Wrap geometry on a surface in Blender.

let's say i have a detail like this and this is model normally and i want this to bend across a surface like this so i want this to flawlessly curve around the surface so what i might try is use the curve modifier or use the lattice modifier or any other modifiers to try and match it to the surface but the result is not going to be perfect so let me just show you the end result of the technique we are using today let me just disable these and here here i have the same detail object curving around the surface inside an inset and it is curving flawlessly across both directions so how do you just use a curve object to deform this then it would have only deformed in this direction but as you can see here this is deforming very gently around all the all of the surface and this is really good so in order to bend an object like this you need to make sure that the detail object has enough geometry so that it can preserve it safe no matter how it is deformed so let me just disable this and let's see the original object and let me isolate this and go into edit mode so see that it has got enough geometry to support any way it bends so the perfect and ideal way would be to model this in sub d modeling and give it enough geo but you can also try slicing the mess with with a cube that is subdivided a lot of times or if you have a tool like hard ups you can do mesh tools and do a dice so this will do the equivalent of projecting and a subdivided cube knife projecting a subdivided cube and if i click this and go into it more it looks horrible but i don't need to do this here because this is this already has enough geometry to support the deformation so i'm going to undo it okay all right now that we know the effect we're after we can we can try to do this so select the object and snap the cursor to the selected object so use the shift as menu and if you don't have the spy menu this is from the machine tools add-on and i've put a link in the description below it's a free add-on and it does a couple of great things and so after i've snapped this cursor to the object i'm going to add a plane and tab into edit mode and scale it along the y-axis so that it fully covers this fan of this detail and i'm going to subdivide it so that this deforms properly and you should make sure that this plane sits at the middle halfway between the vertical vertical dimensions so it can deform properly and i select the object and shift select the plane and then parent it so that if i move this by chance then it it is also going to move and now i select the detail object and then add a modifier and then select a surface deform modifier and then choose the plane as the target and hit on bind so now we can select the plane and then we can add a swing wrap modifier and then select the sphere as the target so now you can see that this is deforming smoothly around the surface and then we we don't have to worry about anything else you can just disable the visibility of this plane and then you can go to the object properties and then you can uncheck the sew and render so that it doesn't show up in renders or you can you can just apply this and then just pick in the details and that is it you can add as many detail as you like with this procedure

Channel: DupliVerts

Views: 39,831

Keywords: Hardsurface, Blender, Hardops, Modifiers, Shrinkwrap, Surface Deform

Id: -XYuno3DgAo

Length: 5min 37sec (337 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 11 2020