Make a corinthian column?

[Madbat]

Holy moly that's a complex  bit of modeling.

[Aelin]

Yep, I guess he is to another level of skill!
I'm trying to take only a detail (3 'palms') on a photo, but I'm not sure if I could go until the end.
What I discovered today, it's we can add (an)other point(s) on one side only, if we need to add one in more in the way of video I'm afraid anyway this tuto is easier with simple props like weapons. But it's good to continue until the end to have the last word of story.

[Aelin]

After one hour to do the turn of interesting palm (because suddenly x went to right in place of left, and inversely ) I obtained a not bad at all shape. But it's all. After I can't continue with holes and curves of palm
So my only way is to look like you the frame of other column That is a lot of faces, mainly tri-faces.

[Jherrith]

Not enough

[mtdana]

Not enough

but when it all makes sense you have had way too much

[mtdana]

After one hour to do the turn of interesting palm (because suddenly x went to right in place of left, and inversely ) I obtained a not bad at all shape. But it's all. After I can't continue with holes and curves of palm
So my only way is to look like you the frame of other column That is a lot of faces, mainly tri-faces.

The base should be much easier to handle, unless you take J's advice   Lol!!
You wouldn't model the tri-faces, that can be added on export. I tried again and the Column model does load into wings3d if you wait long enough, I separated just the top part and it is made up of 714 separate pieces!!! This is crazy stuff - lol!

[Aelin]

No, I prefer quads indeed. But just the stalk for one palm is a pain. After a night of rest, now W3d decides if I continue to "sweep" that X=Z and conversely

In place of I prefer

[mtdana]

No, I prefer quads indeed. But just the stalk for one palm is a pain. After a night of rest, now W3d decides if I continue to "sweep" that X=Z and conversely

Hi Aelin, I hope Wings is behaving better! Here is another approach I tried after watching these tutorials











The pictures lists the commands I used. Bend was quite easy after several tries, the first bend was the entire cone and a second bend was just the top. The Bend command only appears when points are selected.


Put On was a little harder to get right. Select a face on the object to clone then open the context menu and start Put On with a right click. Select 3 faces on the trunk and then execute put on with a right click. Turn the branch 180 and move, then repeat. I first tried to put on all six branches but the three on the opposite side of the truck were upside down - I don't know why :)  There is another benefit to cloning, if you UV map the object to be cloned, then all the clones will share the same UV map. At the end you can combine all the pieces into object. I hope this gives you some more ideas, have a great day!!!


   


       







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[Jherrith]

but when it all makes sense you have had way too much

Very probably

[Aelin]

 :yeow: Cones... I have totally forgotten their existence
Yeah, I learnt the other day to bend thanks to the first video  He is a great teacher, 'cause it's him who has videos for "the dock".