WEBVTT 00:00.510 --> 00:03.220 Welcome to quads vs. Triangle's. 00:03.300 --> 00:05.240 Oh and they're saying guns as well. 00:05.490 --> 00:12.180 So in this video we're going to go over how it's better overall to make your models using quads and 00:12.180 --> 00:16.190 we'll go on to explain what they all are in a few moments. 00:16.190 --> 00:20.870 Whatever you use it is essentially being converted back to triangles. 00:20.880 --> 00:28.140 Anyway in the background what we want to make sure is that we have full control over our geometry and 00:28.140 --> 00:32.210 we're going to be watching out for making things non plainer. 00:32.210 --> 00:34.480 We'll explain that a bit more later on. 00:34.800 --> 00:36.220 So what are they. 00:36.270 --> 00:43.020 Well now as you probably guessed I am very sorry if this insults anybody out there especially the one 00:43.020 --> 00:49.620 on the left this green object in front of us is known as a triangle It's got three points joined together 00:49.620 --> 00:50.950 with three lines. 00:50.970 --> 00:58.940 It's the most simple 2D shape we can have in it's also the simplest face we can have in our models. 00:58.950 --> 01:02.240 Quads are one vertex up from that. 01:02.250 --> 01:05.380 So it's essentially a simple quad. 01:05.400 --> 01:06.910 Here is a square. 01:07.050 --> 01:13.770 And everything we've been making so far the chess pieces the bowling pin the bowling ball was made out 01:13.770 --> 01:17.620 of triangles but everything else has been quad based. 01:17.610 --> 01:22.890 Just by the way that we've managed to construct it is ended up as quads and we're about to start making 01:22.890 --> 01:28.920 a couple of pieces where we may get some non the quads and we'll explain that in a bit. 01:29.010 --> 01:35.820 And then we've got NGOs and NGOs at not just five but it's anything with more than five edges so five 01:35.820 --> 01:39.550 plus vertices and five edges making up that one face. 01:39.550 --> 01:43.780 Now in general we want to avoid triangles and avoid any guns. 01:43.860 --> 01:47.050 And that's what we call good mesh topology. 01:47.220 --> 01:48.960 Now we've got a load of triangles. 01:48.960 --> 01:54.170 It can mean it's unpredictable how the mesh deforms or animates an end. 01:54.450 --> 01:55.720 Well we're leaving. 01:55.810 --> 02:02.950 Ah ah ah mesh our geometry to the mercy of blender on how it decides to deform an end gone. 02:02.970 --> 02:04.730 Of all things anyway. 02:04.860 --> 02:08.910 So let's hop over into blender and see what these things look like. 02:09.610 --> 02:14.740 So the first thing we should look around in blender is something that we have been working on so we've 02:14.740 --> 02:17.260 been working on ARM a chessboard here. 02:17.260 --> 02:24.020 So let's take a closer look at it so let's hop over from the wrench mode in two solid mode in fathman 02:24.040 --> 02:29.870 a hit wire frame mode here just to see how things are lay that we need to go in to something else. 02:29.930 --> 02:36.150 So go into the chessboard mode into edit and well actually let's hide everything else. 02:36.160 --> 02:40.440 In this case so let's hide these things here. 02:40.560 --> 02:44.650 Keep in the chessboards roundabouts there we get. 02:44.810 --> 02:46.950 So you just got the chessboards around here. 02:46.960 --> 02:52.750 Now if we have a closer look at everything that goes on here we will see that there are literally just 02:52.750 --> 02:54.190 quads everywhere. 02:54.290 --> 02:56.980 One two three four and. 02:57.620 --> 02:58.910 There's a core there. 02:58.970 --> 03:00.200 There's one there. 03:00.350 --> 03:09.470 We zoom in this face here is made of more face select dates and that face there is made of four edges 03:09.680 --> 03:16.590 and so forth and so forth so everywhere on this particular model of our board we've just got quads. 03:16.670 --> 03:21.950 So let's take a look at something else that we've made in the bowling scene. 03:21.950 --> 03:28.540 We had our bowling ball and if we zoom into That's and switch on over into edit mode we can see everything's 03:28.550 --> 03:32.070 made up of triangles with the exception of these holes. 