4 ms·

Blender also has modifiers and can do many things non destructively. (Been a while since I've used Max heavily though.)

by jtxt 5y ago

wlesieutre 5y ago
Yes, but the geometry is not a modifier. The “how many rings/segments” configuration shows up during primitive creation, the geometry is generated, and that’s your geometry unless you want to delete it and make a new one. You can see what I’m talking about in 3ds here: https://youtu.be/Dp9Ozs3HjzY?t=120 https://youtu.be/Dp9Ozs3HjzY?t=120
- jtxt 5y ago
  Yes, I know what you mean now. (Perhaps they could add primitives to the modifiers for a similar workflow.) You can setup parametric primitives other ways though, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaHL7jRo6mM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaHL7jRo6mM Or putting a screw modifier on a curve... ( torus, sphere, any lathed object...) Or there's likely a number of different ways using geometry nodes. Granted it's not currently simple and intuitive though.
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    I need to try out blender's node systems. I've done a bit of texturing with Substance Designer and really liked the approach, just not been doing this kind of 3D work lately. Flipping through some image search results, geometry nodes look pretty cool!
- blooalien 5y ago
  The shiny new geometry nodes feature in Blender is a modifier and can be used to perform some pretty nifty non-destructive trickery on basic primitives too. Not exactly like what that video shows, but still some really neat stuff can be done with it. Well worth playin' around with a bit. :)
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    2.93 has a Mesh Primitive node! Seems like what I wanted from 3ds should be directly doable with this, if not quite as simply! https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_nodes/mesh_primitives/index.html https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_...
    - blooalien 5y ago
      ^^^ And this right here is one reason I love sites like this one. Seems like I always get to learn somethin' new from folks. ;) Thank you for finding that! I have played with the geometry nodes some, but somehow I'd missed that particular detail. I suppose I should peek at the docs a little more often. :)

Blender also has modifiers and can do many things non destructively. (Been a while since I've used Max heavily though.)

by jtxt 5y ago

Blender also has modifiers and can do many things non destructively. (Been a while since I've used Max heavily though.)

Yes, but the geometry is not a modifier. The “how many rings/segments” configuration shows up during primitive creation, the geometry is generated, and that’s your geometry unless you want to delete it and make a new one. You can see what I’m talking about in 3ds here: https://youtu.be/Dp9Ozs3HjzY?t=120 https://youtu.be/Dp9Ozs3HjzY?t=120

jtxt 5y ago
Yes, I know what you mean now. (Perhaps they could add primitives to the modifiers for a similar workflow.) You can setup parametric primitives other ways though, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaHL7jRo6mM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaHL7jRo6mM Or putting a screw modifier on a curve... ( torus, sphere, any lathed object...) Or there's likely a number of different ways using geometry nodes. Granted it's not currently simple and intuitive though.
- wlesieutre 5y ago
  I need to try out blender's node systems. I've done a bit of texturing with Substance Designer and really liked the approach, just not been doing this kind of 3D work lately. Flipping through some image search results, geometry nodes look pretty cool!
blooalien 5y ago
The shiny new geometry nodes feature in Blender is a modifier and can be used to perform some pretty nifty non-destructive trickery on basic primitives too. Not exactly like what that video shows, but still some really neat stuff can be done with it. Well worth playin' around with a bit. :)
- wlesieutre 5y ago
  2.93 has a Mesh Primitive node! Seems like what I wanted from 3ds should be directly doable with this, if not quite as simply! https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_nodes/mesh_primitives/index.html https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_...
  - blooalien 5y ago
    ^^^ And this right here is one reason I love sites like this one. Seems like I always get to learn somethin' new from folks. ;) Thank you for finding that! I have played with the geometry nodes some, but somehow I'd missed that particular detail. I suppose I should peek at the docs a little more often. :)