WEBVTT 00:00.420 --> 00:04.830 Welcome to profile modelling using curb's in this video. 00:04.840 --> 00:11.080 You'll create some alternative detail convert mesh objects into curve objects. 00:11.400 --> 00:22.230 Then use two curves to create geometry along and then use those two curves to create geometry one controlling 00:22.230 --> 00:23.000 the profile. 00:23.010 --> 00:29.660 The other path will see that this is great for a more accurate path following. 00:29.730 --> 00:32.450 So let's hop straight on over into a blender. 00:33.730 --> 00:39.120 Okay so we're back over in blender and the first thing before we move onto the curves I notice wind 00:39.120 --> 00:40.400 spinning around my model. 00:40.420 --> 00:45.760 It looks a bit odd at the top here and when I say went all the way round I saw that I've got crossed 00:45.760 --> 00:47.000 over geometry. 00:47.530 --> 00:52.590 I think when I was scaling I've inadvertently managed to push the model through itself. 00:52.600 --> 00:58.930 Now whether or not that's going to have a massive impact on the end of production it probably will. 00:58.930 --> 01:02.140 So now I spotted that mistake I will have to go back and correct that. 01:02.140 --> 01:07.660 Make sure you check your models over and make sure that you haven't pushed any geometry through itself. 01:07.660 --> 01:09.610 I didn't spin round so I didn't see it. 01:09.610 --> 01:13.180 I was just looking from the area that looked good unfortunately. 01:13.210 --> 01:14.080 But there we go. 01:14.080 --> 01:20.590 So let's move on to Curves themselves so first of all I'm going to select this object the window frame 01:20.590 --> 01:26.290 that we've made and I'm going to duplicate it because I'm going to use the same profile that I've already 01:26.290 --> 01:33.040 created to generate the next curve and then going to hide the original window frame hop into here and 01:33.100 --> 01:39.710 I'm going to call this window frame profile curve for the moment so I know exactly what it is. 01:39.730 --> 01:45.070 Once I've done that I'm going to hop into edit mode and remove all the unnecessary geometry. 01:45.070 --> 01:53.280 Now you can limit vertices to a visible if you want to with the toggle on the 3d edita header. 01:53.290 --> 01:59.020 I do prefer using the wireframe mode because then its really is explicit that you're going to be able 01:59.020 --> 02:01.150 to select items through your model. 02:01.150 --> 02:06.340 I'm going to go here and grab and we can see the mess at the top there and then go and grab these top 02:06.340 --> 02:13.660 vertices here and deletes those and then I'm going to grab the ones down here as well and get rid of 02:13.660 --> 02:14.150 those. 02:14.230 --> 02:17.470 And that leaves me with the profile itself. 02:17.470 --> 02:23.980 But this is a mesh profile at the moment so what we can do is hop into object mode and go to object 02:24.010 --> 02:25.300 and convert. 02:25.300 --> 02:27.370 And that's right at the top here. 02:27.370 --> 02:32.630 Convert to curve and obviously have so convert curve so curve from mesh. 02:32.680 --> 02:34.140 And here we have old C.. 02:34.150 --> 02:35.760 Just to remind you what that is. 02:35.890 --> 02:37.360 So now it is a curve object. 02:37.360 --> 02:39.100 I do not want to keep the original. 02:39.100 --> 02:44.470 In this case I'm a believer untaped and that will remember the last setting you had so if I had kept 02:44.500 --> 02:46.860 one before then it would still be there. 02:47.200 --> 02:50.110 The next thing that I want to do is generate a curve. 02:50.110 --> 02:55.090 Now I could go through creating a curve and lifting it up and through. 02:55.090 --> 03:00.580 Now one of the things that you can do is obviously duplicate this edge that runs around here and use 03:00.580 --> 03:01.440 that as a curve. 