“Modeling The Speakers” – creating separate meshes rather than adding speaker mesh to console mesh

[Bill Slobotski]

Version 4.2.3 LTS .  Hi!  Was there a technical reason for creating a new mesh for the speaker and another mesh for the holes, followed by joining them, followed by joining this into the console mesh?  Were these steps just to show how joining works?  Or perhaps these steps were necessary for mirror modifiers to function properly?  (I guess I can experiment on my own to find out 🙂 ) 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Bill,

My guess is, that it’s mostly because of the Mirror Modifier for the speakers, but you could also just keep it one Object (Add the speakers ad holes in Edit Mode, so that they’re part of the Console already), if you want. There are always more than one way of doing things.

[Omar Domenech]

I’d say there wasn’t a big reason, just that that was how it came out. One of the things you get the hang on in Blender is that there’s a ton of ways to do the same thing. Some ways are more efficient, some ways are the same, but your brain is not always in the most efficient way state all the time so you just do it with whatever occurs to you and then after a while you’re like hey, I should’ve have done it this other way. That happens all the time and there’s no really right or wrong way, you’re just trying to make it happen.

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