Daily Blender Secrets - Filling complex N-gon shapes like leaves

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[@pilooop667]

knife project/boolean -> select one of the 'loose' vertice with two connecting edges -> menu select, select similar, amount of connecting edges 'equal' -> hotkey x, dissolve vertices -> all ngons gone not for all cases, but also useful for cleanup thanks for your useful tips

[@tbfrustaci]

Another quick way. Select All. Select Loops > Select Boundary Loop. Select > More 1x or more. Face > Poke Faces. If u want to simplify even more. Select All. Mesh > Clean up > Decimate Geometry.

[@itsblkworld]

@@tbfrustaci or just download it for free there's a lot of leaves model out there. Still easier though

[@tbfrustaci]

@@itsblkworld keyword here is ngon

[@kareemelabkary7611]

My brain drifted while reading this (Edit: had to read it 4 times to get it, thanks for the tip)

[@vizdotlife]

For anyone trying this on a new version of Blender like 3.5 you might need to alter the technique to the following, which I found on a different thread. "Select main object, after that enter the “Edit Mode” and select extracted object with SHIFT key in the OUTLINER window and after that click “Mesh > Knife Project”.

[@goroseitto]

thumbs up for this! Its working in the 3.6.5

[@PoMkAc27]

Select main object, Go to Edit mode, With CTRL select plane, then Knife project. No outliner needed )

[@DieOrganisation13]

Thanks. Your Comment helped me in 4.1.1 ^^

[@jimmac]

Golden tip this one.

[@AbsurdShark]

Not even golden, its platinum.

[@TotallyNoAim]

​@@AbsurdSharknah its diamond

[@gils501]

Knife projecting that leaf to get a "grid" instead of a messy triangle or ngon is amazing thanks for that. I'm a failing artist about to have a job perhaps but I'll definitely pick your book up when I've got some scratch, I love your videos I learn so much.

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thank you! I'm sure you're not failing, unfortunately people with talent and good taste often feel that way. Only bad artists think they're great.

[@NoelSufrin]

Always great stuff! I did have a problem with the Knife Project not working properly though. When I would select the object, then the cutter object, and switching to Edit Mode, both objects would deselect themselves and return a Blender error when applying the Knife Project. After Googling, I found the solution online (this is a known bug). Hope this helps any other Windows 10 Blender users out there! Workaround: ✅First, select the object to be cut. ✅ Switch to edit mode ✅ Select an object from outliner (+) to use for projection ✅ Mesh -> Knife Project 😘👌🏼

[@BlenderSecrets]

This is an old video you're replying to - here's the new Knife workflow kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ-nq61-drx4frM

[@NoelSufrin]

@@BlenderSecrets Thanks for the link! 🤘🏼😎

[@elyasafaloni8925]

Never thought of using knife projection to accomplish such complex modeling task. Knife project always seemed to me like a random tool for text and stuff, great to see it's potential. Thumbs up, 10/10!

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thank you!

[@AbsurdShark]

Holy cow, this fun fact destroyed/uplifted my world, i never knew that even though i kinda suspected it, but was too lazy to actually test it. Thanks a lot, you just saved a lot of render-times for a ton of ppl.

[@mikerusby]

Good methods. I also use the triangulate modifier, seems to do a logical job of creating edges

[@CIRAXY]

I love this channel

[@elyasafaloni8925]

I believe it is possible to approach this problem by slightly solidifiing the Ngon (solidify modifier) in order to successfuly quad remesh it (with the modifier), and then weld the vertices back to get rid of the tickness (also with the modifier, weld). I use this technique to get a quad text, instead of a triangle mess, while keeping it non destructive.

[@BlenderSecrets]

That's neat! If you don't mind, I'll use that for today's tip. I'll give you credit of course.

[@elyasafaloni8925]

@@BlenderSecrets Of course, go for it, it would be my pleasure!

[@BlenderSecrets]

@@elyasafaloni8925 I just posted it! I wrote your name at the end. Thanks a lot, it's a fun tip.

[@elyasafaloni8925]

@@BlenderSecrets Nice! 😃

[@lordcoy461]

So many awesome tips in literal moments. Your shorts are great and provide great help. Thank you!

[@RaffoVFX]

literally didnt know alpha textures are slower to render compared to complete meshes👀 I will update my autumn assets, thanks for the tip❤

[@wowbaggert.5593]

The fun fact was kinda shocking. o.o thanks for the upload!

[@WaddleQwacker]

you can also press Ctrl X to "disolve" a selected vertex. It will preserve the underlying geometry with what remains.

