WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:06.930 Welcome to the malty resolution modifier in this video you will learn how to use the malty resolution 00:06.930 --> 00:07.940 modifier. 00:08.280 --> 00:15.210 See the similarities to the subsurface division modifier and see that it is great from multiple resolutions 00:15.270 --> 00:22.170 of a single model will learn how to control sharp edges using another technique for also works with 00:22.170 --> 00:28.110 the subsurface division modifier and understand that it is best applied to a base mesh that is close 00:28.380 --> 00:32.820 to the final lower poly version of the model you're working on. 00:32.820 --> 00:35.740 So let's go hop straight on over in a blender. 00:37.020 --> 00:42.900 Okay so we're back over in blender and the first thing we're going to have a look at is the sub surface 00:42.900 --> 00:47.870 division modifier some just going to go ahead and apply it straight away to this cube. 00:48.060 --> 00:49.790 So we've played with these before. 00:49.810 --> 00:52.510 I'm going to take them up to a level of five. 00:52.710 --> 01:00.360 So we end up with 12000 triangles and we end up with a relatively smooth ball shape especially if we 01:00.360 --> 01:02.320 turn on smooth shading. 01:02.330 --> 01:08.170 Now one of the things that we can do when we're in the subsurface division modifier is when we hop in 01:08.170 --> 01:15.230 to edit mode we can actually see the effects of what's going on and that isn't the case with the multi 01:15.240 --> 01:16.500 resolution modifier. 01:16.610 --> 01:22.260 And the option to turn it on and off if he ever did want to do that is that on the modifiers tab over 01:22.260 --> 01:28.200 here there is a cube with four vertices highlighted and that means display the modify in edit mode not 01:28.200 --> 01:30.380 all modifiers can do that. 01:30.480 --> 01:32.350 The subsurface division can. 01:32.400 --> 01:36.630 So let's talk about creases how to make something sharp. 01:36.930 --> 01:42.060 So there are a number of ways of doing that so one of the ways that we already know about is perhaps 01:42.060 --> 01:50.430 to add a loop cut in and then pull the vertices closer together and we can even inset the face here 01:50.640 --> 01:52.740 or even put them on top of one another. 01:52.740 --> 01:55.060 And when you do put them on top of one another. 01:55.110 --> 01:58.130 So let's just move them on top. 01:58.920 --> 02:01.430 We end up with a very very sharp edge. 02:01.530 --> 02:06.170 And this is one of the examples where perhaps you did want to put geometry on top of one another. 02:06.180 --> 02:11.880 Unfortunately you don't generally get really sharp edges like that unless it's a knife. 02:11.880 --> 02:14.890 In real life some asking to undo those steps there. 02:14.900 --> 02:18.310 So we end up back without those that extra geometry. 02:18.300 --> 02:24.270 The other thing we can do in order to make sure we don't have geometry is actually select edges so you 02:24.270 --> 02:26.500 can use the vertex silhouette or face select to give us. 02:26.500 --> 02:32.700 I'm going to select the four edges at the bottom here and if we go to the properties panel we can open 02:32.700 --> 02:39.270 up that and go to edges data and go to mean creese and turn that up and we can see we get to a very 02:39.270 --> 02:41.610 similar level we were before. 02:41.700 --> 02:46.440 Very very powerful However because we don't have the extra geometry there. 02:46.470 --> 02:53.130 Notice how you have some shading artefacts around this edge here because the shade doesn't quite know 02:53.130 --> 02:58.130 what to do if we were in flat shading mode need to be an object mode to do that. 02:58.240 --> 03:00.600 You will see that it looks sharp again. 03:00.600 --> 03:07.860 So there are benefits to having a extra geometry there because it helps the shade and know really what's 03:07.860 --> 03:09.440 happening underneath. 