(please excuse my bad grammar )
Hello, I would like to start off with when it comes to blender I am a noob. Ive used tools like milkshape and 3dmax but I no longer have access to those programs and since I am broke (college really wiped out my bank) I started playing with blender. Ive been doing several projects by going off of guides and tuts I find on the web and I’ve sort of gotten used to the UI on blender.
You know I’ll just get to my problem
(first coin:
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Ive been trying to make a coin from a sketch I did in photoshop
(the the dots loosely represent where I want to put vertices and colors are the different levels i plan to extrude ie all within red with be extruded a bit wile the other colors are just the lines )
now before you all tell me to just unwrap a side of circle or cylinder and map it to the sketch thats not what I’m wanting to do(I’ve already done it on an old project lol)
No what I am trying to do is make it look somewhat like a real coin, you know with the face thats (whats the word…? all hmm beveled, bumpy, engraved…ill use engraved) engraved and stuff, like an American Penny
I’m not going to make it as detailed but I thought if I can make one I can use it as an opening thing for some type of video (thinking maybe the coin slowly falling with the cam zoomed in so you can see the detail)
So I’m running blender 2.5
here is where im at:
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( I got this far by adding a circle, filling, subdividing, then deleted the center DOT because moving the other dots made the lines cross each other, almost like on the top of the pic. I then moved the vertices into position and where I needed more I clicked on the line, subdivided and moved into place)
Its been a wile and I cant remember if it was 3dmax or maybe even gmax but one of them I was able to just add vertices to a plane fallowing the reference image and I think the lines where added automatically but what ever I try in blender it doesnt seem to work well. I added my plane and when I subdivide and move the vertices sometimes the lines will cross each other and a gray area appears.
Now Ive found on this site how to add vertices by ctrl+lftclick but those that are added don’t seem to be a part of the object
Idk I could be over thinking this and making it more difficult then need be but cant find anything useful (maybe I’m searching for the wrong things)
Anyway, if anyone can make sense of my babble and knows what I should do and can point me in the wright direction I would be most appreciative
~SFly
