WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:07.260 Welcome to edge rings in this video we're going to learn about Edge rings how they help you manage your 00:07.260 --> 00:08.270 geometry. 00:08.310 --> 00:12.520 And finally the definition of an entering is a series of edges. 00:12.630 --> 00:18.050 We are not directly connected however share faces with one another. 00:18.210 --> 00:21.600 So to explain that let's hop over into blender. 00:23.020 --> 00:28.870 Once we're in blender I've opened up a brand new blend file to save the work you're working on and just 00:28.900 --> 00:30.720 open up a new blender FAQ. 00:31.470 --> 00:32.000 Brilliant. 00:32.140 --> 00:37.890 So let's deletes the standard cube that we've got and create ourselves a good one. 00:37.900 --> 00:46.780 A good object to see this in action is a U V sphere so go in at yourself a u v sphere and maybe scale 00:46.780 --> 00:50.520 it up a little so it's large in our in our workspace here. 00:51.130 --> 00:59.320 So this is a great example so what we've done so far is we've selected edge loops which are rings running 00:59.320 --> 01:01.240 round our objects. 01:01.510 --> 01:06.550 Okay so that is an edge loop running along in that's longer studeman Lee. 01:06.590 --> 01:09.690 If I could speak and latitude along those as. 01:09.730 --> 01:15.900 So those are the two edged loops or ways the edge loops working here now an edge ring is very similar 01:16.040 --> 01:23.230 whereas with the edgerley were holding down alt as we clicking these edged loops the shortcut for Edge 01:23.320 --> 01:26.420 Rings is control and OT. 01:26.650 --> 01:32.900 So when you click that you'll notice that this just starts with doing inverses here. 01:33.100 --> 01:38.320 So make sure your on edge select there's always a good one and hold down oltz and control when you're 01:38.320 --> 01:39.000 selecting. 01:39.100 --> 01:45.900 And you can see it's selected as the definition says they're not directly connected with one another. 01:46.640 --> 01:50.340 But they're part of the same faces and those run all the way round. 01:50.510 --> 01:52.440 And that's a slightly different selection. 01:52.440 --> 01:56.000 Then of course if you did the face select around. 01:56.060 --> 02:01.790 So if we end it is very similar in some of the operations because if we scale that in then out it will 02:01.790 --> 02:09.230 operate in a very similar manner as scaling the face ring in and out along there because you're manipulating 02:09.230 --> 02:17.090 certain edges but it does give you more control over the geometry so if you ever need to delete a certain 02:17.090 --> 02:18.350 series of edges. 02:18.380 --> 02:26.030 So if we deleted those edges and edges alone we've cut the top of our board in half which is maybe useful 02:26.060 --> 02:32.900 if you wanted to add more geometry and of course then use the stop bit by bit and then fix it with edges 02:33.230 --> 02:34.340 and bridge the edge loops. 02:34.340 --> 02:36.650 Then it comes back to shape again. 02:36.760 --> 02:44.480 So it's a great way of manipulating your geometry and you may find it useful in the next few sections 02:44.540 --> 02:49.060 especially when you start creating a bit more bespoke geometry. 02:50.840 --> 02:52.460 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 02:52.460 --> 02:55.280 I'd like you to finish the queen's crown. 02:55.490 --> 02:57.880 So we're going to be creating the queen's crown. 02:57.890 --> 03:00.950 I'd like you to be inventive and creative. 03:00.950 --> 03:03.700 Go a bit wild with it if you will remember. 03:03.700 --> 03:10.450 Keep it simple as the rest of the mall is if you make the crowd too complex it will look out of place. 03:10.460 --> 03:16.520 I do suggest you save as and try sticking with quads and also try using triangles as well and see the 03:16.520 --> 03:18.680 results that you can get with them. 03:19.380 --> 03:21.810 So a few hints for this challenge. 03:21.840 --> 03:27.560 Save your file now you should be saving regularly but we're about to muck about with the file so am 03:27.650 --> 03:31.610 and we're quite likely to at some point muck it up completely. 03:31.620 --> 03:34.860 So of course saving it is a great way of going back to the beginning. 03:34.860 --> 03:38.180 You can always go file revert and start again. 03:38.250 --> 03:44.660 Be prepared for the deletion and creation of geometry step especially if you go down the triangles route. 03:44.670 --> 03:52.800 Very straightforward to make a crown in principle but you will soon come into some shortfalls depending 03:52.800 --> 03:53.840 on which way you go. 03:53.850 --> 03:56.610 But have fun with it and don't get too frustrated. 03:56.610 --> 04:00.540 Remember you can always undo it and start again if necessary. 