Beginner's Question to Understanding Dense Meshes / Topology

[Richard_Culver]

Your evaluation is correct. And I see at least 2x more extra polys for a model like this.

I cover this in my tutorial.

https://docs.lightwave3d.com/lw2019/appendices/user-created-tutorials/fundamentals-of-subpatch-modeling

Techniques applied here:.

Finished Hard Surface Subsurf Models in 2.49b

As it was, I was only commissioned to model these some 10 years ago. These are done. Modeled in Blender 2.49b They were done to be rendered in wireframe. These particular renders were done later in Maya. [Crank1] [Crank3] [Crank4] [Heli1] [Heli2] [Heli3] [Jet1] [Jet2] [Rolls1] [Rolls2] [Rolls3] [Rolls4] [Crank2]

Hard Surface Vacuume in 2.49b

This subsurf model was done about 10 years ago in Blender 2.49b [VacButtons] [VacFull] [VacHandleFull] [VacHandleLow] [VacHandleMid] [VacHandleSidel] [VacHighSide] [VacLowFront][VacMid] [VacUnderside] [VacLowBack]