How To Bend Objects in Blender - Topology Pro Tip (Aryan Tutorial)

I'm going to show you a very simple modeling trick for bending objects and blender in a non-destructive way to preserve the topology on your mesh this topic went absolutely crazy on Instagram here's what you have to do we have this Bitcoin model right here it's very high poly it's impossible to bend this without completely messing up the geometry there's no way that you can undo this if you bend it manually first of all we're going to place the 3D cursor on this coin to be more specific we have to place the 3D cursor on the bottom part of this coin and then while the 3D cursor is placed there go to shift a add a lattice you have to scale this lattice down so it's just slightly bigger than the object then go over here to the side the object data properties increase the U and the V resolution something like 5x5 or 6x6 will do it reduce the W resolution to one and now we just have a two-dimensional grid below this coin select a coin select a lattice contrl p parent the object but keep the transform now the object is parented to the lattice so if we move the lattice the coin Falls follows select a coin add modifier lattice and use this eye dropper to Target this grid which we just created now you can select the grid press stab to go to edit mode and when you move the vertices of this grid the coin is going to be reshaped accordingly if you use a lower resolution then the bending is going to be a lot more smooth anyway don't this up too much yet select the lattice activate this magnet up here switch to face project and check align rotation to Target and project individual elements now when you press G to move this Grid it's always going to take the rotation of the normal line of the face right below it so it's kind of like placing a magnet onto a curved surface it's always going to copy the rotation of the surface below wherever you place it now the only thing we have to do is bend the lattice according to the surface below luckily you can use a shrink wrap modifier for the lattice select the lattice add a shrink wrap modifier set the wrap method to Target normal project use the eye dropper to Target whatever surface you want this to bend according to tube and now when you move this coin it's always going to take the rotation of the surface below and it's also going to bend according to the shape of the surface sometimes if you find a really tight part it's going to get a little bit messy but in general this is going to look beautiful on any surface that you put it on if you want to now you can select this coin apply the lattice modifier withr a and now this is permanently applied to the mesh now you can do something else with this if you want to but be careful when you do this because you're not going to be able to undo this once you've done a few more actions so I would recommend that you duplicate this and place it somewhere else before you apply any modifiers like the damn video let me know what you want to see next and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Aryan

Views: 5,953

Keywords: blender, tutorial, aryan, topology, bend, objects

Id: 0a1B4sxSNWU

Length: 2min 48sec (168 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2024