create soccer ball (8-shaped) ??

[Anonymous]

hello everyone,

i was trying to create this ball (http://imagehovel.com/view/d05/d05e4253121f0b032d124f4cbf1cc964.jpg)so i brought up the line tool and drew the 8- shaped piece first (http://imagehovel.com/view/38c/38c4c77ac65e854b92df6faaeed0ff04.gif) , then i connected vertices and applied surface modifier ,followed by Bend modifier using a sphere as a reference for the bend rate. after that i used the 8-shaped figure as a reference(http://imagehovel.com/view/0e8/0e885523cb79120ef9efe51304f47834.gif) ,to create the remaining 3-edged piece of the ball
(http://imagehovel.com/view/276/27628642ad3b61f249daca5dd7bb819d.gif) , then linked the vertices and applied surface modifier as
well.spherified all, converted to edit poly , extrude n finally mesh smoothed .(http://imagehovel.com/view/279/279545fa9c3e6c8e2f4bd26cfbb9a35b.jpg)

Noww , the results werent quite satisfying as the pic shows .
it is full of 'dents' , and also there is a flat surface in the middle of the 3-edged piece?not to mention being not perfectly rounded
(http://imagehovel.com/view/d8a/d8a7ad15aff5955e4dd84900a0a9bd04.gif) ..why did this happen ? is there a better way to it ??

the scene has been attached (3ds max 9)

thanks in advance.....

8520_rRT9bjnVyF5m8bBdHYuZ.zip

[Anonymous]

you mean i should have arranged those parts(with text and logo) opposite each other on the same axis? if that is the case ,then you are right, i kinda randomly crammed those peanuts , sry for that lol

[Anonymous]

Correction: I went through different models and they're not all the same. So yours might be ok.

Here. Just for fun.

And some of the textures I've found around: click me

[Anonymous]

I've mapped the regular ball.
Lol, even the real ones do not have paintings that fit that well. It looks fake!

[Anonymous]

downloadin the textures now..it is like you read my mind..i wanted to ask how to get textures for the ball but u got me for it..thanks again..

and about that regular ball..lol yea it looks fake..y is that??

[Anonymous]

Now that you've gotten me sidetracked...

[Anonymous]

...aaaand a last one!

[Anonymous]

lool great work Caprier..couple of things i wanna say if it is not too much:
1-how did you make the baseball ball?(know the vollyball one from a tutorial on the net lol)
2-guess we still got the basketball ball that u didnt create.. lol

[Anonymous]

What did you just say?

I'll put a few screenshots together for the baseball ball.

[Anonymous]

The baseball ball.

Start with a cube. Add a meshsmooth, set iterations to 0, select the edges as shown (pic1), set their crease to 1 and iterations back to 1 and add an edit poly (pic 2).
Select the four polys and scale them down to 50% along the Z axis (pic 3). Select the two edges in the middle and scale them to 50% too (pic 4). Repeat the process for the other side but scale along a horizontal axis this time.
Spherify + meshsmooth (2 iterations) + spherify (pic 5).
Add an edit poly. Select the edges that separate the two parts of the ball (pic 6) and hit split. Your ball should now be made of the two correctly shaped elements (pic 7).
Select the two borders, make a selection set and shift-scale them down to about 95%. Retrieve you selection set, scale them up to about 105% (to make the lips bulge a little) and chamfer them about half the width of the new polys (pic 8).
Add a final meshsmooth (1 or 2 iterations) and a last spherify to control the depth of the seam, et voilà (pic 9).

(With the last meshsmooth, you better select all the edges and force the crease value to 0, as it is likely to get it from a previous meshsmooth and produce some weird artifacts here and there).

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Dario.
I don't remember the exact value for the chamfer (I had it somewhere) but it was pretty close to 35% of the radius. If there's some maths geek around... 🙂

I know im late but...

its not that hard.

[Anonymous]

LOL. In fact, it's something like 35.049.

[Anonymous]

tablets are too much fun dont u think?

[Anonymous]

just wondering...are there any rules or basics to figure out the root shape of a certain model..i mean i would have never though that baseball ball(spherical object) can be created from just a simple cube..are there any tutorials that would teach me how to go around creating difficult models by starting from their basic shape?

[Anonymous]

I don't know if there is a technique but what works for me - and probably for most modelers - is to start with the final result in mind and try to figure what a very low poly version of it would look like.

9184_60ysTuQk4kvS9u3LE1tv.zip

[Anonymous]

thanks carpier...the download though didnt complete downloading..using IE , it reaches about half way n exits..same result wen using Internet Download Manager..can you post it somewhere else please?

[Anonymous]

Never mind the video, it's just a morph between the ball and a cube.
Sorry I forgot you were on dial up.

[Anonymous]

alright.thanks for the hint caprier..

[Anonymous]

Hello again ,

i am trying to correctly apply this texture(pic1) to the peanut ball but i couldnt find a way to go around it. i tried to use a uvw map but
was unable to get the line in the middle right (pic2).

can anyone help?

[Anonymous]

You can assign three different material IDs to the top, bottom and central parts and map them differently: planar for top and bottom, cylindrical for central (don't split the mesh as I did below, it's just to show the parts).
As you have a solid color between these parts, there shouldn't be any seam problem.

Either do it the old fashion way (using Poly Select + UVW Map combos) or, better, inside one single Unwrap UVW.

[Anonymous]

it is working..thanks Carpier .. though i hoped i couldnt do a "clean" selection of parts as the ones in your pic .. ?geting the parts are neatly sliced i mean ..?!