Gothic tracery tutorial - part 1 (modeling) 

Thanks, Bryan! I am vary happy to hear you think so! I haven't posted any tutorials in a very long time. It is sort of time for gathering knowledge and experience, once it is over - I will share it in new tutorials! See you then!

You are welcome! And vice versa: Your comment made me happy!

I am happy I could help you then!

Thank you, Magda! I definitely will! For the vaulted ceilings you also could use curves as guides for the ribs and as for the brick fill - best to create a simple arch, extrude it, exit edit mode then copy the object and rotate 90 degrees. After that use Boolean modifier with "union" to connect them. Its then a matter of removing faces that you don't need. Cheers

Thanks! Me too! ;)

:) I am very happy to hear that, Francisco!

:) Have a great modelling!

Thanks! I don't use any social media apart from RU-vid and Discord... I also don't post videos very often :)

@@conradjustinart you such a great instructor and those tutorials don't exist elsewhere even if you don't publish videos so often they're just great , I admire your work

Here: :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U26W92UqbIo.html

The texture doesn't show up in 3d view? Then press 'z' and choose the "look dev" which will preview the material. Hopefully it helped! It can also be chosen from the top right corner in the 3d viewport - it is a ball with checker texture on it

Thank you! I really don't know how to respond to that! Good magic spell is worth sharing I guess! at some point I will probably write a book on magic :)

No, no identical. UE 5 has a different rendering engine then Blender. But it can look very similar! Many factors determine how the model with a PBR texture set will look - The most important is lighting. If you lit up the model in the same way in Blender as in Ray traced game engine - the results should be almost identical.

@@conradjustinart Thank you so much for the answer :). Awesome videos keep making them !.

In the case of blending shapes - It is very specific - for each problem there is going to be a different solution. From the top of my head I would suggest using "Bisect" and "Knife" tools to adjust topology and "Bridge Edge Loops" to connect edges. Merging can also be done using "Boolean" modifier - but it requites some topology cleanup later on. Without concrete example I can't give straight solutions! I will gladly post other tutorials on my channel but not at the moment.

@@conradjustinart Here's an example I attempted yesterday: Reference Image: ibb.co/RBF2Zcx My attempt: ibb.co/30XJD8Q As you can see, the tracery lines join and split very frequently. The curve-based approach unfortunately will not work here (I tried it). I did it by manually placing vertices along the protruding elements (the lines marked as sharp in my second image) and then doing the same for the "inner" lines which are further in the back, then connecting them up and filling in the faces. It works, but it's a lot of effort, and in many places the geometry turned out... less than ideal. Which is why I'm looking for a way to do this a bit more efficiently.

@@AlanDarkworld Sorry for very late response Alan. This is good! Improve the geometry in the center - the little niche is not flat like the one you modeled. All concave parts could use some refining - so that shading doesn't look weird. Add more sharp edges - where the apexes are. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! You can be fast too - for example rebind your hotkeys so you can press them faster with one hand.

@@conradjustinart these old fingers aren't as quick as they use to be ;)

In a top view I added a few circles as guides, then added a bezier curve which follows those guides. Once half of the section was made I converted the bezier curve into a mesh (object/convert to/mesh) and used the Mirror modifier to make it symmetrical. Today I would do it differently ( I would just extrude a single vertex along the outline of the cross-section, without using bezier curve - sort of 'by hand'). Hope this helps!

@@conradjustinart yeah i did that but, mine didnt look as good as your's did, do you have a website that has those trims i could download it ?

@@Raku235 Don't give up! Practice and your hard work will pay off!

Yes, and also you can just drag and drop the image into empty space in the 3d viewport!