The PROPER way to deform objects in Blender!

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[@JoshGambrell]

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[@tenium2912]

What is the shortcut of 6:06?

[@asmodeusz28]

For extra fun, you can set up soft body physics on the lattice.

[@Mocorn]

Hang on a minute... are you saying its possible to "fake" soft body physics behaviour through adding a lattice to an object and simulate the physics on that instead of the actual object?

[@asmodeusz28]

@@Mocorn Yes, and if your mesh has a lot of polys using a lattice like that can make the physics run a lot faster.

[@Mocorn]

@@asmodeusz28 this is so cool. I've been trying to figure out how to optimise soft bodies since they take a lot of computer power to calculate. Thanks! Now I just need to figure out how this works exactly :)

[@tubeofwonders6]

Useful and interesting tutorial. Thank you. I add only a suggestion. You are very fast and using keyboard command without showing what you are doing, make difficult (for people with not so much experience with blender) to track what you are doing. Maybe, adding command information messages can make more boring the tutorial for someone but more useful for a lot of people.

[@bobthemop1956]

yep - this was beyond me... off to find a more noob explanation!

[@FluffyCrimsonBirkenstocks]

Agreed! Some creators have a small text box on the bottom right that displays the mouse clicks, keyboard shortcuts and combos. It's so useful!

[@Luluskuy]

well said, I had to replay the videos many times to check if I miss something on the screen. Then I realize he might be using keyboard shortcut🙃

[@Cloudsofsand]

Yup way too confusing

[@stephensatt]

Without showing the keyboard commands I cannot follow this. He did what I was looking to do but cannot reproduce it because I have no idea what key to hit.

[@tnmcelroy]

Thanks so much for this. I'm learning Blender, and just when I think I've learned enough and start making something, I get instantly stuck. Then your video comes along and helps me out :D

[@JoshGambrell]

Thanks Tony!

[@frankbauerful]

Thank you. I was googling for a way to deform in Blender because I wasn't able to achieve what I wanted with proportional editing, your video popped up and it's EXACTLY what I needed.

[@nufeud]

Things like this are the ones we easily ignore until pointed out. Thanks, Josh!

[@akam9919]

Thanks a lot man! I'm new to modelling and really needed this!

[@harrysanders818]

Another cool and non destructive way of deforming, probably more for oganic things, is to make your cube, subdivide it once and then use a subdiv mod on it. You get a cage similar to a lattice, but it deforms the object in a smooth way. You can use creasing to control where you want your edges to be more pinched and/or add additional loops sparsely to get more control. Its pretty common but I thought I'd mention it, because I find it is also one of the crucial deformation techniques to have under ones belt as well instead of going the "naive" or dirty manual way of proportionally editing vertices right from the start. It is especially useful for creating basemeshes for sculpting or even directly create low poly model geometry, without spending hours trying to get a smooth silhouette by hand. Manhandling at some point tends to be always always necssary for me though. That's the other side of the medal :) I like to remind myself to not feel bound to non destructive all the time, out of my experience, this can also get in your way. But I don't go guns blazing into manipulatin individual verts from the get go also and try to stay as loose as possible in the initial bockout and modeling phases. There's no golden way and it depends on a lot factors, like the object your making, the artstyle, the kind of pipeline you have set up etc. Thanks fo reminding me of lattice! It is one of those modifiers I tend to forget exists :P . Really insanely useful for hard surface modeling and something that gives you a lot of control.

[@davidmcknight4028]

Josh, Thanks for this best practice. Hopefully you can do an updated version when using a mirror modifier with the lattice.

[@s3ntry948]

Thank you so much for your Vanilla tips. As a beginner it helps me so much to discover blender. Great Job!

[@georgiosrigas8094]

Thank you. This is what I was looking for. A deform way without creating a mesh chaos

[@ellal6915]

Fantastic video. Thank you I was deforming with proportional editing and loop cuts.

[@MFXvisuals-official]

Thank you so much brother, you are helping me a lot to become a 3d modeler🤩

[@zofo264]

The part about cleaning up the geo at the end was helpful. Thanks for sharing :)

[@dynamicsketch]

This helped a ton on deforming a sphere. And it was so quick and easy to figure out. Thank you.

[@NecroViolator]

Awesome video. ! Question : I see when you are "sizing, moving around" your mesh snaps to the grid. How do you "snap to grid" like that ??

[@UdjinUdjin]

As usual, great life hacks! Thanks

[@PCXT84]

Amazing!!! So perfect solution for my project. Thanks!