04:00.540 --> 04:05.930 Just a reminder that the snapping tool itself may be your best friend especially if you are creating 04:05.940 --> 04:06.770 geometry. 04:07.520 --> 04:10.610 So is that the solution that I'm going for. 04:10.650 --> 04:16.280 AM As I was alluding to earlier I want the outside of my crowd to remain flat. 04:16.280 --> 04:22.640 I'm quite eager for that to happen in this case the inside where it goes into the crown itself. 04:22.760 --> 04:28.900 I'm quite happy if there are a few triangles inside there now that will break some loops. 04:28.910 --> 04:35.960 But at this point in time I'm happy because the triangles themselves I'm going to get right as I'm making 04:35.960 --> 04:36.510 them. 04:36.750 --> 04:37.130 Okay. 04:37.160 --> 04:38.210 So pause a video. 04:38.210 --> 04:39.920 Now go give that a go. 04:39.920 --> 04:44.740 I'd love to see your results as well and I'll see you in a few moments where I'm going to make this. 04:47.110 --> 04:47.780 Okay go ahead. 04:47.800 --> 04:48.640 Welcome back. 04:48.640 --> 04:49.890 How did you get on. 04:49.960 --> 04:51.900 Let's crack on in blender. 04:53.150 --> 04:58.690 OK so over in blender itself we've got our queen here now they're coming to a point. 04:58.710 --> 05:04.350 So at some point we're going to have to actually subdivide this edge going around here. 05:04.350 --> 05:09.040 So we've got some points to go through so they can go in this exact method up and down. 05:09.180 --> 05:13.390 Now looking at our model there's a couple of ways we can go about that. 05:13.560 --> 05:16.650 But we do need to be careful of the order of which we do things. 05:16.650 --> 05:23.820 So if I subdivide this face ring going round here it will make the face loops either side null and void 05:23.850 --> 05:28.670 because they'll suddenly have nowhere to go and also create any gums around this bits here. 05:28.680 --> 05:31.500 And this bit on the inside as well. 05:31.530 --> 05:32.830 Now I'm happy with that sir. 05:32.850 --> 05:35.350 I'm going to delete the inside bit anyway. 05:35.430 --> 05:41.790 So bearing that in mind if I'm going to be deleting this inside bit I should select it now and in face 05:41.790 --> 05:43.980 mode of course and delete it. 05:44.040 --> 05:49.550 Whilst we're here so it's important to now decide which deletion method we're going to do. 05:49.560 --> 05:53.540 I want to delete the edges going around here as well. 05:53.550 --> 06:01.200 In fact in this case I will probably just want to delete the faces themselves or the edges. 06:01.230 --> 06:06.360 Well I don't want to select the inside edges and delete them so it's just going to be the faces. 06:06.360 --> 06:12.360 In this case it's so that's gotten rid of some of our geometry here I'm now going to Slate this face 06:12.360 --> 06:18.100 loop going around and simply subdivide it and that's going to give us some midpoints we can work to. 06:18.900 --> 06:24.390 The next thing to do is to actually make them midpoints themselves and we're going to have to do a couple 06:24.390 --> 06:28.760 of things here in order to combine the geometry into that. 06:29.600 --> 06:32.620 So I'm going to want to pull some of these edges together. 06:32.630 --> 06:36.140 Now I'm going to keep this series of face flatness. 06:36.140 --> 06:41.180 Coming up our model so I'll want to join these two bits together. 06:41.210 --> 06:44.840 So from there to here it's a couple of ways I can do that. 06:44.840 --> 06:47.180 I can obviously split the face in two. 06:47.360 --> 06:53.420 If I grab this vertex I mean one of the things we could do is turn on snapping and move that Vertex 06:53.420 --> 06:53.950 over here. 06:53.950 --> 06:59.330 That would create one triangle but would lose the ability to make the triangle on the other side. 06:59.330 --> 07:03.680 So at this point I am literally going to go round this loop. 07:03.680 --> 07:07.120 So this is still selectable as a face loop. 07:07.110 --> 07:13.800 If were in face collect around here and I'm going to the leads the faces. 07:14.000 --> 07:19.080 So let's go in and X and only faces. 07:19.130 --> 07:19.580 There we go. 07:19.580 --> 07:22.120 So that's left our geometry around here. 07:22.120 --> 07:25.060 That's great for building up what we're about to do. 07:25.280 --> 07:30.830 And let's go to virtex select and we're going to literally fill in these gaps. 07:30.830 --> 07:33.650 I'm going to use the F key here to fill in. 07:33.650 --> 07:35.460 So that's those bits there. 07:35.660 --> 07:42.110 And we're just going to literally go round the module now and do this a couple of times probably 16 07:42.110 --> 07:43.150 in total. 07:43.580 --> 07:48.560 Now when you're constructing geometry itself it can be quite time consuming. 