Round Inset

[supertom44]

Ok so its been well over 18 months since I have tried to model anything and boy does it show lol.

Trying to model a subway car (train), and ran into a small issues with creating the doors.

They have a window in them with rounded corners, so my first attempt I created the door out of a box then used insert edge loops to lay out the window, then deleted faces and extruded and merged, I tried bevelling the corners to round them out but this gave me some pinching and strange results, I got slightly better results turning fill ngons off but when I come to bevel the edgers around the window to round them it goes nasty lol.

So second attempt I tried extruding the face and just scaling it in but it still gave me nasty errors.

I want it to have rounded corners and bevelled edges so they dont look so sharp.

Whats the best way of achieving this?

Cheers

[faux]

Not sure about a 'best way' but my usual method for something like this is to:

Start with a polyPipe and delete all but the inner tube faces, arrange them as the corners. After that extrude out then append across to make a complete surface

[supertom44]

Ah so instead of modelling the whole in the door you model the door around the hole.

Cheers I'll give it a try, think I need to dig out my advanced modelling dvd and get some more practise lol.

[supertom44]

So Ive had a play around this morning and as usual your right faux, it worked well.

I also tried another method of projecting a curve onto a nurbs surface then trimming the surface and converting to polygons, it worked quite well actually, but I think ill stick to your method.

Cheers again.

PS - Scripting is so much more fun than modelling lol.

[faux]

Looking good Mr Tom...

...now where's that w.i.p thread!?

[supertom44]

Haha I did consider it but then I got embarrassed by my modelling skills or lack off and also progress is very slow.

I'm still messing around with different methods of modelling in general, I'll start a thread if I ever finish modelling it as I want to create an animation for it as part of my show reel.