03:01.450 --> 03:02.710 So lets go and try that. 03:02.710 --> 03:09.400 Now lets go ahead and go to the appropriate model and hide the other one is well from the scene or is 03:09.400 --> 03:10.660 done automatically. 03:10.780 --> 03:11.540 On a different. 03:11.760 --> 03:15.040 Okay so lets go ahead and copied to edit mode. 03:15.040 --> 03:20.310 Select the edges we want to be used for a path which are these outer ones here. 03:20.380 --> 03:23.970 Once those are selected we go going to duplicate them. 03:23.970 --> 03:25.640 We are going to separate them. 03:26.490 --> 03:30.940 And there we go we've got here and I'm going to call this curve. 03:30.990 --> 03:36.160 I suppose I should call it window frame path because that's what it's going to become. 03:36.450 --> 03:39.450 Now in object mode I can use Oulton see. 03:39.580 --> 03:43.720 And once again convert from a mesh to occur. 03:44.160 --> 03:45.640 Well again I don't want to create. 03:45.660 --> 03:46.770 Keep the original. 03:46.920 --> 03:53.100 So let's go and see how this works out so we need to give the path a bevel to go around. 03:53.100 --> 04:01.470 So whilst the path is selected we can hit the curve data and down here we can bevel it around that particular 04:01.530 --> 04:05.740 object and in this case we can use the profile curve. 04:06.160 --> 04:11.950 There we go we end up with a very similar curve as we did before of a help out of wireframe. 04:12.290 --> 04:13.010 Ah ha. 04:13.140 --> 04:16.650 You will see here that the normals are in fact the wrong way around. 04:16.650 --> 04:19.280 No we're not going to deal with that right at this moment. 04:19.290 --> 04:23.880 How would just have a quick look around the rest of the model first before sorting those out. 04:25.740 --> 04:28.730 Let's just check that that's right does that fit the curve. 04:28.730 --> 04:31.470 It doesn't look quite right in the middle is something missing. 04:31.710 --> 04:32.810 Ah okay. 04:32.940 --> 04:38.690 So when I selected the outline originally from the window frame it looks like I've missed the bit. 04:38.730 --> 04:43.950 It hasn't come back out here at all and it should have done or is it inside the model. 04:44.100 --> 04:47.950 Okay so there is a rotation going on here now. 04:47.970 --> 04:55.140 It's a rotation of the path itself even though it's a line in 3-d space. 04:55.140 --> 04:56.970 It has rotation. 04:56.970 --> 05:05.040 So what we can do is hop in to the path's rotation so go and go into edit mode for the path itself and 05:05.040 --> 05:13.380 we can see is there a select all of them and change the mean tilt which you can see here over in the 05:13.410 --> 05:21.720 propertys panel of the 3D editor and that will twist it along that path looks kind of funky obviously. 05:21.720 --> 05:26.490 If you keep going round and round and round if I hop out of wireframe married we can see that as we 05:26.490 --> 05:30.720 tilt that round it then appears the right way. 05:30.750 --> 05:34.730 So at this point I think it's going to be minus 90 to put it in the right place. 05:34.740 --> 05:36.410 No more than that. 05:36.450 --> 05:41.390 Oh that's mine as tight the right number in is it minus 90. 05:41.400 --> 05:45.760 No that looks wrong let's try 90 that looks right. 05:45.900 --> 05:50.220 And of course at this point if we wanted something the other side which we haven't done yet. 05:50.220 --> 05:54.770 If I wanted something the other side could apply a mirror modifier. 05:54.820 --> 05:59.150 Now I have in this the do I have the mirror plain. 05:59.880 --> 06:01.140 Was that the doorway. 06:01.280 --> 06:06.830 I don't seem to have a mirror plain here so I'm going to try mirroring our round. 