Controlling Geometry on Round Surfaces with 3ds Max 

I don't get it why people dislike a video. 15 years ago there were not even a single video about modeling techniques and we would stay in front of the pc for hours to fix meshes and wonder what's the easy way to do things. Yet nowadays people will find it easier to just go on RU-vid and search(power of technology). Give this guy some props for taking his time in making a video for extreme beginners. I had trouble with polymodeling like everyone else. If there are easier methods into doing what he has done, why not make a video, put on RU-vid and be done with it rather then disliking a video because is not for your liking. I wish I could had these kind of videos when I started.

Great stuff there. Two tips for you and other people, dont know if it has been said in comments : - Function "set flow" (can be a keyboard shortcut) will move your edges or vertices in the "flow" of your model. It's hard to explain in english as it's not my mother language, but can be very usefull to smooth your object. - 10:56 : At multiple occasions in this video you could have used the function "Select similar" in the graphite modeling toolbar (can be set as a shortcut too). In this case you pick the two vertices and do "select similar", it would have selected the 3x2 other vertices. Then "collapse" (also as a shortcut on my setup). Basically i would have selected the two vertices then alt+S (my select similar shortcut) and ctrl+D (my collapse shortcut). Done.

Instead of directly extruding inward just do an inset then extrude, you will get good result

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I am learning the logic of modelling through you 😊

Thank you for this quick and useful tutorial!

There is a much much easier and efficient way of doing this. After extruding the regularised loop, go back to edge select > it will retain the circular edge selection > press extrude > reset the height to 0 and adjust the width to get your desired edge width. Now you just gave to collapse the verts that are on the corners that have small triangles and you get a perfect edge that will work with sub-D. =).

Excellent teacher you are! Thank you

when you apply the script Regularize you need to make an insert to the polygons that's all

Thanks for this video... I learned a lot and I'm applying it on my project.

this video has been of great help to me, God bless you Sir

this was so useful for me,thank you

Very understandable tutorials

Thank you very much 🌷

Thanks for this useful tutorial...

Great video. I am trying to do something similar on a cylinder shaped object. Got any tips on how to control the geometry on a cylinder after doing the Regularize and extrude bits.

Thank you !

Great tutorial

thank you so much for the clear instructions!

this was so useful for me,thank you sir.

Very helpful video

Awesome! Thank you so much.

Nice

Why you don't using insert from the beginning?

Very usefull. Thank you

awsome job, thank you.

Thanks for the tips! Thumbs up!

wooww dude.this could save everyone some time.Great vid

U great man

awesome. thanks

This Tutorial is a "Must See"

I think this manual method is a bit outdated now, as in newest versions of Max(or with Marius Silaghi plugin in older versions) you can just use quad chamfer on those edges and it works perfectly geometry wise. But for me most annoying thing about adding details on curved surfaces is that it messes up UV's. Fixing geometry is not a big deal, but if you need to apply repetitive texture to it (like a checker), here comes the pain... As turbosmooth will make it wobbly and ugly around that inserted detail in 90% of cases. And unwrapping smoothed (HP) models in Max is a nightmare.

Thanks A Lot To You For This.

Thanks

You rock men !

nice very useful tips thank u so much

How to add regularise in right click

for me sometimes i use chanfer + swift loop ctl+shift

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Nice tutorial, its helpful. :D

Hi Dennis. maybe some video with animations and effects? It would be great to see this on your channel. :)

Thank you sir. I would like to see more of your videos!

hi for this case before extruding i do always inset

I can’t even find the “edit poly” button 😭 can someone tell me how to find it pls?

Hi, thanks for the helpful video. Where can I download that script?

regularize ???? dont exist

What is the connect shortcut you are using?

hmm this method isn't that good, Why not just use chamfer or bevel depend on the software that people use? just select the edge of the circle and chamfer it, why all this complication when u can do it in 3 sec? by doing what u did, u destroyed the edges flow around the new circle. and u introduced another artifact on the rendering.

this is the easiest thing to do with an extruded edges

you did all that to use less iterations, then you ended up using 3, which is wayyy too much

Finally know. Lol

switch to blender, honestly i have been using 3ds max for more than a decade, now tried blender 2.8 , its way better then 3ds max.