03:32.070 --> 03:40.040 Now if I can get a good look at the hole we can see that these these faces here are quads and it ends 03:40.040 --> 03:43.010 in a triangle in the middle here. 03:43.130 --> 03:48.450 Now there are some times when triangles are what we call acceptable if you will. 03:48.560 --> 03:55.190 And that is when it comes to a points like it does here where that point is called a pole. 03:55.370 --> 04:03.460 Now a good example of a pole if I create myself a new blender file and delete our cube there. 04:03.620 --> 04:09.280 If we create ourselves a mesh object that is a U V sphere. 04:09.890 --> 04:15.920 If we go to the top of a uv's Sphere you'll see that everything on it is quads into you get to the very 04:15.920 --> 04:22.670 top which is a load of triangles meeting at one point which makes it a pole where things join. 04:22.670 --> 04:27.680 Now the problem with triangles and poles is if we went to go select this century running round here 04:27.680 --> 04:29.240 it would select it. 04:29.450 --> 04:35.130 But if we select this one here it terminates at the pole blender just doesn't know where to go. 04:35.140 --> 04:37.970 It can't go straight over it's got another. 04:38.170 --> 04:44.140 I can't remember 31 possible path's that it can take from there so it cannot draw a loop all the way 04:44.140 --> 04:45.210 round. 04:45.240 --> 04:48.720 So but there are places where polls are acceptable now. 04:48.740 --> 04:51.030 Guns are a funny one. 04:51.170 --> 04:58.130 So on and on is basically a face that's made up of more than four vertices. 04:58.280 --> 05:05.690 So if we get the basic cube here and we hop on over into edit mode and we grab one of these edges and 05:05.690 --> 05:10.260 just subdivide it so we can do that in the tool shelf here. 05:10.280 --> 05:16.560 Just hit subdivide once and now we have a face that's made up of. 05:17.390 --> 05:19.630 Five vertices. 05:19.640 --> 05:24.560 It still looks like a quad but we actually have a virtex here that we can pull out and reshape. 05:24.560 --> 05:25.800 We wanted to. 05:25.830 --> 05:33.930 Now you also see that this little dots that Shuji in the centre of our sky squaring cubes has been moved. 05:33.950 --> 05:37.100 It's been moved on this face and this one. 05:37.280 --> 05:43.190 So the centre of the face has been shifted because there's an extrovert axis has been weighted more 05:43.190 --> 05:49.930 to this side because there's one two three vertices on this side of our cube and only two on this side. 05:50.760 --> 05:52.660 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 05:52.680 --> 05:59.970 I'd like you to make the queen so go ahead and make the queen with out the spikes on the crown itself 05:59.970 --> 06:02.810 we'll be dealing with those in the next section. 06:02.880 --> 06:07.780 Make sure that the model is made of quads only the base itself can be left as in angle so if you turn 06:07.780 --> 06:12.520 it upside down you'll notice you've got a an octagon on the bottom there. 06:12.630 --> 06:14.130 Don't worry about that lever as it is. 06:14.130 --> 06:18.060 But just make sure the rest of your model is actually an n gone go round and makes sure there are four 06:18.060 --> 06:25.110 sides per face and then suggest I suggest that you start with the Bishop as a base piece. 06:25.110 --> 06:30.100 It's close to the queen's dimensions and you can essentially just take the bishop's hat off make of 06:30.100 --> 06:37.770 the neck slightly bigger and then plonk the crown for the queen on top suppose the video now and go 06:37.770 --> 06:38.780 give that a go. 06:40.090 --> 06:40.770 Okay guys. 06:40.780 --> 06:41.650 Welcome back. 06:41.650 --> 06:44.810 Let's hop straight on over into blender right. 06:44.860 --> 06:48.200 So over in blender I've found our bishop. 06:48.340 --> 06:57.830 So the first thing I'm going to do is go file save as and I'm going to save this low poly queen. 06:58.180 --> 07:00.270 I can get my Curson are replaced. 07:00.280 --> 07:02.040 There we go low poly queen. 07:02.350 --> 07:02.800 Excellent. 07:02.800 --> 07:05.180 I'm going to check out the top that and working on the low queen. 07:05.200 --> 07:05.700 Brilliant. 07:05.860 --> 07:10.810 And I'm going to change the mesh name over here just to work that out. 07:10.810 --> 07:11.260 Brilliant. 07:11.260 --> 07:17.270 So I've got all the basics lined up now so let's go and change the reference material. 07:17.440 --> 07:22.660 Let's go and find the Whereas staunton QUEEN. 07:22.660 --> 07:23.040 Brilliant. 