In between back and forth to hospital, luckily I still managed to get my stuff done. And like the other complicated situation, I totally forgot how to solve a simple problem. This time, it is Boolean operation.
Perhaps you already knew the fact that most of 3D artists will always avoid using boolean. The result is kind of ugly topology and sometimes also affecting the stability (try to boolean a large object, add some stacks and leave it as it is as you work with your scene, you'll know what I mean). But there were times when boolean could help speed up some process. I consider merging two cylinders as this specific situation.
Here is my base model. Its simply just a small cylinder attached to a bigger cylinder. I boolean them and start fixing the edges and then add symmetry modifier:
What happen when when I added a subdivision modifier? here's the screenshot:
Okay, at this point the bell rang in my head. I remember i had solution for fixing automatic edge crease value assigned by boolean operation (did I mention boolean? I didnt even remember i was using boolean when working with this model. In fact, I previously did checked edge crease and all my edges were uniformly at 0 value). I simply re-collapsed my object to editable mesh and re-collapsed it again to editable poly, and tadaaaa, the clip disappeared:
And now, another interesting fact i found two days ago: although some folks mention the advantage of using turbosmooth modifier is less memory consumption, it actually almost double the face counts than meshmooth (both use level 1 with isoline display off). You can read total faces using turbosmooth and meshsmooth compared on exactly the same object above. And what puzzles me even more, 1 on 1 comparison (I snap them into single position), all vertices exactly have the same position on both modifiers, ie: there is no geometry difference between object using turbosmooth and meshsmooth. Only face counts were different. How is that even possible? I dont know. But, (yea, there's always but), this face counts resort to meshsmooth face counts when the geometry collapsed into single mesh. You'll see significant face counts decrease after you collapse objects with turbosmooth modifier.
And as a thank you for your time reading this post, here's the (previously) horrible model I showed you above:
Download: 3dsMax9, Vray. Mediafire
Good news is, not confirmed yet though, my wife will likely get back home this noon. Yay!. Its breaking my heart to see my 3 years old cried to sleep each night looking for his mom.