[@karthikeyan-bl2yh]

Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[@aliendiesel9242]

hello thank you for the video, please can you tell me which shortcut will be used for deformation after choosing proportional editing falloff? In the video, it is the circle according to which the network deforms. Thanks a lot)))

[@r4siel11]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I was searching for a better way to bend object and the I just came to this video. It's so fun bending all my objects to my will XD

[@beatrizlibros9466]

Incredible!!! How have you done that last bolean? Is it an add-on? Thanks!

[@Spooky_Adler]

this video helped me A LOT! TY so much!

[@andywhiteing]

I would follow what you said at the start about loops but I didnt see where you went to get to loops. As a first time learner of Blender how does this help me?

[@Mocorn]

Cheers man. Got stuck on trying to bend and object in Blender and the Simple deform modifier works in mysterious ways, hard to control and wrap my head around. The Lattice function is much easier to work with for what I'm trying to do =)

[@UKSteveM100]

Great tutorial, thanks

[@diogosan]

That is exactly what i was looking for, thank you a lot

[@dianakottler3851]

This is really amazing! Thank you so much! Working with materials in the end I really try to keep kinda clean vertecies to avoid having too much trouble with UVs later (we'll see if that still works later on xD)

[@twistedheir]

The black nodes aren't showing up on my lattice, any suggestions on how to get them to show up? Otherwise great video and very helpful.

[@lazarwolftube]

Hey man, what was your shortcut to pop the boolen into the scene?

[@galankprayogo1383]

thank you its helping with my parametric design for cnc stuff.

[@triggvfx5784]

how did you do the thing at 6:04 where it makes a hole inside the cube with another cube?

[@sirchewtrain]

Definitely going to use the lattice more. Cleaner geometry is nice

[@pinelew5835]

thank you so much for sharing ! Helps a lot in the fundamental way, BTW which hot key did you use at 05:42 to dissolve those edges?

[@JoshGambrell]

Ctrl+X

[@Joooem]

whats the shortcut you're using to boolean at 6:06 or is it another add-ons you're using?

[@13thnotehifireviews7]

Don't know if the settings have changed since your video but when you deform the object on one side with the lattice it annoyingly deforms the other side, not like your tutorial? The "manual" says you can apply vertex groups so as not for this to happen but it doesn't work. I tried a mirror but that didn't seem to work. As ever with this software, often the tutorial is not the whole picture.

[@peterrandall6761]

does anyone know why my cube scale is deforming immediately when I add the lattice modifier?

[@devilik3692]

because dude who made video is a moron

[@ahzibania]

thanks mate this helped me alot

[@ThndrChimp]

Can you use a lattice to manipulate just one part of the object?

[@SonictheHedgehogInRealLife]

How do you vertex slide with the lattice it doesn't do anything.

[@Nicho9]

Lattice is sooo good thank you!

[@denkozlov4220]

Thanks a lot for spotlight on that subject

[@ThastsiT]

what is that cutting method you did?

[@protostar8]

My lattice doesn't bend the object at the 3:48 marker like yours. Mine keeps the entire side of the original box flat. Is there a vanilla option that isn't ticked or that is changed in Blender 2.93?

[@cephalos81]

hey man great tip for newbies like myself, thank you so much so this is how you sculpt huh? i really got to get into this

[@bastian6173]

What if there is a part of an object that I want to stay unmodified? I'll just use a vertex group in the lattice modifier?

[@kozz3]

I know you probably said this in another video but how do you turn on booleans at 6:00 what button is it

[@lego1168]

Could you say how you are doing things more in the tutorial? like how are you adding more at 2:02 (as in what is the shortcut)?

[@KRIZINKGRIN]

Absolutely excellent video many thanks.👍🏽🌁

[@_benon]

you are a life saver thank you !!

[@unusuariogenerico8382]

It says failed to set value when i want to add the lattice modifier

[@shekw]

Nice! Thanks.

[@blenderzone5446]

Great weapon model!

[@raymondstpaul4913]

Please show what keys step by step you are using on the screen am new to Blender.

[@vodeaku]

I didn't know lattice is in Blender. I got used to Live2D and love the fact it's in blender too. Will definitely use it in my future modelling.

[@arthentic4508]

Thank you so much!

[@spectrobit5554]

i wish lattices were as fast as the ffd modifier in max, I mean, they are fast, but the ffd modifier is on another level, any alternatives?

[@waldemarlowen7230]

Try out the EZ Lattice Addon. :-) blender-addons.org/ezlattice-addon/

[@DarkAutumn3D]

Tell me about it.. I've been using 3DS Max for almost 20 years and this is one of those things that frustrates me. There are so many things that Blender surpasses 3DS Max in but lacks in others. I do still use Blender more than 3DS now though.

