How to Add DOOR AND WINDOW Openings in Blender!

In this video, learn how to quickly add door and window openings that move with your doors and windows in Blender!
FULL DOOR AND WINDOW OPENING TUTORIAL
• How to Cut Holes for D...

[@TheCGEssentials]

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[@pranshavgaming5130]

❤

[@chrisjansen1943]

I really like the short videos. I like the full tutorials too, but the short ones seem to hit the right spot

[@TheCGEssentials]

Awesome - glad you're liking them!

[@carlsonbench1827]

You must mention that this makes a mess of the topology. Not everything has to be game ready but ngons are evil.

[@khushmm3990]

I just Ctrl t once the model is complete. If the ngons do mess up something even after triangulation it shouldn't take a lot of time.

[@carlsonbench1827]

@@khushmm3990 ngons are the devil

[@AbyssalSoda]

Ngons are actually fine in games and concept models, they are terrible in Animation and VFX.

[@OKgamedev]

@@AbyssalSodanot necessarily, ngons can easily cause shading issues when triangulated for game engines.

[@insaineven6896]

I usually make the individual pieces myself, (door, ceiling, floor, wall, etc) then I use the pieces as measurements and reference for the others, to give everything a cohesive style and scale. It’s super easy to import between projects, and saves you a lot of time guessing!

[@huntresskira]

i am shocked, this is a revelation for me. THANK YOU!

[@garretgirouard]

You have no idea how much this helped

[@shreevardhankaushikcic3448]

God!this is so fuckinnnnn cool 😭♥️, been looking for this since ages

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@slyoperator7723]

Just a begginner but wouldn't that mess up the topology of the overall mesh? That boolean would probably make ngones on the affected faces, right?

[@VJK102]

Newer Blender versions have a improved boolean system that doesn't mess the topology that much.

[@adiiiiii1]

If you want clean geometry (quads) , booleans are not the way to go. But you can do retopology with something like Quad Remesher or manually fix it up. For walls I personally prefer loop cuts and quad polygons. If you do Bridge connect two polygons on the oposite sides of the wall, it will actually create a hole in the wall, with thin sides filled in.

[@Rossilaz58]

Yes.

[@TheCGEssentials]

In my opinion, I'm not sure that "mess up" is the right way to describe it. It does cause non-quad topology, but since I'm not deforming or subdividing the mesh, I don't think it really matters. People get really fired up about this so I'm sure someone will be along to disagree, but in flat, simple shapes like this I'm not seeing any issues. Now if you have to do it in a curved wall or surface? Different story

[@slickricky769]

Good rule of thumb, try not to make ngons unless you know why?... if you're working on a personal project, who cares as long as the lighting doesn't look bad but if its a porfolio piece, make quads, or else whoever looks at your work would just think you don't know topology and won't hire you

[@kabilananbazhagan8403]

Keep doing shorts! it helps me to check on daily and work on something quickly for practice!

[@shardaojha7558]

This is really help full in creating the room . Thank you for video

[@vee5247]

Thanks!!!!!!

[@r1pst3r]

I've been applying the modifier the whole time and getting wacky topology to unwrap later 😭

[@Blue_snapdragons]

If you want clean topology, don’t use booleans. Just use loop cuts like normal.

[@slickricky769]

Boolean only work in blender, if you need to take it to a separate program, you'd have a lot of issues you'd have to clean up... I work in games and if you want to work in games just use loop cuts and learn good topology.... these "hacks" usually end up being a headache down the line ....

[@gakidomo9561]

Oh, same process as Maya! How nice!

[@ananthuskumar7253]

The best for a reason❤

[@Shadow_Architect]

This is really helpful, thanks my guy

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@BlenderInferno]

Brilliant content as always man

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@paradoxvuim8562]

Ty for sharing. Very useful

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paradoxvuim8562]

@@TheCGEssentials

[@leothecrafter4808]

Also theres an addon called bool tools where you just select the two or more objects and with a shortcut get a menu to apply boolean modifiers. It also makes the brush object into a box visibility automatically.