03:09.720 --> 03:15.150 So that's one way of making sure there is a shortcut for that which is shift in E. 03:15.480 --> 03:22.080 And then you can control that level with the mouse and obviously that's a much quicker to pull together 03:22.140 --> 03:27.100 a certain shape and you can see here because we've got fundamentally were starting with a cube. 03:27.270 --> 03:31.520 If we look at it it pinches in four separate corners here. 03:32.380 --> 03:37.200 And that's where those shading artefacts have come from when that is set at 100 percent. 03:37.270 --> 03:43.990 And when you put smooth shading on so smooth shading you can see it pinches here here in here. 03:43.990 --> 03:48.570 And it's ultimately that's just adhering to the underlying geometry. 03:48.590 --> 03:50.820 So now we've played with those particular tools. 03:50.830 --> 03:58.360 Let's see how that works if we go ahead and add in a multi resolution modify nothing happens initially 03:58.360 --> 04:01.170 because we need to go hit this subdivide button. 04:01.450 --> 04:07.510 Now as always be very careful when you are working with anything that does subdivision you can very 04:07.510 --> 04:10.230 quickly end up at a crazy level. 04:10.240 --> 04:18.370 So whereas the subdivision's surface modifier caps out at what was it about six levels of subdivision 04:18.590 --> 04:26.020 already on eight and at seven hundred and eighty six thousand polygons we can go to nine which is three 04:26.020 --> 04:30.100 million polygons and I'm not going to click subdivide again because there's a good chance that I will 04:30.370 --> 04:35.800 either lock up blender or cause it to crash so I'm not kind to do that during this demonstration. 04:35.800 --> 04:37.510 Now we do have to be careful here. 04:37.540 --> 04:40.720 When working in such high resolutions. 04:40.820 --> 04:46.960 But this high resolution is very good for sculpting because it gives you a fine control over the geometry 04:46.960 --> 04:48.000 of your mesh. 04:48.010 --> 04:51.580 So what we can do here is actually turn down the preview amounts. 04:51.640 --> 04:53.980 So let's say something like two. 04:54.120 --> 04:58.030 Now that's going to be a bit too dense on the term flat shading back on. 04:58.030 --> 05:01.290 So you can see the underlying mesh that is creating there. 05:01.690 --> 05:06.810 So that's quite low polygon and you probably could get away with one lower. 05:06.850 --> 05:08.610 Yeah do that. 05:08.620 --> 05:14.800 But when we go into sculpt mode now we see that we've got a lovely smooth surface which we can start 05:14.800 --> 05:23.200 working on so a little bit jerky at the moment but it's got far more control than the lower poly version. 05:23.200 --> 05:30.930 When we hop out of that in to object mode we can see the effect that it's made on the lower poly version 05:30.940 --> 05:35.440 so actually changes the low poly version too which is incredibly powerful. 05:35.440 --> 05:36.850 Now there are some caveats. 05:36.850 --> 05:43.660 If we go into edit mode we just see the cube again which isn't very helpful if you've got to modify 05:43.660 --> 05:46.540 the geometry in this particular case. 05:46.540 --> 05:52.630 This is what I mean by when I say when you're close to the fine or low poly version it doesnt have to 05:52.630 --> 05:59.080 be the final low poly version but you need something that resembles the lowest pot level on this preview 05:59.080 --> 06:00.630 that we've currently got set. 06:00.760 --> 06:06.670 So a preview of three so what I'm going to do there is not do any more sculpting because that is going 06:06.670 --> 06:07.720 to be a waste of time. 06:07.720 --> 06:15.440 What we need to do is actually go ahead and apply a certain level of detail first. 06:15.440 --> 06:20.170 Now you may have made this manually so I'm just going to close off the modifier completely. 06:20.290 --> 06:25.810 I'm going to use a subsurface division modifier to generate a low poly and let's call it a bullet. 06:25.810 --> 06:27.570 It kind of looks like one. 06:27.580 --> 06:32.950 So here's my low poly bullet and I'm going to apply that so that's my low poly model when I go into 06:33.040 --> 06:33.600 edit mode. 06:33.610 --> 06:37.100 I can see physical geometry here which is great. 