COLLAB 2021 – The Stan Dalones – Standalone Accessories Team

[Andrea Weikert]

Do we have a final team name yet? (I voted, but not very partial to any name – I think both Shabby Chic and The Stan Dalones would be fine) @duerer 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Sorry for the intrusion, I’m spying on the opposition.

You should go with Stan Da’Lone, he was a famous CG artist back in the early 1900’s

[Jonathan Lampel]

@duerer In theory, no, but I’ve had n-gons cause warped UV unwraps before, so I would triangulate it or at least make enough connections so that there aren’t any concave shaped n-gons before texturing. 

[splat21]

@adrian2301, ahh yes, CG artists were indeed quite rare in the early 1900’s.  Thank you for sharing this fun fact.

[splat21]

  @amblender, as you may recall I had the same problem as you are describing.  For me, I believe the culprit is that I had proportional editing turned on when I lowered the crack verts into the wood.  Let’s explore this.  In the image below, I selected the highlighted vert and lowered it (G-Z) with proportional editing turned on.  This is an exaggeration, but notice that the two verts above it were also lowered.  

Select a face in another part of the board and press Shift-G (the Select Similar pop-up menu will be shown) and select Normal.    The faces around the top crack are not on the same Normal plane as the rest of the board’s original height.  

I don’t doubt there are many ways to solve this problem.  Here is one.  Select the outer loop of the crack plus the offending additional vert that is highlighted.  

Bring them to the same height by S-Z-0.  

Then G-Z and snap to a vert that represents the original height of the board.

To test your success, select a face and hit Shift-G and select Normal.

@jlampel is essentially recommending keeping the extra verts in a workflow like this to prevent warped UV unwraps.  Sounds like a best practice.

Hope this helps.

For my cart, I plan to review all my boards with this issue in mind.  Best practices sure are making me add more verts into this low poly project.  For future boards that I make with cracks, I will either turn off proportional editing or if I use it I will make sure the verts in the outer loop of the crack are not affected.

[Ingmar Franz]

Since we had a head-to-head race between “Shabby Chic” and “Stan Dalones” with 7 votes for each, I asked Kent @theluthier and he especially likes “The Stan Dalones”. So, this will be our team name 😀.

[Kent Trammell]

[Andrea Weikert]

hey, great job everybody ford the first week. I peeked at the WIP threads and put together a small team poster to celebrate this week, hope you like it.

[Ingmar Franz]

Now, the team name is “Kent-approved” 😀👍! 

The 23 team members of the “STAN DALONES”:

[updated April 15th with links to the WIP threads of each team member]

[updated April 27th for the new team members @clementk, @dostovel and @the3dbanana
working on the stone bridge and the foot bridge]

@amblender   WIP

@blendernan    WIP

@clementk WIP

@createtaiwan   WIP

@dostovel WIP

@duerer   WIP

@elubie   WIP

@hunter-x    WIP

@ironsoul   WIP

@isildu   WIP

@noonespecific    WIP

@phoenix4690    WIP

@richardyi   WIP

@samvolcano WIP 

@sheila5    WIP

@simonsez11    WIP

@splat21   WIP

@prabhjot   WIP 

@the3dbanana WIP

@vincav81    WIP

@williamatics   WIP

@wograebn   WIP

@yolopeno    WIP

[splat21]

 Stan Dalones – this is looking great!  Thanks @elubie, for putting this together.

[Ingmar Franz]

@adrian2301 and @splat21 I think, we have to rewrite the history books about CG and I’m sure, with all our combined creativity, we’ll make this quite impressive 😉😁!

[Matthew Ullrey]

Loving that barrel. 

[Matthew Ullrey]

@createtaiwan I should have known that was your suggestion. Ha ha

[Dave Hudson]

Extra XP points for coming up with the winning name? Just wondering…

[Vincent]

@elubie  Thank you, this is brilliant.

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