Reply To: Chris’s Polybook
Thanks Martin! That clears a ton up. Would also pretty directly explain those hexagons. I guess more via coincidence then huh?
Makes me wonder how golf balls got that sort of surface in the first place… I guess I have a rabbit hole to dig into later.
But at any rate, let’s keep going!
06/08/2026 – Hard Drive
Ho. Lee. Crap. This was a tough one.
I actually tried it myself at first. Twice. I managed to get the shell and the inner body as their own separate parts. I started figuring out the solidify modifier as a way to solve for the shell and I was trying to use some booleans for the annoying edge, and the edge underneath. (And it was working! Sorta!)
The problem came in once I tried the numerous hole booleans.
I think my issue was because I had set up the inner body based on the outer shell, I created some ngons since I extruded that outer face. I wanted to avoid having to precisely match them up for some reason so I paid for it later. Turns out it was significantly easier to just… model them separately and just match it up. Who woulda thunk! The tl;dr is that the booleans wouldn’t boolean. Though even in the actual lesson he wasn’t kidding when he said it was expensive. My poor laptop was struggling a bit.
I also wish I’d considered beveling the internal edge before seeing it like Jonathan did. But that’s also in the mental vault now!
At any rate, after doing that, the brain is fried. I have some smaller ideas I want to tackle here and there since this one was pretty huge, but otherwise we’re going to keep on moving!