06:37.120 --> 06:41.790 Now when I go back into the multi resolution modify and obviously crank that up. 06:41.960 --> 06:45.620 It it's very tempting to click on the actual preview level to move up. 06:45.620 --> 06:52.720 Don't you click on the subdivide and Im not going to go any higher than 5 on this count and will drop 06:52.720 --> 06:59.890 the preview back down to zero because that is ultimately the preview and its light and fast in the viewport. 06:59.890 --> 07:04.930 At this point as well and then when I go into sculpt mode it goes to the higher resolution version. 07:04.930 --> 07:11.770 Now if I decide to add some detail on here let's just wade all about a bit and get that on there and 07:11.770 --> 07:15.850 then put some let's say smaller spots on it doesn't really matter. 07:15.930 --> 07:18.000 The amount of detail we're going for here. 07:18.160 --> 07:24.350 But this is a detail that won't resolve when we have a look at it in edit mode. 07:25.560 --> 07:29.990 Notice that it hasn't changed in object mode as the geometry. 07:30.120 --> 07:34.960 We need a preview level of at least one to see that the underlying geometry changes. 07:35.060 --> 07:37.360 But in edit mode it does not. 07:37.400 --> 07:41.940 There is a button here called apply base which will sort that out for us so if we go to object mode 07:42.270 --> 07:47.760 and say we're happy with that level of geometry and the shape that it's created we can go ahead and 07:47.760 --> 07:55.200 apply base and once we've done that we can then go back into edit mode and see how it's really changed 07:55.200 --> 07:56.970 the mesh and then alter it accordingly. 07:56.970 --> 08:02.130 If we want to that is an optional step of course and gives you more control. 08:02.580 --> 08:09.360 So when we're in object mode here and we can see the underlying geometry here what would be really cool 08:09.390 --> 08:16.380 is being able to bake the detail of the higher poly version onto this lower poly model and you can do 08:16.380 --> 08:17.090 that as well. 08:17.100 --> 08:22.230 Now we're not going to do that in this particular section but you can already see how if you had a high 08:22.470 --> 08:29.850 poly model whether it be a character or anything else you can actually get high detail and transfer 08:29.850 --> 08:36.770 it to an exact low poly version of it very quickly using the multi resolution modifier because we've 08:36.770 --> 08:42.700 got the low poly version here at only three thousand polygons if I'm looking up here at the top right. 08:43.140 --> 08:48.020 And every hopping to sculpt mode we can see that we're really working with underneath. 08:48.150 --> 08:55.140 Seven hundred and eighty six thousand four hundred thirty two polygons which is significantly more than 08:55.200 --> 09:02.030 the low poly version but we can probably get all of this detail applied to that low poly version. 09:02.150 --> 09:08.190 And through normal maps and bump maps etc. and it look pretty much the same in fact I'm going to use 09:08.190 --> 09:13.140 this as a demonstration not in this lecture but in a future one so I'm going to go ahead and just save 09:13.140 --> 09:17.460 that file after I've made the blob and call it a blob. 09:17.470 --> 09:17.920 Why not. 09:17.940 --> 09:19.110 I'm in the wrong area. 09:19.110 --> 09:21.590 Make sure I'm in the right area and I do. 09:21.590 --> 09:26.250 As always I do recommend especially when you're playing with modifiers or rendering that you make sure 09:26.250 --> 09:30.420 you safe because there's a good chance blender might crashing you some and put this in my resources 09:30.420 --> 09:36.110 folder and call this multi rez blob because that is all it is. 09:36.150 --> 09:37.150 At the moment. 09:38.650 --> 09:40.340 Go save that file. 09:40.610 --> 09:41.140 Excellent. 09:41.150 --> 09:43.110 All sorted now of course. 09:43.130 --> 09:45.140 I've got a challenge for you. 09:45.200 --> 09:50.160 I would like you to go ahead and use the multi rez modify your scene. 09:50.170 --> 09:57.170 Now I will be making a basic pillar getting the size and shape right and then increasing it to a level 09:57.170 --> 10:00.730 of details or b type of level I may even go above that. 10:00.830 --> 10:05.990 Of course if you've already done Pillar's or you need to make something else you're not making a gothic 10:05.990 --> 10:07.220 church for instance. 