Modelling a die

[laughingnome]

quickie image

stu

[E-Z]

Originally Posted by laughingnome

ok you dont need to lock anything to copy on support and you are eyeballing the clones E-Z not very precise

heres how i would create the die.
click and drag the cube into the workspace,set tess to 2 in the properties box and click in the workspace to validate.
click and drag the sphere into the workspace, just drag it anywhere and scale using the universal manipulator.
select copy on support and click on the cube and hit validate.
delete the original sphere.

ungroup the new group in the scene tree and delete all unwanted spheres.
regroup them by hiding the cube and selecting all.
unhide and boolean the cube.
then chamfer.
it sounds like more work than it is

stu

Got it Here is a Video of it> http://www.ezbrush.mediabakers.com/dice/dice.html

[RedSquare]

[mayito7777]

This is my dice/die

[jbshorty]

How did everybody overlook the 2nd most important characteristic of dice? without "dice corners" the dice wouldn't roll! There is a very easy way to fake a dice corner (as this screenshot). It's not as nice as LoneGunman's model but is much faster and would be fine for distant shots:

1. select the 8 corner vertices of the box
2. push them in slightly with the stretch tool (using the "normal" option)
3. then "grow" the selection once, so you have 4 verts selected at each corner.
4. Push in a little bit more with Stretch tool.

shorty

[mayito7777]

A quick test render in carrara

[mayito7777]

Another render in Carrara

[mayito7777]

Another way of getting the dices to look less square is by chamfering the box before the boolean operation.

[bwtr]

IN THEORY! the sum of of the removal of "weight" --hole size removal quantity total--for each of the sides should be equal!

Now lets see THAT end result!

[E-Z]

oh cool
here is mine.

one made in Hexagon on the left and the other made in zbrush on the right

[bwtr]

Both great E-Z, The Zbrush one solves the weight distribution problem probably.

[laughingnome]

yep thats pretty much the way i did it E-Z nice video.

nice renders by everyone

stu

[Tassilo]

Originally Posted by jbshorty

How did everybody overlook the 2nd most important characteristic of dice? without "dice corners" the dice wouldn't roll! There is a very easy way to fake a dice corner (as this screenshot).

Thanks, jbshorty! This is exactly the information I've been looking for and been my main problem.

[jbshorty]

Originally Posted by Tassilo

Thanks, jbshorty! This is exactly the information I've been looking for and been my main problem.

Why not fake the whole thing? It's unnecessary to model geometry for the cutouts. It can be 100% faked with a displacement map (it's much more flexible than using geometry too). Just apply "box" UV's to your model, paint a quick map in Photoshop (medium grey background with black dots that blend to medium grey at their edges), apply in displacement channel for render. Here's a quick render of 100% "fake" dice...

shorty

[mayito7777]

I think that we need to sent you to the nutty corner...

[jbshorty]

it seems i will not be alone. Don't you get tired from banging your head on your desk all the time?

[are]

and one from me...
carrara render and a screen grab from hex before any smoothing was applied. Hex file in zip if anyone wants it.

[L33tace]

here's a tut (for 3ds Max), where boolean is used.
of note in the first part of the tut

A few rules to remember about Dice:

1 & 6, 2 & 5, and 3 & 4 are always on opposite sides.

1,2, and 3 always touch the same corner. The same with 4, 5, and 6.

[jbshorty]

OK. I was interestred myself to learn how to make real dice corners. So here is a quick explanation.

shorty

[laughingnome]

nice work are, chamfer points for the corners and a tess 4 cube and select edges and extract along ?

stu