07:23.050 --> 07:28.030 And we're already in orthographic projection so that's great so we just need to flip over into the front 07:28.030 --> 07:28.590 view. 07:28.990 --> 07:29.770 Okay. 07:29.860 --> 07:32.540 Now I think this picture's actually a bit smaller. 07:32.650 --> 07:36.000 Certainly the ship itself last time was absolutely fine. 07:36.010 --> 07:38.790 But I think McQueen is a little bit larger than this. 07:38.920 --> 07:41.410 So I'm going to use it as a basis. 07:41.530 --> 07:45.020 But then I'm probably going to enlarge my model afterwards anyway. 07:45.040 --> 07:46.470 So let's zoom into the top. 07:46.470 --> 07:52.840 Then I'm just going to make the picture a bit stronger in the scene so similar to the bishop itself 07:53.260 --> 07:55.490 who has kind of a hat on if you will. 07:55.540 --> 07:59.170 The queen has also got her hat on or a crown. 07:59.170 --> 08:05.200 And it looks like up until this point the image is the same as this point on our model. 08:05.230 --> 08:12.310 So I'm going to use board a select and say or these select everything first hop over into edit mode 08:13.030 --> 08:19.590 switch over to Border select and just highlight everything up to the bottom of the crown. 08:19.590 --> 08:21.490 So that's absolutely fine. 08:21.490 --> 08:27.100 And when I delete because I haven't selected these edges here it's not a big deal because when I delete 08:27.190 --> 08:32.070 I can select vertices as the option to delete and that would also delete the edges itself. 08:33.200 --> 08:36.600 Oh I've forgotten to delete the other side. 08:36.600 --> 08:41.810 And there's a couple of options of course I could switching to wireframe mode or I could have turned 08:41.900 --> 08:42.760 on. 08:44.020 --> 08:51.850 Limit selection to visible this one next to face select here on the 3d editor header so I'm going to 08:51.850 --> 08:54.610 flip back in to front view. 08:54.610 --> 08:58.290 Here we go then using border selects by pressing B again. 08:58.300 --> 09:00.610 We can go around that. 09:00.790 --> 09:01.740 Excellent. 09:01.820 --> 09:02.520 Delete. 09:02.560 --> 09:05.730 And this time the vertices as well. 09:05.890 --> 09:06.400 So there we go. 09:06.400 --> 09:08.920 We got our model here now going to grab the neck. 09:08.950 --> 09:16.930 So again I'm going to press B highlight all of that and just use the 3D manipulator widget and lift 09:16.930 --> 09:18.750 it up to about that height. 09:18.940 --> 09:19.360 Brilliant. 09:19.390 --> 09:22.080 I'm going to select this edge loop running around here. 09:22.090 --> 09:29.020 I mean edge select that one there and just scale it outwards ever so slightly and the same with this 09:29.050 --> 09:29.740 edge loop. 09:29.780 --> 09:33.610 Just the buffet scale that out. 09:34.060 --> 09:37.940 And I'm just going to bring this very top bit down. 09:37.990 --> 09:41.460 Okay two about there so that's that bit done. 09:41.490 --> 09:46.150 Now we can go ahead and create the rest of the queen's crown. 09:46.210 --> 09:51.610 We can see that it goes up and then back in on itself and we can deal with the geometry for that in 09:51.610 --> 09:52.450 a bit. 09:52.610 --> 09:58.980 But I'm going to simply just extrude from the top here in the z axis to. 09:59.560 --> 10:00.910 Do we want to keep that ridge there. 10:00.910 --> 10:02.630 I'm going to ignore that ridge. 10:02.680 --> 10:07.870 I'm going to go to here and then all the way to the top. 10:09.750 --> 10:11.810 Of our crown. 10:11.810 --> 10:14.760 Now before we do anything else I'm going to scale that out. 10:14.950 --> 10:24.760 And since we're locked in the x z plane we are definitely scaling only along the x y plane. 10:24.950 --> 10:25.560 Right. 10:25.570 --> 10:29.700 So now I can tilt round come out of wireframe mode. 10:29.870 --> 10:35.150 I'm going to fill in that face now that is one big and on at the moment so that's fine. 10:35.150 --> 10:44.180 We're going to steal make it quads because after we filled it in we can then press two in sets and we'll 10:44.180 --> 10:47.450 worry about making that will probably come to a pole at the very top. 10:47.480 --> 10:50.260 So that's going to be the top of our crown there. 10:50.320 --> 10:55.990 And let's extrude that back into our model and we can worry about the angles and everything in the bit 10:56.350 --> 11:00.410 we're going to inset back in and pull this bit up. 11:00.430 --> 11:03.130 And that will create the top of the queen. 11:03.260 --> 11:06.810 And let's switch back over into front mode. 11:06.860 --> 11:07.460 Right. 