[Hex 1.0-1.2] Modelling a Gift

[Thomas]

Modeling a Gift with Hexagon

In this tutorial, you will see how you can model a Gift with Hexagon. This tutorial is an easy one and you will be able to build your model in 10-20 minutes.

Another tutorial, with Carrara, will show you how to create a complete illustration with the help of the Gift created in this tutorial.

[Thomas]

Create a Cube. 1: Select a face 2: Pick the Boundary selection tool 3: An edge loop is created 4: Copy 5: Paste 6: A square of the same size as the cube is created.

1: Select all edges (CTRL/Command + A) 2: Create a small bevel 3: The result.

1: Move the curve 2: Hide the cube 3: With CTRL/Command key pressed, move your manipulator to extract a ring of polygons

1: Pick an edge and select the Ring selection tool 2: Create a small Bevel of the current selection 3: Apply a Thickness 4: Pick an edge and select the Ring selection tool 5: Loop selection tool 6: Create a small Bevel of the current selection 7: The result

Unhide the Cube and select the previous object 1: Pick the Snap tool and click with Shift key pressed on the center of the selected object (green dot) 2: With Shift key still pressed, pick the center of the cube 3: Copy and paste the current object to create a copy, do a 90° rotation (Rotate with Shift key pressed)

Do a small scale on the vertical axis to avoid the overlap of the two rings (spike of the arrow)

1: With the Curve tool, create a kind of open knot, like a flat heart drawing 2: Press down CTRL/Command key 3: Move forward to generate a band of polygons

Clone the previous object in the edit menu

1: Select the 4 vertices of the strip (only one, not both) 2: Activate the soft selection 3: Pick the scale tool along the axis along the strip 4: Scale until your strip creates a kind of star. The clone generate the same result on the other strip automatically 5: Apply a thickness

1: Pick an edge and select the Ring selection tool 2: Loop selection tool 3: Create a small Bevel on the current selection 4: The result

Put the knot on the top of the previous strip and box.

1: Create a grid (7x2) 2: Pick a set of two contrary vertices and do a constraint scale along the axis 3: Move some vertices to raise the band

1: Apply a thickness and do a loop select of the contour of the object 2: Select the corner edges 3: Create a small Bevel of the current selection

Add your band to the previous modeled object. You can preview it with applying a level 3 smoothing (Page Up key three times.)

Your model is now finished. You can export it to any other 3D software to generate the render. Feel free to follow the other tutorial, with Carrara and this gift!

[Thomas]

Go to the Carrara tutorial which use this gift model in Hexagon !

[behzad]

Thomas are you amazing or what?

[are]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[Corndog]

Hey thanks for the tute...
Got 5 pro and Hex for xmas and this was my first tute..
My gifts are sunken and floating... I now know why this happened but I like the look.
My first model on Carrara/Hex

[Thomas]

Your hotpoint for your gifts may not on the bottom of them, that's why you have this problem. Edit the original gifts hotpoint and you will be able to put them on the floor

[Corndog]

hot spot... I remember that step.....
now I know what that was for

ty

[Swampfoot]

Thomas, Thank you for creating the "Modeling a Gift with Hexagon". The tutorial is really helping me learn Hexagon.

However, I'm having some trouble and I was wondering if you can help me. When you're creating the ribbon for the gift, you have to create the knot with the Curve tool and then hold the CTRL button and "move forward to generate a band of polygons". I just don't understand what you meant when you wrote "move forward to generate a band of polygons" part in the tutorial.

I will appreciate any help that you can give me.

[Thomas]

well... take another exemple :
1- create a circle and validate to exit the tool
2- pick the move or universal manipulator
3- keep CTRL key (or Command on Mac) and move your cirlce like that
>> as result, you should see the original circle stay on it original position and a kind of extrusion appears. This is what is call "edge modeling", a kind of extrusion from a set of edges.
You can also create one polygon (with the polygon tool), select one edge, and repeat step 3 above, you should see a polygon appears while you move your selection with the CTRL key pressed.
I hope it will help !

[Swampfoot]

Thank you, Thomas for explaining to me how to generate a band of polygons from the flat heart drawing. It really helped me learn the tutorial. I'm very sorry for the late response but your instruction was greatly appreciated.

[cdansby]

I am already stuck at step 2. I usually learn computer programs quickly, so I am feeling very frustrated (and embarassed).

Step 2 says to select the "Boundary" tool. It even has a picture of the icon. I can't find it anywhere. I looked for it in the manual and found this description with a picture of the same icon as in the tutorial, "In the Selection Menu, or in the Contextual menu, then through the advanced selection submenu, select Boundary." I do not have any submenus in my selection menu.

Is this a version issue (I have 2.1 for PC), or a French toCynthia English translation issue, or am I completely misunderstanding something? It seems like a simple enough tutorial. I can't believe that I can't get it.

Thanks.

[ab]

Thomas:
i see this model in this page, a pub for subdo :
http://www.vb2s.com/newsletter_subdo...ialca2.html#fr
no name of Thomas (or "god") or Hexagon are quote.
Do you know subdo ? this is a clone of acrobat 3d, the really good 3D viewer.

[ab]

sometime a have this problem with firefox: i can't see attached files.
somebody know why ?

[Thomas]

ab: the images are hosted on eovia3d.net, not polyloop. I don't understand why you don't have them.
I e-mail vb2s...

[michael kukuk]

Thank you for working so hard on the turtorial...very informative.

[soulflow]

how can you draw a symetrical heart shape for the bow? is there a way i can draw half of it and the comp draws the other half at the same time?

[Nester751]

Thank you very much for this tutorial! It was very helpful!

[l3la]

Thank you for your work on this tutorial. The images seem to be missing though. I cannot see them and if I follow the link I get:

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[mayito7777]

I don't see any image