In the tut he actually smoothes the piece before the boolean, then its finished. I was merely pointing out that following the tut worked, although its sloppy.it works clocker but you havent had to smooth the mesh post operation...which is fine depending on the detail required etc. If you still needed to smooth the geo...yours would end up like srlakes. I will point out turning off 2 sided lighting has become standard for me thanks to ctbram....remember it!
As ctbram has pointed out, the edge loops need to be moved out of the way of the EDGES of the boolean. This creates horrid geo if you dont and causes lots of mesh editing. There are verts that need merging and some loops deleted entirely. Lke I said and ctbram will attest, booleans NEED to be thought out and applied properly, thats why they get a bad name. You cant just bang in a boolean operation and walk away from it.....similar to UV mapping...you cant just unfold something without some planning and work.
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I used boolean in what I like to call "THE CORRECT WAY" to achieve the hole. Also note the edge flow and the model image. This flow follows that of the actual model with a loop around the top where the circle is.
Also notice the support edges to tighten up the bevel around the outer edge of the piece and around the hole.
I have to run to meet someone for lunch so I did not have time to do a paint over but if you wish I can make you a video of the entire process to properly model this when I am back.
Here are the images....Note how much cleaner and less dense the topology is compared to the way the book suggests modeling it!
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I think that is a bad way to use booleans and is not something I would teach people that are new to modeling.
Using the books method think about the bevel I put on the hole. You'd have to create a cutter with that conic shape and you would still end up with a razor sharpe, cg looking, outer edge and trying to clean it up would be very time consuming.
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I'm on the chapter 7 part with the procedurals which is great because now it makes a lot more sense than it did in class.
Thanks again for all of your help. I think I clicked thank you on all your posts!
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