11:07.640 --> 11:14.150 And then we've got a ball on top as well so perhaps I lifted up that just a little bit high to about 11:14.150 --> 11:14.590 there. 11:14.630 --> 11:18.980 And then we're going to create a similar ball to that which is we put on top of the bishop. 11:19.190 --> 11:26.120 So I'm going to move the 3-d cursor to around there for us for the ball itself. 11:26.120 --> 11:33.050 I'm going to make sure the 3D cursors position in the properties pane X definitely needs two equals 11:33.050 --> 11:34.190 zero. 11:34.250 --> 11:37.880 Why definitely needs to equal zero as well in Z. 11:37.880 --> 11:41.550 Well that's that's not a problem at the moment. 11:41.570 --> 11:44.170 We can move that to our heart's content to live it. 11:44.360 --> 11:48.720 So we need to add a u v sphere. 11:48.940 --> 11:56.290 So let's go and add a uv's Sphere and it needs to have eight segments to match up with our model. 11:56.390 --> 11:58.510 And if we go to four. 11:58.520 --> 11:59.190 That's brilliant. 11:59.210 --> 12:04.550 Let's say in the Rings a let's scale that down since about the right size. 12:06.730 --> 12:07.860 Perfect. 12:08.170 --> 12:12.300 That up and this is where your artistic talents come into play. 12:12.700 --> 12:17.800 I'm actually going to separate this from our model with P bison lection. 12:17.890 --> 12:23.620 So we've got a little mesh that we've been working on separate to recombine it back into the model in 12:23.620 --> 12:31.600 a moment and then to go back to the main body itself into edit mode and select that top and just scale 12:31.600 --> 12:32.440 it in. 12:32.840 --> 12:37.630 So it comes to more of a point I'm going to add a loop. 12:38.420 --> 12:42.810 Around the top there just so I can manage the wave at that. 12:42.810 --> 12:47.430 So for her hat if you will comes in her Crown comes in around there that's a bit more curved. 12:47.570 --> 12:50.000 And then finally I'm going to combine these two together. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.610 I'm happy with how they're laid out. 12:52.610 --> 12:53.600 Let's just have a look. 12:53.600 --> 13:01.430 The lines will all converge as they need to be right so I'm going to use a boolean operator here so 13:01.430 --> 13:05.150 I'm going to select our one for still a cube in the scene. 13:05.150 --> 13:07.260 Some Web other looks are things that get rid of. 13:07.310 --> 13:08.310 That's messy. 13:11.150 --> 13:17.420 So with that rogue Q gone we can select our bishop and operate. 13:17.570 --> 13:20.750 Let's add a modifier of boolean. 13:20.860 --> 13:22.090 We're going to combine. 13:22.090 --> 13:29.570 So a union between that and there one further down and click apply. 13:29.570 --> 13:35.980 I'm happy with how it looks then if we go and hide our ball that's gone and the bishop. 13:36.870 --> 13:37.370 That's awesome. 13:37.370 --> 13:41.600 Bishop should say queen low poly queen. 13:43.460 --> 13:44.030 Excellent. 13:44.030 --> 13:49.840 And we can get rid of the ball on top now as it's just doubling up on what we have already. 13:50.240 --> 13:50.900 Excellent. 13:50.900 --> 13:52.860 I'm happy with. 13:53.010 --> 13:54.840 That's apart from. 13:54.860 --> 13:56.550 I do once. 13:57.720 --> 13:59.400 Let's flip round to the front. 13:59.400 --> 14:08.190 I do want it to be a bit more jagged if you will or spiky So we need to make these the top of this crown 14:08.250 --> 14:10.200 a bit spikier us both. 14:10.230 --> 14:14.840 So let's grab the inside edge as hop over into edit mode. 14:17.020 --> 14:18.190 Turn off. 14:18.370 --> 14:20.900 Seeing through our models I've got more control. 14:20.950 --> 14:28.430 I'm going to grab this loop here and just scale it outwards to bring it more to a point. 14:28.630 --> 14:37.170 In fact I might scale it right on top of that and get rid of this ridge running round. 14:37.360 --> 14:39.760 So I'm going to turn on snapping. 14:39.760 --> 14:45.470 I'm going to emerge over to cease and I'm going to make sure snapping is to the virtex. 14:45.490 --> 14:47.220 Excellent So we're going to scale. 14:47.230 --> 14:52.970 I was going to lockets there and that should have made that perfect. 14:53.000 --> 14:59.380 Excellent so the next thing would be to pop the spikes around this top edge loopier and will be doing 14:59.380 --> 15:01.710 that in the next lecture. 15:01.840 --> 15:02.720 See you soon.