[@3dyem]

Great job 👍🏻

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@slowlazyfox6676]

Very helpful

[@blackcap_gamer]

Me trying to do this manually for hours then finding this pure gold

[@idontknowanygoodnames1498]

For people worried about crazy topology, remember limited dissolve is you friend and can clean up even complicated meshes

[@Blue_snapdragons]

Tbh tho at that point you may as well just use loop cuts since you’ll be wanting to clean stuff up into quads anyway.

[@Kirby7601]

Omg thanks! I was trying to do this earlier today

[@thebestcommenter22]

THANK YOU BRO

[@vikentijslauruts2153]

thanks for the video :) what about when for example i would need to export the fbx into lets say unreal or twinmotion its still showing the box and not the cut hole thing what would you recommend?

[@EGP-Hub]

Booleans are always useful, but you'd still end up with the same (or maybe worse topology) extra geometry if the modifier needed to be applied

[@TheCGEssentials]

It's an interesting discussion - for ArchViz, for example (which is really my focus), what would you say the main issue is that this is going to create?

[@EGP-Hub]

@@TheCGEssentials I would expect none if the booleans don't need to be applied! And I do use them too, but I suppose if you needed to provide the model for whatever reason as just geometry, you'd need to apply the booleans and then go and tidy up the geometry and N-Gons and such? It's probably not an issue that would come up often though!

[@tamaraboling8625]

help full

[@thunderstriketrading]

The free archimesh add on does this too!

[@devside1012]

Thanks bro.

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@cav6969]

Quick question how did you make that modifier option look like that? Like another window tab cause mine is inside the Blender lol I'll be able to save some space

[@TheCGEssentials]

Great question - if you go up to "Window" and click on "New Window," that will pop out a new window that's still linked to the version of Blender that's open. You can click the dropdown on the upper left to select a window type - in this case it was "properties" :)

[@giovannidigitalart]

nice!

[@bobbic3011]

I don't know if I 100% know how to use booleans correctly, but from my experience it creates a bunch of n-gons which for games at the very least is bad. Although I'm probably just using them wrong.

[@marksevastipol1946]

Freaking genius!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@jacobp.6160]

Wouldn't that make the mesh hit box non enterable?

[@bruhnah4life]

Keep in mind to use solidify in the cube or something like that, sometimes i forgot to do it😂

[@larao168]

If i do it that way, the door is not a hole it just creates an indentation, leaving the outline of the inserted cube… what do i do wrong? 😭

[@skyrod5823]

What if I use a in-box(its a box but normals are inverted to create an interior)?

[@isaac8228]

Sometimes i just use solidworks and import thag to blender

[@user-ib7me5ul2n]

this just created another box partially inside of the walls for me. how do you make it a cut out?

[@valtabohm]

I know that trick but my mesh turns out bad cuz of the boolean. Any trick to avoid that?

[@exodust3114]

Oh cool so it’s like unreal engines geometry subtractive brush

[@samthesomniator]

That creates an NGon! What is a terrible crime against all gods of Blender. 😁😁

[@TheCGEssentials]

LOL - exactly

[@bolitvega1954]

Now you got Ngons

[@andymany]

01:00

[@marcorubioartista3d365]

00:00

[@muhammadaziz3834]

how do you add that floating windows

[@kasper369]

What is this process called?

[@Goober14-bq4zr]

The cube is just invisible now

[@musab_.]

What if I just apply the boolean modifier?

[@TheCGEssentials]

It finalizes the cut - nothing wrong with doing that if you don't need to move it around anymore

[@j.o.t.u.n.n]

I was like piff i now how to do this then i was like whaaaaat i really dont future me saving the link to full tutorial

[@crazyorange49-OG]

Would this still work if you were to export it into a fbx file then import into unity?