06:08.000 --> 06:12.610 Nope none of these options are going to be good enough Sard have to create an empty and mirror around 06:12.610 --> 06:12.700 that. 06:12.710 --> 06:16.550 I'm going to do that at the moment but there we go that's a nice and simple path. 06:16.570 --> 06:23.350 The normals are the wrong way round and that will be generated from this profile curve itself that means 06:23.350 --> 06:28.150 the normals of this curve are in fact the wrong way round so we can sort that out now. 06:28.180 --> 06:31.290 Now we can convert this to a mesh objects and flip the normals. 06:31.290 --> 06:32.550 We know how to do that. 06:32.740 --> 06:37.530 However we can also change the direction that this curve is being generated. 06:37.540 --> 06:40.210 It is the profile one that's causing this. 06:40.210 --> 06:46.300 Normal inflection and we might not want to remove the curve object from the actual blend file for various 06:46.300 --> 06:47.370 reasons. 06:47.380 --> 06:52.960 So in this case we can flip those by selecting all of the points along the curve. 06:52.960 --> 07:00.940 The profile curve and then go into curve going to curve segments and switch direction and there we go. 07:00.940 --> 07:04.340 That has been reflected of course at this point. 07:04.360 --> 07:10.290 We can play with the resolution of the curve so we've got a couple of resolution points here. 07:10.300 --> 07:11.780 We've got the one that follows. 07:11.800 --> 07:17.640 It's round and we can't really make that any sharper than it already is without manually editing it. 07:17.770 --> 07:24.070 And we got the profile itself so we can go in here and change the preview for both of those. 07:24.100 --> 07:30.100 It doesn't get any better by changing the profile curve because it's already got as many segments as 07:30.100 --> 07:31.980 it needs and the window path. 07:31.970 --> 07:33.360 Well let's just try changing that. 07:33.370 --> 07:37.270 And surprisingly or unsurprisingly it doesn't make a difference either. 07:37.280 --> 07:41.670 And that's because the path is fixed at certain points. 07:41.680 --> 07:42.910 There is no bend. 07:43.060 --> 07:44.670 So changing the resolution doesn't matter. 07:44.680 --> 07:49.040 However turning smooth shading on can help it look much better. 07:49.060 --> 07:50.050 Brilliant. 07:50.050 --> 07:52.740 And of course it's time for a challenge. 07:53.960 --> 08:02.570 I would like you to create some curve driven geometry try using a bevel curve on your other models and 08:02.570 --> 08:04.080 remember to share your work. 08:04.130 --> 08:07.790 In the discussions pause the video now and give that a go. 08:09.880 --> 08:10.470 Okay guys. 08:10.480 --> 08:11.390 Welcome back. 08:11.560 --> 08:14.590 Let's go straight back over into blender. 08:14.590 --> 08:20.620 Sunday is going to make sure I've saved my work here so I'm going to go file save and then I'm going 08:20.620 --> 08:23.620 to go to my door and demonstrate a similar thing on the door. 08:23.640 --> 08:29.160 So get a copy the archway and see a group get of that perfect. 08:30.530 --> 08:33.080 And name its arch. 08:33.110 --> 08:34.200 Way. 08:35.700 --> 08:40.410 This is going to be profile or convert that to a curve in a moment. 08:40.400 --> 08:41.920 Now I'm going to do V. 08:41.940 --> 08:45.250 Elodie door as well and select. 08:46.520 --> 08:47.050 Excellent. 08:47.050 --> 08:51.510 I could just select the edgeley there it's got all of the information I need yet. 08:51.650 --> 08:53.640 So let's duplicate that. 08:53.870 --> 08:55.210 Separate that. 08:55.970 --> 09:03.360 And there we go we have it down here and I'm going to call that arch way all path. 09:03.770 --> 09:09.860 Okay so now that we've got the archway path and the archway profile we need to sort out the profile 09:09.860 --> 09:10.330 itself. 09:10.340 --> 09:16.100 So it is an actual single profile of entire work so let's pop in. 09:16.100 --> 09:17.580 And of course it's myriad. 09:17.690 --> 09:22.130 So this is going to be even quicker we can just select those there. 