> 03:21.680 So we've got the base and the neckline. 03:21.680 --> 03:29.930 So what we can then do is transport that to this piece to this piece and to this piece but I wouldn't 03:29.930 --> 03:35.600 just create all of those pieces in one go based upon that because there are some more things that we 03:35.600 --> 03:37.720 can then go ahead and use. 03:37.730 --> 03:40.000 So we've got this space piece that we can use without. 03:40.020 --> 03:42.850 No it's certainly not going to be suitable for our night. 03:42.860 --> 03:43.480 Not at all. 03:43.490 --> 03:48.620 Doesn't even look like that after the base and we can see here even though it's very similar the rock 03:48.680 --> 03:50.620 is substantially different. 03:50.630 --> 03:58.380 So I think that would warrant Yes a shared base but not not actually a shared neck going to the top. 03:58.490 --> 04:01.610 But these three pieces certainly do. 04:01.610 --> 04:06.420 So let's have a look in more detail now of how we can move that forward on from there. 04:06.420 --> 04:07.950 So what's the next stage. 04:07.970 --> 04:13.250 So let's say we were modelling these one at a time so we've gone from our pawn here and we're starting 04:13.250 --> 04:14.830 to model our bishop. 04:14.960 --> 04:19.970 Now we can think carefully as we're modelling our bishop we've got the neck that we've borrowed from 04:19.970 --> 04:26.600 the porn itself and now we're going to model this bit just on top before we get to modelling the very 04:26.600 --> 04:28.190 top of the bishop. 04:28.190 --> 04:34.510 Now this bit's in the middle on top that's something that's shared here and here. 04:34.670 --> 04:39.950 So if you were so inclined what you could do is once you've modelled that bit of the bishop save the 04:39.950 --> 04:45.410 file as perhaps the queen would the idea if that's where the base of the queen is going to start from 04:45.650 --> 04:51.500 and then work from there onwards and I'm going to change the colour once Mom long go back to read if 04:51.500 --> 04:54.620 we have a look at the queen and king they do share some similarities. 04:54.620 --> 05:01.380 Now the Queen's got spikes but overall the overall shape there is pretty much the same as this. 05:01.400 --> 05:06.650 So once again once you've modelled or started to the base model of the queen you could go ahead and 05:06.650 --> 05:13.760 save a file ready to do the king from it or you may go from the king because it's a nice plain top and 05:13.760 --> 05:15.440 go backwards to the queen. 05:15.440 --> 05:19.280 Now there's no right or wrong when it comes to this and that's the important thing. 05:19.310 --> 05:22.070 You can approach this from so many different angles. 05:22.160 --> 05:24.640 It's really not worth worrying about. 05:24.740 --> 05:29.930 But what is important is that you realize there's something you can do here to speed up your workflow. 05:29.930 --> 05:33.250 You don't have the model the same thing over and over again. 05:33.290 --> 05:35.810 You can use a base model and build upon it. 05:35.900 --> 05:40.850 And that's especially important if you get into character creation later on. 05:40.850 --> 05:44.290 You don't want to model a character from scratch every single time. 05:44.510 --> 05:49.370 If you've got another character that you've already created that you could work on and save you that 05:49.400 --> 05:54.300 initial start up now there will be times of course if you go for something completely unique. 05:54.380 --> 05:58.370 As I've said before that you all want to go ahead and model from scratch. 05:58.460 --> 06:03.770 And for instance this point in case here is going to be the night that is going to be a complete model 06:03.770 --> 06:04.640 from scratch. 06:04.640 --> 06:11.330 You could semi get away with the rook being based upon something else here but it is somewhat different 06:11.360 --> 06:13.760 but it's a very simple shape you know goes up here. 06:13.850 --> 06:20.540 We could probably just extrude up with maybe a loop cut around here and then a couple of extrudes to 06:20.540 --> 06:24.710 make for top of the night as well there's lots of options there. 06:24.860 --> 06:25.970 How did you guys get on. 06:25.970 --> 06:28.970 Did you see all of the shared features that I've pointed out here. 06:28.970 --> 06:33.020 Did you spot any more that we could potentially use throughout our model. 06:33.040 --> 06:37.990 Are you sure you share over in the discussions what you found out of what shared features you've discovered. 06:38.120 --> 06:40.930 And I'll see you all in the next lecture.