[@skyrod5823]

Yes, normally

[@CortVermin]

just get the bool tool shift select + press STRG & -

[@TheCGEssentials]

I don't know what this means...

[@Movie.hub01]

The tutorial video please

[@zachwilkins8392]

All good til you need to use it in game. NGons for days. Use the extra geometry - UE5 can handle it

[@hamedkerbache]

Sorry if this out of context but i thought Mark Zuckerberg is doing 3D tutorials 😂

[@tomt2020]

any ideas why my cube isn't turning invisible?

[@skyrod5823]

you have to put "display as" a wireframe or you can just turn him invisible

[@superdoesthings]

Carve addon: Do I look like a joke to you?

[@Some_one11237]

Just select and ctrl minus

[@Katuta1]

And now you have a billion n-gons

[@murom4593]

or just use 3ds max :)

[@Omnivoid22]

Apparently this messes up the topology big time. Might wanna mKe a vid covering this

[@harrytaylor6318]

also bagapie

[@clementj]

Coming to Blender from CAD, I thought I was abusing the boolean LOL... turns out everyone's using them...

[@tamaraboling8625]

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[@Sirnewtzz]

His tutorials make me feel stupid.

[@PugInPink]

Why does he remind me as mark Zuckerberg if he was a real person?

[@tamaraboling8625]

hi

[@n3lsonog694]

i am sorry but you look like mark zuckerburg i needed to say it great video though

[@jordi5316]

If u wanna spend some money. Buy box cutter. Literally so good. Sadly with blender 3.4 it crashes

[@TheCGEssentials]

Well it does usually take a bit of time for add-ons to be updated to the brand new versions of Blender - you'll have to give it just a bit

[@Abdu669]

And then Sophie will revenge for his dad

[@mrwhite1518]

Bro litarly said 👁️ 👁️ 👃 👄

[@LocalSlaveHolder]

This will fuck up your geometry

[@Mr-dk1dh]

Ctrl -

[@tamaraboling8625]

lo

[@haurg7418]

and what if i hate boolean?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Then do it the hard way?

[@tamaraboling8625]

hehed

[@flvbbernvggets]

Working in Blender is just hacking Blender to make Blender do what it was made to do.

[@grapherdeluxe9563]

Unfortunately, Boolean methods produce very poor meshes.

[@TheCGEssentials]

All depends on what you're doing. For ArchViz, which is mostly what I do, not a big deal.

[@ahmadwalker.studio]

why your voice like Andrew price?

[@TheCGEssentials]

I mean...I don't think it is

[@zg1981]

Oh Mann geht es nicht etwas langsamer 😢 schaffe es nicht nach zu machen

[@artlab_one]

It messes up the geometry - at least when you apply it. Shading issues incoming.

[@TheCGEssentials]

What kind of shading issues? It's a flat surface with a flat cut - why would that cause shading issues?

[@waberoid]

A lot of people show how to do boolean workflows but never the most important part, clean up. I have seen so many game models with n-gons and people saying "What are n-gons, or n-gons are fine"

[@tamaraboling8625]

lol

[@Bingeable]

Cinema 4D and Blender don’t seem much different

[@Rossilaz58]

People: IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT TOPOLOGY, LEARN ABOUT IT BEFORE DOING THIS!

[@TheCGEssentials]

What specific issues do you think this is going to cause in a flat wall? I'm not deforming it, I'm not subdividing it, I'm not doing complex UV mapping, so...what issues do you think the N-Gons this creates cause in this situation?

[@sindersinder6457]

молодец лысый, но главные аспекты не выделяешь

[@christianconrad5200]

You don't say..

[@tamaraboling8625]

l

[@nicolasarnau5633]

Arquimesh is easier

[@mcafee524]

Too late for me

[@tamaraboling8625]

lo l

[@darvikpatel]

omg stop calling him mark Zuckerberg, it’s gone out of hands

[@TheNecroNaut999]

I’ll just stick to Fusion360

[@tamaraboling8625]

lol