How to make Cuban Chain Link In Blender

hey everyone it's gg i'm going to very quickly show you how to make a cuban chain link in this video i'm a blender 2.9 and when you start off new in general you're going to see this cube you can go ahead and hit x to delete that shift a curve circle hit one on your number pads and go into this side view if you don't have one you can always just do alt no muscle click and drag to pull that around so now you want to go into the edit mode and you can hit tab to do that select the middle vertice doesn't matter which one is selected you're just going to go ahead and drag it out to start to make this kind of figure eight infinity shape it doesn't have to be completely perfect but you do want to make sure that they're pretty even okay and then you're going to alt then wrestle click and drag select the middle again go ahead and pull it around so that you can make that kind of figure eight looking shape all right go into your object data properties go to geometry and add in some depth if it's too thick or too skinny you can always fix that later and i want to adjust this just a little bit so it has a little more height i'm going to click one of the handles grab and because this is going along the z-axis i'm going to tap z just to make sure it stays straight and you can use that to use that little trick to grab or scale anything along whatever axis you want whether it be z x or y okay so now we're gonna hit tab to go back into object mode w convert to mesh because you need to have this as a mesh when you go into sculpt mode you're going to go down to box trim click in an upper corner and drag down it's easier to get to where you need to be that way and you're going to trim around where it dips in and you're going to do the same to the bottom half all right go back to layer layout or modeling and that's looking pretty good now you're going to go to your modifier tab at modifier array change your factor just so that it starts to connect a little bit and this is a little skinny so i want to make sure it's a little thicker just for what i wanted to show you of course you can leave it then like this too hit tab to go into edit mode a to select all s and drag it until you get your desired thickness i think that's good i'm just going to up the count if it's starting to touch here you don't really want that so you can adjust your factor let's do 5.5 for this that's pretty decent nothing's really touching there nothing's touching at all so now go ahead click in the 3d viewport in the 3db port curve circle scale scale it up select the cuban chain link again or add modifier curve eyedropper select the circle click on the circle tab ctrl t to twist it if you want more of like a kind of bracelet want a different shape hit tab that's the gist of it you can also play around with the circle and change the way this looks if you want to put this around someone's neck or character's neck or whatever you can always up the count or you can hit s to scale it until it links up again of course you can go into your shading [Music] new [Music] up the metallic lower the roughness change your base color if you want it to be silver that's fine if you wanted to be gold just pick a yellowy color and that is the gist of how to make a cuban chain link i hope this video was helpful for you if you have any other questions for me about this feel free to add a comment just go ahead and like and subscribe and stay tuned for the next video thank you for watching

Channel: JijisWrld

Views: 41,012

Keywords: Blender, Second life, Secondlife, Chain, Cuban Chain, Meshing

Id: g9KTofHBBXA

Length: 5min 16sec (316 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 03 2021