WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:05.190 Welcome to virtex and edge slide in this video. 00:05.200 --> 00:09.520 You'll learn about edge and virtex sliding and see. 00:09.520 --> 00:17.760 This is a useful way of refining your model without having to create or remove existing geometry. 00:18.000 --> 00:19.240 So let's go explore. 00:19.350 --> 00:23.390 Jim burtis sliding and hop on over in a blender. 00:29.420 --> 00:35.900 Okay so now there were over in blender one of the first things that you'll see in is suddenly on my 00:35.900 --> 00:38.800 model your model might be a little more refined. 00:38.840 --> 00:45.470 Is that there is a certain level of detail in some places and things need a bit moving about so there's 00:45.480 --> 00:48.820 a vertex's that's sticking out there as we go around the model. 00:48.820 --> 00:50.900 So it's quite a sharp point. 00:51.080 --> 00:52.560 There's another one here. 00:52.630 --> 00:58.080 It gets a bit wobbly in places so we can straighten that up specially along this bit here. 00:58.110 --> 01:00.280 That's also very very wobbly. 01:00.290 --> 01:03.450 There's a couple of ways that we can go about sorting that out. 01:03.530 --> 01:07.720 And I'd like to introduce you to Ed sliding and virtex sliding. 01:07.730 --> 01:17.540 So for instance this syeed Edge loop Let's go to edge loops first logo s loop running all the way down 01:17.540 --> 01:20.000 there and terminating at the neck. 01:20.090 --> 01:27.410 If we wanted to do something with that we can slide it and would access the edge menu some mesh edges 01:27.410 --> 01:32.730 or control in e you notice on here there's something called Edge slide. 01:33.610 --> 01:40.240 Now we can also get to the edge slide function by pressing the G key twice so we can see here that I'm 01:40.240 --> 01:47.530 able to move the entire loop in between the two bounding loops and indeed push up against the next one. 01:47.530 --> 01:52.440 Now if you do end up as you can see there with it's smack bang up against the next one. 01:52.690 --> 01:58.690 Ah I've got merged vs. turned on so that fortunately got rid of that graphical artefact we were seeing 01:58.690 --> 01:59.050 there. 01:59.080 --> 02:05.170 If I didn't have it turned on this press the G key twice and slide it in you could see it as Ed slide 02:05.170 --> 02:09.070 down in the lower left and slide it all the way up against this one. 02:09.070 --> 02:15.970 We get this horrible artefacts coming up and that's a good sign that you've got an intersecting faces 02:15.970 --> 02:21.900 or in fact in this case two edges right on top of one another and we've got all this. 02:22.090 --> 02:24.350 Well not very smooth shading any more. 02:24.360 --> 02:30.550 You can see it abruptly changes blender literally doesn't know what to do because you've got one edge 02:30.550 --> 02:32.680 and another edge on top of one another. 02:32.920 --> 02:39.610 And what smooth shaven tries to do is sort of interpolate between the normals of that particular edge 02:40.060 --> 02:42.080 and it can't do that if they're on top of one another. 02:42.130 --> 02:47.720 So it goes all messy and it wound and undo that now cause that's not something I want to do. 02:47.770 --> 02:54.250 Similar to Ed's sliding is vertex sliding and that is simply when you are you probably guessing what's 02:54.250 --> 02:59.540 coming along here where you grab a vertex and this tiny pressure Gee twice. 02:59.710 --> 03:05.800 And it goes to virtex slide or indeed you can get it through control and V for the virtex manual. 03:05.800 --> 03:11.990 Go down to the menu system itself and we end up with virtex slide as well and you can see the short 03:11.990 --> 03:16.640 cut for that as well can be shift and V. 03:16.990 --> 03:20.520 Okay so now we're actually sliding with the G key twice. 03:20.560 --> 03:27.450 We can see that we're actually moving along the path of that edge easier in this direction or that direction 03:27.500 --> 03:31.300 you can see here that you can only go in one direction at any one time. 03:31.300 --> 03:35.740 You also get this this all white sort of guide coming up as well. 03:35.740 --> 03:40.270 Now I've also got snapping turned on some is going to turn that off so it's not going to do anything 03:40.600 --> 03:45.270 abrupt so I can press G twice R and D shift and V. 03:45.500 --> 03:52.210 It's just a short cut to the same place and this is literally just moving it along the edges. 03:52.240 --> 04:00.280 This vertex is part of and that can be incredibly powerful if we if we look at the side of a head here 04:00.280 --> 04:01.010 going round. 04:01.030 --> 04:05.910 We've got for instance this area. 04:05.920 --> 04:12.500 Here's all a bit lumpy so we can go here and say well you know this loop that's coming around here. 04:12.610 --> 04:14.270 Well this one here for instance. 