selective subpatch? (LW 7.5b)

[Bidigam]

Please consider the picture below

http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/7084/subpatch3hi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


What I want to do is to have it all subpatched, but I want to mantain the long stripes sharp (while having the top of them subpatched also).

So to my question how can I subpatch a shape and mantain some sharp details?

Thanks

[IZZE]

Bandsaw the edges

[Bidigam]

How? I am noobah using LW :hey:

[THREEL]

Please consider the picture below

http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/7084/subpatch3hi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


What I want to do is to have it all subpatched, but I want to mantain the long stripes sharp (while having the top of them subpatched also).

So to my question how can I subpatch a shape and mantain some sharp details?

Thanks

Hey there Bidigam,

Add your object to your next reply and I'll show you a couple of different ways of getting what you want using Sub-patch weights or Bandsaw Pro.:)

THREEL (AL)

[Bidigam]

Hey thanks :thumbsup:

here it goes

[Bidigam]

So....where you able to fix?

[Bidigam]

LOL to steal that mesh was the lamest thing I've ever seen, OMG one must be really at the bottom to do so...

[THREEL]

LOL to steal that mesh was the lamest thing I've ever seen, OMG one must be really at the bottom to do so...

Hey there Bidigam!

Please, don't accuse me of anything like that, or call me names, when you don't even know me. In all honesty, I completely forgot all about this thread. There would be absolutely no reason for me to steal your object, when I have no idea what it's even supposed to be. I'm in the middle of 4 different projects right now, and I plum forgot. Also, I've been starting other threads on how to fix my own LW problems, and answering others to try to help them with theirs. Finally, I do not see any attachments of this LWO file in the posts you sent. So, I cannot do anything with a file I do not have.

I really do want to help you with your problem, if I can, and I do think I can, but you have to send an attachment of this LWO file so I can take a crack at showing you what I think should be done to it.

Once you send your next post, with attachment included, please, drop me (THREEL) a private message, and that will alert me that you sent a new post with attachment.

Thanks! THREEL, but you can call me AL.:D

[Emfrobia]

Check out this page at the LW demo video gallery.
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/videos.php

Click on the one labled "Edge Weighting", which is located directly below the big words "Features". After watching this, select all of the points/edges, your choice, along where you want hard edges. Hope this helped,
~Emfrobia