09:22.190 --> 09:28.160 In fact if I hop into a wire frame and make it even easier to select everything x for the LEA and legal 09:28.240 --> 09:35.630 vs. no case so let's hide away the front door archway that we've created. 09:35.630 --> 09:36.540 There we go. 09:36.740 --> 09:39.120 And we should now be able to convert. 09:39.120 --> 09:39.660 That's all. 09:39.680 --> 09:42.430 There's one the other side as well. 09:44.100 --> 09:49.920 That is the mirror modifier going to hide that to prevent myself getting confused or in fact in this 09:49.920 --> 09:53.290 case I can will just remove it altogether. 09:53.730 --> 09:58.050 Okay so now I've got a hunger to leave the subsurface modifier hidden for the moment. 09:58.050 --> 10:00.890 I'm just going to see how much of a difference that can make as well. 10:00.890 --> 10:02.350 So I've got my profile ready. 10:02.370 --> 10:08.410 Let's go ahead and convert that into a curve and the same with the archway path as well. 10:08.460 --> 10:11.020 So now those two items are done. 10:11.100 --> 10:20.020 We can go straight into the PAFF curve data scrolled down to the bevell object as like the archway profile. 10:20.070 --> 10:22.440 Now is it the right way around. 10:22.560 --> 10:24.500 And are the normals the right way. 10:25.290 --> 10:26.500 Normals are the wrong way. 10:26.520 --> 10:33.270 But this time the archway itself has actually been generated the right way round which saves me a lot 10:33.270 --> 10:34.470 of time faffing. 10:34.470 --> 10:44.250 The only thing I need to do here is go to the profile itself and go to oh don't edit mode curve segments 10:44.310 --> 10:45.730 switch direction. 10:46.020 --> 10:48.240 And that is sorted. 10:48.270 --> 10:49.630 It's gone all the way over. 10:49.650 --> 10:54.600 Let's just see if the subsidies surface division makes any difference whatsoever. 10:54.600 --> 10:56.490 I don't think it will. 10:56.510 --> 11:00.540 So let's go to the PAFF itself add a subset. 11:00.540 --> 11:06.350 The always made quite a bit of difference that helps smooth out the archway really nicely. 11:06.490 --> 11:08.390 A pleasant surprise there of course. 11:08.390 --> 11:13.830 This one's actually got the mirror objects inside can go one step further on this particular model and 11:13.830 --> 11:17.640 mirror it around my mirror point. 11:17.820 --> 11:24.190 And now my all he says needs to be on the y axis that we do not be x. 11:24.480 --> 11:25.060 Okay. 11:25.290 --> 11:31.650 And there we go we've got vads in roughly the right place now it looks like ah okay the mirror object 11:31.650 --> 11:36.120 is not really in the right place doing this is to be in the middle of the door itself so I'm going to 11:36.120 --> 11:37.460 go ahead and grab the mirror. 11:37.650 --> 11:44.720 And in its location transform on the properties I think it's going to have to be minus point one. 11:44.790 --> 11:45.690 Location. 11:45.900 --> 11:48.300 So minus point one. 11:49.220 --> 11:50.170 There we go. 11:50.180 --> 11:53.620 Now the archway is on both sides of the door. 11:53.870 --> 11:56.340 Interestingly here is that's. 11:57.650 --> 11:57.980 Yeah. 11:58.090 --> 12:04.930 There's a little bit of a dent here where it's being constructed but that's okay that adds to the detail 12:04.930 --> 12:08.750 in the door itself that is coming along really well. 12:08.800 --> 12:10.270 How are your models coming along. 12:10.270 --> 12:15.520 I'd love to see them please share them in the discussions so everybody can see what you're up to in 12:15.520 --> 12:16.570 your designs. 12:16.570 --> 12:20.060 If you're going for an alternative style I love seeing those as well. 12:20.060 --> 12:23.260 If you're not following along with the Gothic church what are you doing. 12:23.260 --> 12:24.840 I can't wait to see it. 12:25.030 --> 12:30.060 So remember to share them in the discussions and I will see you guys in the next lecture.