04:14.290 --> 04:19.120 Might just go it does it actually add anything useful. 04:19.120 --> 04:20.140 Did I had it there for the. 04:20.140 --> 04:21.840 Is I think I might have done so. 04:21.900 --> 04:23.470 Is this one here useful. 04:23.470 --> 04:29.710 I don't think it is and if that's the case we can always delete that and dissolve edges and that will 04:29.710 --> 04:31.700 get rid of fat one. 04:31.720 --> 04:37.480 There being a problem now of course we've got this here that's sticking out a little. 04:37.520 --> 04:38.500 This one here. 04:38.500 --> 04:42.320 And by moving them with a combination of manually moving them. 04:42.490 --> 04:45.350 Or of course using the slide functionality. 04:45.370 --> 04:53.050 It's a slice of functionality is absolutely brilliant for lets say we need to move this one going around 04:53.050 --> 04:54.240 here. 04:54.560 --> 04:59.300 Yep that one going round there that's a good one to pick and just move it out a little wider. 04:59.350 --> 05:01.350 That's the one defining the eye. 05:01.460 --> 05:07.600 Let's not pick that one so this one here we can press the G key twice and pull it back along those edges 05:07.600 --> 05:13.650 that already exist and that will help smooth out our model as it goes around. 05:13.680 --> 05:20.880 That's the face morphs around so that is how you use the edge and virtex sliding tools. 05:21.100 --> 05:25.050 And of course no lecture is complete without a little challenge. 05:26.640 --> 05:30.090 I would like you to go ahead and refine your model. 05:30.450 --> 05:35.830 So go around your model and check for your edge loops are where you need them to be. 05:35.880 --> 05:37.920 Do a little bit of adjustment again. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.920 Well basically doing the overall shape at the moment. 05:40.920 --> 05:44.740 I've noticed mine starting to get a bit flat in places. 05:44.760 --> 05:48.630 Do you need as much geometry as you've currently got. 05:48.630 --> 05:54.750 The main area of focus really at the moment is the face and there's going to be this side of the head 05:54.780 --> 06:02.790 itself to do the ear in a bit but the back of a head is it can be quite large quads going on there. 06:02.790 --> 06:08.100 If you want it we don't need that much detail around the back of a head because there isn't that much 06:08.100 --> 06:09.450 detail. 06:09.450 --> 06:16.230 Check your vertices too and move them if necessary as a move them using slide tool if they need adjustment 06:16.260 --> 06:19.170 or indeed move them manually as well. 06:19.170 --> 06:21.220 Or use any other techniques that you want. 06:21.240 --> 06:25.850 It's a pause a video now and do a little of refining of your model. 06:28.030 --> 06:28.740 Okay guys. 06:28.750 --> 06:29.700 Welcome back. 06:29.860 --> 06:34.980 Let's go and have a look at my model and see if there's any intermediate refining that we can do. 06:37.220 --> 06:38.540 Okay so where. 06:38.540 --> 06:40.080 Back over here. 06:40.170 --> 06:45.670 And I'm just having a look at things like this loop coming around here. 06:45.680 --> 06:46.940 Is this a loop anymore. 06:46.940 --> 06:48.390 No it's not. 06:48.390 --> 06:56.420 So what's happened here we've got quad running around here that's pretty sharp just there as well. 06:56.420 --> 07:00.800 It's difficult sometimes get an angle on it because if you're out of this view it looks at a really 07:00.800 --> 07:01.830 sharp view. 07:02.000 --> 07:07.290 Around here it looks quite gradual but I think that one does need lifting up ever so slightly. 07:07.580 --> 07:10.600 I didn't mean to press the vignola I mean the press shift and V. 07:11.690 --> 07:17.650 If that up ever so slightly and did the same with this one and again by using shift V rather than just 07:17.650 --> 07:25.630 moving its up manually you can guarantee that it's laying on line you've already defined so you don't 07:25.630 --> 07:31.010 end up pushing the model up too tightly which is very easy to do. 07:31.030 --> 07:32.400 So that's looking okay here. 07:32.410 --> 07:36.500 This is atrocious all this detail running round the back here. 07:36.590 --> 07:39.000 There's a couple of ways we can get around that. 07:39.070 --> 07:46.450 One of the first things I'd look at is whether or not we can terminate some of these loops coming around 07:46.450 --> 07:48.040 where they're not needed. 07:48.040 --> 07:53.920 So we're certainly going to need loops towards this part of the model and we can see that here. 07:53.940 --> 07:57.520 We might want another loop running around here. 07:57.670 --> 07:58.840 So I'm going to cut back in. 07:58.840 --> 08:02.090 Now we're going to end up with a triangle here that we can sort out. 08:02.250 --> 08:04.320 Amber I'm going to just come along. 