10:07.220 --> 10:11.750 Perhaps fine ornaments or if you are doing a church practice an angel or something like that really 10:11.750 --> 10:16.960 challenge yourself at this point to make the best use of a multi resolution modifier. 10:17.330 --> 10:25.160 Now I would suggest applying a mortie Rose of around four subdivisions that is usually the right difference 10:25.160 --> 10:31.560 between the low poly and the high poly detail then it gives you a lot of scope for modifying. 10:31.640 --> 10:37.820 Of course choose whether or not you want to use a bit of sculpting in there to perhaps add a bit of 10:37.850 --> 10:43.700 a symmetry a lot of things we build in any 3D modelling package tend to be very symmetrical and you 10:43.700 --> 10:46.070 start prodding and poking vertices. 10:46.080 --> 10:49.060 Of course the sculpting is a great way of doing that. 10:49.280 --> 10:54.290 Set the origin to the centre of the base of whatever object you're doing and the reason for that is 10:54.290 --> 10:57.420 it enables you to position it a lot lots easier. 10:57.570 --> 11:02.570 Then if it's not because then on the object when you're in object mode you can actually just move it 11:02.570 --> 11:07.500 to the floor for instance or move it to a certain height or position with great ease. 11:07.580 --> 11:10.820 Some of the mini set in the origins of the centre of my base of my pillar. 11:11.210 --> 11:15.280 Remember to use the mean edge crease to keep the desired shape. 11:15.380 --> 11:20.810 Just to give you a heads up here before we plough back into blender we are going to start with a low 11:20.840 --> 11:23.750 poly model something looking similar to this. 11:23.840 --> 11:25.800 We are going um of May. 11:25.820 --> 11:29.510 Im probably going to make mine in some sections we can see we've got a base there. 11:29.510 --> 11:33.520 We've got three or sorry four sections there that look the same. 11:33.560 --> 11:34.560 Very similar. 11:34.820 --> 11:39.400 And then of course we've got this area here and the top one at the top. 11:39.440 --> 11:44.320 Now when I say apply I mean edge press when you go on apply V. 11:44.360 --> 11:49.120 Multi resolution modifier and something like this it ends up looking a bit like this which is. 11:49.250 --> 11:56.090 Well it doesn't look quite right now of course we can construct this with detail using similar methods 11:56.090 --> 12:03.320 to the chess set that we've done but just applying the mean edge on it will make it look much better 12:03.320 --> 12:08.270 much more crisp in place as you can see the difference there and also the rendering artefacts tend to 12:08.270 --> 12:09.510 disappear as well. 12:09.530 --> 12:11.950 You make it a bit neater So that's brilliant. 12:12.140 --> 12:14.950 So balls are video now and give that a go. 12:17.770 --> 12:18.480 Okay guys. 12:18.490 --> 12:19.630 Welcome back. 12:19.630 --> 12:22.280 Let's go use the mortie resolution modifier. 12:24.060 --> 12:28.860 Okay so we're back over in blender and I've got a few things that I need to work on. 12:28.860 --> 12:35.310 First of all and that is how high does my pills have to be because I haven't a clue. 12:35.380 --> 12:41.400 I've four completely forgotten to manage my measurements here so let's go to my mike off a church. 12:41.400 --> 12:43.650 I'm going to go into walkaround mode. 12:43.680 --> 12:44.730 Oh not with a camera. 12:44.760 --> 12:48.860 Moving the camera if I do that so it's position that I'm just moved away. 12:48.990 --> 12:51.550 So it's some points in here. 12:51.550 --> 12:54.310 All those things have appeared there. 12:54.360 --> 13:01.170 We're going to have pillows coming up to these points so I need to have a look at what height these 13:01.170 --> 13:05.830 rats compared to the rest of our model. 13:06.120 --> 13:13.860 And I think it's going to be eight points two because we've got a point to Undeground then we've got 13:14.240 --> 13:17.410 a one wall section to wall sections. 13:17.490 --> 13:21.540 So I think we're going to be at a level of eight point two so I'm going to go for that. 13:21.720 --> 13:27.570 And we've got the width here also I'll probably do is import one of these vaults into a separate file 13:27.600 --> 13:31.480 and use that as a reference and then just remove it when necessary. 