Problems with Geosphere

[Moxy3D]

I have scoured the internet for a tutorial on how to get a geosphere looking like a creature head (animal, beastie, etc. for a game) but still have yet to find one. I tried using a FFD on the geosphere, plus converting it to editable mesh and still have the same results. See here:

http://www.geocities.com/somenumeric...ison_geo02.jpg

Mine is NOTHING like theirs even after trying several different geodesic base types like tetra and octa.
What I would like help with is some advice or suggestions on which geosphere they used to make this low poly head. Anyone know because I'm still trying to figure it out.


-Brian W.

[earth]

Why do you even want to use a geosphere?
Geosphere is not ment for these kind of modeling, use box or spline modeling rather than this.
I have read many tuts that say that starting a model from sphere (or geosphere) is bad idea. Because you'll never good topology of polygons if you use sphere.

[haha]

Originally posted by earth
Why do you even want to use a geosphere?
Geosphere is not ment for these kind of modeling, use box or spline modeling rather than this.
I have read many tuts that say that starting a model from sphere (or geosphere) is bad idea. Because you'll never good topology of polygons if you use sphere.

thats very true... or any particular reason you after the geosphere?

[Moxy3D]

Sure, I can answer that.


There is a game called Neverwinter Nights by Bioware that allows you to add custom content into the game. So I pretty much exported one of the models that is used in the game, froze it, and used it as a reference. Anyhow the reason why I am using the geosphere is because I assume Bioware's model that I am going by used it in their modeling. Somehow, they managed to pull out a creature's head.

I just followed along. Though I have a sneaking suspicion that they could have used nurms and then converted over to an editable mesh. Not sure. The question is how? Applying the FFD helped a little with getting the contour of the beast, but still it looks... bad.

Hope that explains everything well enough. Apparently I just need to use another geo huh?

[earth]

Now I understand what you were thinking.
They used editable mesh or editable poly and then converted to editable mesh.
If I look at geosphere it consists of triangles and editable mesh too consists from triangles. I think they just modeled starting from editable poly and then converted it to mesh.

[the_Jester]

did you try opening the sample max file Bioware has on there site and seeing what the minotaur was created out of?

[Moxy3D]

Originally posted by ja8t3d
did you try opening the sample max file Bioware has on there site and seeing what the minotaur was created out of?

Yup, I did. Though they decided to actually name the parts this time unfortunately for me. Unless there is a minotaur I don't know of?

[the_Jester]

nope blast it! when i had the 3dsmax demo i couldn't get past playing w/ the animation

[Moxy3D]

Originally posted by ja8t3d
nope blast it! when i had the 3dsmax demo i couldn't get past playing w/ the animation

Heh,I think I was a little too ambitious when I changed the emitters on the fire elemental to more of an icy look. :P Still I might have found something on the net about using a geosphere to model a human head. I guess thats close enough. If that doesn't work, I'll probably end up playing with another model.

[Hired-Kabuke]

The only thing I have found about Geosphere modeling thus far can be found in Paul Steed's "Modeling a Character in 3DS Max". Take into consideration however, this material is dated and was aimed at max 3 and 4 users for low poly games. Hope that helps, oh and you can find it at Amazon, Barnes & Nobles or Borders rather easily.