07:48.560 --> 07:55.610 I've spent a few minutes actually thinking about what I wanted to do before going ahead and by doing 07:55.610 --> 08:03.800 this we've essentially created a framework that allows the geometry I'm creating to be plainer with 08:03.860 --> 08:05.090 the area underneath. 08:05.090 --> 08:09.510 And so therefore look flat when we shading. 08:09.770 --> 08:13.450 I've tried loads of other ways of doing it and it just doesn't work. 08:13.490 --> 08:19.230 So the next thing is to just go round and basically remove the support pillars that we've been working. 08:20.010 --> 08:21.350 I think that's the final one. 08:22.260 --> 08:24.360 Excellent Sue deleted those edges there. 08:24.360 --> 08:27.490 Now we've got some geometry that we can work to now. 08:27.510 --> 08:33.440 It needs to come back in as well and to make sure I'm not totally confused. 08:35.370 --> 08:38.630 One two three four that she keeps is four as well. 08:38.640 --> 08:46.260 We go through and delete these middle virtex or middle vertical edges to many things starting with V 08:46.260 --> 08:47.100 here so there we go. 08:47.100 --> 08:48.800 Now we can fill in. 08:50.690 --> 08:52.590 These as we go as well. 08:52.590 --> 08:53.830 So it fell. 08:54.150 --> 08:56.590 That's actually a quad which is kind of cool. 08:59.070 --> 09:05.270 Excellent so I want to build try angles up now going to this point here. 09:05.320 --> 09:08.980 So I essentially want that edge there and here. 09:09.210 --> 09:15.710 And that's going to be one face and then I'm just literally going to hold down Shift to remove a vertex. 09:15.870 --> 09:22.230 That's the last one in a line and literally go round our model so we've only got one vertex to remove 09:22.260 --> 09:26.600 every time and it will be the last one in the line as we can see going around there. 09:26.790 --> 09:28.620 And let's just check it as we go. 09:28.620 --> 09:30.150 That looks good to me. 09:30.270 --> 09:30.630 Going to. 09:30.640 --> 09:33.560 Why haven't done of course flips into rended mode. 09:33.630 --> 09:39.420 That looks lovely there and that looks nice on the inside as well we've got the triangles where I want 09:39.450 --> 09:42.100 triangles which is quite important. 09:42.550 --> 09:44.100 Okay excellent So there we go. 09:44.100 --> 09:45.620 That's that created. 09:45.630 --> 09:52.680 I will now just have a quick look and see which parts of my geometry have been ruined so I can no longer 09:52.680 --> 09:54.830 select the edgeley running around there. 09:55.020 --> 10:00.420 And I probably can't select this one but I can select this one so now I'm aware that this is a five 10:00.420 --> 10:04.590 sided ink on I'm happy with that as it is because I know it's like that. 10:04.710 --> 10:06.350 We're not going to deform it in that place. 10:06.350 --> 10:14.010 If we were going to deform or amman and then mate around that area then I'd certainly consider adding 10:14.010 --> 10:17.250 further geometry so I can control the defamation. 10:17.520 --> 10:19.360 This crowd around the top. 10:19.650 --> 10:21.640 Well that's not an issue there. 10:21.750 --> 10:26.550 If any think what I would like to do is add in an edge loop just here. 10:27.240 --> 10:33.480 So I've got so that access the base of the triangle and then I've got a bit more control over the shape 10:33.810 --> 10:39.760 and position of let's lock that Z and move it down ever so slightly. 10:39.780 --> 10:46.500 So I've got a bit more control there over my model itself and then it looks a bit more like a crown. 10:46.500 --> 10:52.470 In fact I'm going to move this wedge loop in ever so slightly so it's not shackford and I've still got 10:53.610 --> 10:54.950 snapping turned on. 10:55.050 --> 10:59.170 I want to turn that off to stop me running my own model. 10:59.230 --> 11:03.150 Finally at the top here one of the things I noticed while I was in face mode as there are these dots 11:03.150 --> 11:08.270 running around here now that is simply because there is an ingrowing face somewhere. 11:08.270 --> 11:11.730 It's tiny and I don't think that adds anything to the model itself. 11:11.970 --> 11:18.900 So I'm going to grab the edge loop running around there and literally just move it up slightly so it's 11:18.900 --> 11:21.420 there and perhaps scale it out as well. 11:21.640 --> 11:26.220 And that'll give the ball on top a bit more prominence as well. 11:26.290 --> 11:29.370 I'm going to grab this edge loop and move it up as well. 11:29.490 --> 11:36.540 Just in the z axis so that these are roughly the right height and it rounds off quite nicely. 11:36.540 --> 11:37.350 Brilliant. 11:37.350 --> 11:40.470 How did you guys get on this hop over into readed mode. 11:40.470 --> 11:46.900 I'd love to see what you came up with for your Queens crown and I will see you in the next lecture.