13:31.590 --> 13:34.750 And I seem to have everything turned on at the moment anyway. 13:35.250 --> 13:40.110 I'm also going to sort out this belltower because belltower don't look like that I've actually had a 13:40.110 --> 13:44.790 look at reference material and as cool as that is it doesn't help. 13:44.850 --> 13:46.870 I thought it didn't look right and now I know why. 13:46.890 --> 13:49.200 It's because they don't look like that normally. 13:49.200 --> 13:49.710 Brilliant. 13:49.800 --> 13:55.180 Okay so I'm going to go and get all that stuff ready and I'll see you guys back in a few moments. 13:56.390 --> 14:01.990 Okay so I've set up now a basic column as you can see here at the appropriate high. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.710 I'm not making four of them because these are buttoned up next to one another. 14:05.810 --> 14:11.930 I would end up with them overlapping basically So I'm going to place them in the scene manually and 14:11.930 --> 14:12.820 use arrays. 14:12.860 --> 14:18.020 But there's my basic column using this Voltz as reference as you can see I've got some legacy stuff 14:18.020 --> 14:19.590 left over from the vaults. 14:19.640 --> 14:22.490 I'm going to clear that down I'm happy with the height afterwhile. 14:22.520 --> 14:27.890 I will after I've compared it in the Gothic church scene so let's hop over there and see if this column 14:27.920 --> 14:28.710 fits. 14:29.620 --> 14:35.320 So I've imported appended it into the scene and we're going to save this particular one because it's 14:35.320 --> 14:40.130 just for testing by can see here that the pillars are indeed the right height. 14:40.150 --> 14:42.040 In my scene absolutely fine. 14:42.100 --> 14:45.510 They are too big of a right height but they're too big. 14:45.610 --> 14:51.140 So this is one of these great examples of doing things as lean as possible bringing them in. 14:51.160 --> 14:55.960 Arguably I should have brought them in earlier if I was being lean because then I wouldn't have this 14:56.410 --> 14:58.430 oddity around the roofline. 14:58.450 --> 15:01.800 Perhaps I'll make that into the model since it's interior. 15:01.960 --> 15:03.630 I might even just leave that. 15:03.660 --> 15:07.960 No one can ever see it although we've got an exterior Plus in case you're looking out the window. 15:08.290 --> 15:09.930 So let's go back into the church. 15:10.030 --> 15:12.390 So I'm happy with the height. 15:12.400 --> 15:14.180 I'm not happy with the width there. 15:14.230 --> 15:21.070 They can be a lot thinner and obviously a bit more shapely as well to reflect the opulent nature of 15:21.070 --> 15:22.990 the rest of this building. 15:22.990 --> 15:30.040 So with that in mind I'm going to go in and model my pillars and I will see you guys back in a bit. 15:32.000 --> 15:35.920 Okay so I've moved my final pillars in. 15:35.930 --> 15:40.370 Well perhaps not my final but the ones on working with at the moment a vault of the top of the church 15:40.370 --> 15:41.510 as you can see there. 15:41.720 --> 15:46.410 And let's go and fly on inside and take a look at the pillars. 15:46.410 --> 15:51.530 So I've added some detail to the pillars and made them a bit smaller. 15:51.710 --> 15:56.950 And of course the final thing is just to do a quick render here and see how it pans out. 15:56.960 --> 15:58.720 Now there's some alignment time. 15:58.760 --> 16:07.460 Now it looks like I might need to do in between these that one spots on as does that one actually I 16:07.460 --> 16:10.170 think this was just looking odd because of the corner. 16:10.190 --> 16:15.890 So there are some extra bits geometry I can put in there are not an architect after all. 16:16.040 --> 16:18.170 But that is looking pretty good. 16:18.200 --> 16:21.780 So the final thing is to do is to render it out and see how it looks. 16:21.830 --> 16:23.210 How are yours coming along. 16:23.210 --> 16:28.110 I'd love to see them in the discussion so please share them so I can see how you're getting on. 16:28.130 --> 16:30.010 And so the other students can as well. 16:30.110 --> 16:34.230 And of course as always I will see you guys in the next lecture.