08:04.320 --> 08:12.850 Our model very manually here I know and pop in that set of cuts I'm quite happy with that that's going 08:12.850 --> 08:13.990 to define that. 08:14.750 --> 08:15.640 The face. 08:15.650 --> 08:21.060 And then we've got this one running around that will hopefully define the head yes. 08:21.090 --> 08:23.290 Unhappy With that running round there. 08:23.630 --> 08:27.100 So then we've got the question of all of these other ones here. 08:27.200 --> 08:35.090 Now we can start terminating these as we go we can start merging together to make Well slightly odd 08:35.090 --> 08:36.020 quads. 08:36.020 --> 08:45.220 So for instance here we can get rid of and dissolve every other edge so it's dissolve those edges so 08:45.230 --> 08:47.020 you've got a series of faces here. 08:47.060 --> 08:56.000 Now we've got to remember at this point in time we don't need to worry too much about having a bad topology 08:56.000 --> 08:58.910 just above here we can go and fix that later. 08:58.910 --> 09:05.740 One of the first things I'm Ask going to do at this point in time is start weeding out of the verses 09:05.750 --> 09:06.250 we don't need. 09:06.320 --> 09:11.440 In fact at this point it's a speed myself up what I'm going to do is not do what holes have mapped to 09:11.450 --> 09:18.170 do and go in and select and go round the model and see where these go to surveil lead to about here 09:19.100 --> 09:24.000 here and here I think I might be wrong. 09:24.170 --> 09:25.580 That's just double check. 09:25.580 --> 09:30.050 I could actually select one and work it from there so that one there. 09:30.800 --> 09:32.000 Now one there. 09:32.120 --> 09:37.280 I'm just going to delete those will not delete them but dissolve them and then I should be able to select 09:37.280 --> 09:40.190 these loops and dissolve them. 09:41.280 --> 09:43.260 So they're starting to look a bit better. 09:43.290 --> 09:49.280 The final one is this one here so that one goes all the way round that she terminates here at the back 09:49.300 --> 09:50.760 because we are a pole. 09:50.760 --> 09:55.000 So once again I can dissolve that completely. 09:56.040 --> 09:57.250 From our model. 09:57.270 --> 09:59.940 Now that does cause a few little interesting bits. 09:59.940 --> 10:02.550 Like at the bottom here what happens. 10:02.620 --> 10:06.900 Well we can grab since I've spotted it. 10:06.930 --> 10:11.120 Grab this with virtex slap and just put that bit together there. 10:11.250 --> 10:17.740 And that ensures that at least this says loop going down the back rounded up the front. 10:17.820 --> 10:21.840 Excellent That's what I wanted to see is still hold. 10:21.840 --> 10:27.490 Now obviously it terminates here and what we can do and it's not a bad thing to terminate here. 10:27.690 --> 10:32.550 We could actually leave it like that in many ways because I don't think it's going to show up anything 10:32.550 --> 10:33.860 particularly bad. 10:33.990 --> 10:38.200 And the reason for that is at the top of the head it's not going to be animated. 10:38.250 --> 10:42.610 So we could potentially leave it for that I'd like good topology around here. 10:42.690 --> 10:45.650 So we'll work on that later when it comes to a bit of detail. 10:45.870 --> 10:53.150 This triangle at the front here be quite awesome to have that working all the way round and down. 10:53.190 --> 10:58.990 Now we've got to think here if this is a loop that runs all the way there we're missing something aren't 10:58.990 --> 11:01.280 really win this one runs all the way down. 11:01.290 --> 11:03.500 But this one is terminated with a triangle here. 11:03.570 --> 11:07.480 So one of these edges needs some extra supports. 11:08.490 --> 11:14.060 But of course that itself would be diving into the detail. 11:14.340 --> 11:20.220 Speaking of which look about I'm just looking at it from the front and that is stuck out like a sore 11:20.220 --> 11:22.680 thumb so I'm going to grab those two there. 11:22.700 --> 11:29.090 When you shift and V to slide them down ever so slightly and with snapping turned off are not v. 11:29.150 --> 11:31.830 Shift them visalus undo that shift and be. 11:31.920 --> 11:34.390 I do prefer actually pressing the G key twice. 11:34.470 --> 11:41.760 I feel like I'm not going to make too many mistakes by using that shortcut key rather than ripping my 11:41.760 --> 11:43.900 model apart accidentally. 11:43.980 --> 11:51.090 So we'll come back later on and sort out this triangle here after we've learnt a bit more about how 11:51.090 --> 11:55.490 we can define edge loops with much more detail. 11:55.500 --> 11:56.970 How is your model coming along. 11:56.970 --> 12:00.900 Did you refine it to make it a bit more in proportion. 12:00.900 --> 12:04.940 Did you have anything that was glaringly obvious standing out. 12:05.010 --> 12:10.370 Please share that work in the discussions and I will see you in the next lecture.