Blender hard/softedges

[Leopardo]

hi, i wanted to know what's the equivalent of the soft/hard edges of wing 3D in blender?
thanks!

 

[touareg]

I don't know anything about wings 3D. But for blender I imagine it is subsurf modifier.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modelling/Meshes/Subdivision_Surfaces

 

[Soil]

No, it's not. While subsurf(by the way, you should keep your fingers off of that unless you know what you're really doing) adds more polys to make a model look more smooth.

The equivalent is soft and hard edges
You set them hard/soft in the editing panel(press F9) right under the material section(set smooth/set solid). Note the 'AutoSmooth' function top right, in the next panel.

 

[Leopardo]

ok thanks!
I tried using subsurf and it made blender crash

 

[touareg]

@Soil: Thanks from me too! I confused the terms. Just started with blender and learned about subsurf, I thought «wow», I can help someone, but well, too bad. 

@Leopardo: Actually it shouldn't make blender crash, maybe you set the number too high and your hardware couldn't handle it?

 

[Leopardo]

yeh, i put it at lvl 6 then pressed F12 to see how it would look like (and since the model was already 4000 polys... Kerash)

 

[touareg]

I read that you shouldn't really set it higher than 2 - 4 or something. Now I will be careful with that too, because it can make the program crash. Hope you saved your work before! 

 

[Barf]

just for reference, 4000 triangles subdivided 6x is 16.3 million triangles....even subdivided 1x its 16000 triangles.
I dont think sub-d's have any use in videogames right now...but voxel octree's look promising, but thats wayyyyy off topic.

 

[touareg]

Guesses it wouldn't be useful for game models though the subsurf makes it easier. At the moment I try to get a grip on modeling itself and later on going to low poly game models. To keep it offtopic: Barf, I really like your new face models. I hope you are still working on it!