[@isabel5066]

i learn so many cool things from this channel x)

[@theaterhobo]

Man, I wish I could save this to a playlist 😩

[@moonlightsonata8359]

Samee!

[@gradysain]

Love this channel! Short, sweet, always useful.

[@StraveTube]

How can these be so informative in 60 seconds?

[@potaterjim]

WOAH WHAT that auto merge tip deserves its own video

[@anthonyjdamico9975]

Such a photorealistic render. Thanks!

[@aviesto2417]

Nice model looks great I should try to make it in Maya.

[@violettracey]

Thank you!

[@samer.mghabghab]

Thank you, sir.

[@judyakkad8034]

I love this channel ❤

[@thanadolsaetae4917]

A very useful tip

[@FelinaCFM]

Omg thank you so much!! I learned more in a 1 minute video then a 10 one 😧

[@UKwarrior57]

Wooooow this is soooo cool and helpful you are a life saver man

[@amruzaky4939]

I know this is old video, but I got your book. It's pretty good.

[@minhazulferdous8600]

This what I've been looking for !!!

[@TheBrother34]

My mind blown and I found this now?! This is so useful to me! :0

[@SuperchargedW12]

So many things I didn't know!

[@1001panoramas]

Many thanks for this useful tip. Unfortunately, it doesn't work by selecting first the shape but selecting first the plane (with both 2.82 and 2.83 beta)

[@BlenderSecrets]

Ah, I messed up!

[@activemotionpictures]

Thank you!! I wasn't getting results on 2.83. Thanks for this tip.

[@tapikoBlends]

thanks

[@KN-ue8ne]

That was awesome thank you

[@styloo_]

did you try shift G on a vertex select similar amount adjacents face for cleaning up most of vertices

[@byganza8060]

very interesting. *Sculpts leaf*

[@oshit2874]

wow I only knew one type of filling, just F, thank you I am subscribing

[@BestMods168]

Excellent.

[@Arthr0]

What did you told the last fun fact, it blew my mind off 🤯. So why everyone is using alpha textures

[@4ae109]

same. i thought alpha textures were faster to render. i think most people use alpha textures because it takes a little bit of digging to find out that textures are often more performance intensive than rendering high polys

[@KageToHikari_CG]

​@@4ae109raster vs vector plus you need far more draw calls if a texture is (in any of its parts) is transparent

[@sebbosebbo9794]

instanced plane leaf even faster lichter to render.? stable as always..

[@guinness11]

Good one! Thank you!

[@CorbiniteVids]

Well that last bit preempted what I was gonna say

[@SharkVisionStudio]

good stuff

[@hi_its_jerry]

oh that's true! because with alpha textures you're actually rendering twice 🤔

[@Jon-me2lv]

Nice! Ty!

[@Fantasystories786]

How to make leaf procedure please.

[@Przemox96]

For newer Blender versions: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2qofoqPhMygp80

[@LeonardoAguiar3D]

what if you have an organic outer shape like the leaf in this example but within that shape you gave other organic shape boundaries that should be holes in the bigger outer organic shape? Using F to fill it with a big n-gon face fails. The organic shapes that should be holes get filled also.

[@LeonardoAguiar3D]

sorry, alt-F works

[@_khooman_chronicles_]

The knife project option is giving me some error.

[@paulvecchio4088]

Dawg you blue my fucking mind with the knife project

[@SemageNamalSurendra]

Bro it says. "No other selected have wire or boundary to use for projection" When Knief Projects 😪 Did I miss anything?

[@L2Konthetrack]

why wont my face fill in. ive tried doing exactly what you are doing in this video

[@jay.aliveatnightonly]

How can i save this video😬

[@njnjhjh8918]

KZbin, why can't we add shorts to a watch list, seriously?

[@AaronBradWilson]

I wish I could create something similar to the end within game engine, live. Instead I'm left with duplicating the mesh ;/

[@chaoticmateria]

woww

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

Yes, because your GPU is optimized to do 3D projections, not for dimensional linear interprelation...

[@exoticButters07]

Or just use loop cut

[@njnjhjh8918]

Alpha textures are expensive indeed

[@manonthedollar]

Knife project say whaaaaaat

[@hoplite6164]

how do i add a "short" to a playlist?

[@BlenderSecrets]

Oof, I don't know. It's really too bad KZbin turned so many of my videos into "shorts". But, you can still find the original ones on www.blendersecrets.org/

[@hoplite6164]

@@BlenderSecrets cool

[@MikuDanceAnima]

ooo black magic

[@galacticbroadcastingcompan8756]

😮

[@RedwoIf]

W

[@netyimeni169]

Damn

[@enderwigin7976]

grid fill.