[@ModelsStealer]

how to enable that big circle

[@QureshKukshiwala]

I'm looking for the rigging tutorial for a Electric Locomotive Pantograph, but didn't find the relevant video, can you please make video on "Rigging an Electric Locomotive Pantograph"

[@XTomsenX]

How did u cut out at 6:09?

[@TonyStark-hz7ue]

how come his lattice is green selected after creation, while mine isnt, n also when i deform the lattice it isn't deforming the shape, what do i do ?

[@TruthSurge]

just because someone is using :29 (and you can clearly see the effect radius is why it crunched your mesh up at left instead of all the way across equally) is no reason to go through all of that headache of making this lattice for every simple cube you want to model into something else. Just create a mesh and deform it properly without a lattice. ?

[@carolmandi]

Thanks very much saved my life

[@santiagobetancur4894]

6:08 how to make this boolean? is it an addon?? which one?

[@sbiecoproductions6062]

Boom bro. Nice💪

[@vondarycrentsil9180]

This would help me to model my concept car, tanx😍

[@erkishhorde]

Oh, that's interesting. So if you scale the lattice, it doesn't affect the geometry it is applied to but if you move the vertices of the lattice, it does. So when you're first sizing your lattice, use scale and don't just move points.

[@RealNekoGamer]

I find myself using proportional deform when modeling a character body or hair. I suppose I could have the lattice parallel the orientation when it comes to hair, but my concern is: is this overkill?

[@harrysanders818]

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[@VLena_art]

thank you! I give you the most helpful blender chanel 2020!

[@JoshGambrell]

That means a lot Luka, thanks!

[@sebbosebbo9794]

Hi, thx for your great free tuts,...... for blender 3.0 is IT possible to show a Workflow for 3d text defoming, for Animation..is Hard to find a fast worklflow in blender or a good video tuts for b3.0...

[@marcossocram6723]

Thank you!

[@FlipDarkFuture]

Hey how do you have those beveled edges on the default cube? Is it just using the Bevel modifier?

[@FlipDarkFuture]

@@joshmbrown42 Oh shit, that drastically improves the looks of things, thanks so much!

[@Spiderhip]

Sir, what did you do on 6:05 ? Is that a plugin or just a shortcut? Great tut by the way.

[@Geroundios]

for some reason my object disappears whe i apply the modifier even if the strength is 1.00

[@tranhung7307]

thank you so much

[@mariadiniz5565]

YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFEEEEEEEE THANKS

[@nekospace3614]

Thanks 🤩

[@ReinOwader]

when you go to object mode, your model looks like it has small bevel instead of sharp corners. I have seen this many times, but I cant figure out how to do it myself. Is it just some viewport shading trick or is there some bevel modifier applied as last modifier?

[@JoshGambrell]

It’s the cavity option in the dropdown menu next to the viewport orbs

[@KingShepskiy]

6:05 what did he do there ive never seen anyone just cut a part out like that, how do i do that??

[@TheGrimKit]

damn... i apparently have alot to learn about blender... i did not even realized you could do any of this with blender

[@dorna_dor2545]

Hi! thanksfor ur video. how did you cut your object at 6:10? what add-on was that?

[@3dfyn230]

HardOps

[@lazyy3d]

really helpful video, Thanks....one suggestion as a novice for Blender...please 'TURN ON screencast keys'. So, we can learn which shortcut keys you uses and learn faster. :)

[@JoshGambrell]

Thanks Mayank! I usually have them on but the addon tends to turn itself off randomly in the middle of videos... super annoying. Hoping it will be fixed or someone makes another tool for screencast.

[@shaddyeldesouky8953]

perfectly matched my need

[@TruthSurge]

Can you explain why, if this is the proper way to deform objects, I have never seen anyone do it this way in Blender tutorials? thx! I'm just starting to look at Blender modeling on here and it seems there's 1000 ways to do the same thing so it makes it difficult to know which path to take. This lattice idea seems like too much work and why would there not be a REAL proper way that everyone uses for BASIC deformation and geometry that's just simple curving or beveling or extruding, etc.?

[@bes5164]

Thanks for the tutorial, however, always when I create the green Lattice "cage" around the object and then apply the object on the "cage" via the Lattice modifier, the object shrinks, gets smaller and I do not know why.

[@justben7564]

try using ctrl a to apply scale on both the obect and lattice

[@yass_queeen_engery]

You said if you are using blender vanilla when getting the lattice ready but I prefer strawberry 🍓

[@gregarmstrong4653]

Spooky, I was just trying to do this in blender. I wonder if google has access to commands you use within blender ? thanks, it works great

[@nova6k]

I gotta go learn the keybinds and shit cause I have no idea how he did any of what he did, definitely will be helpful once I learn it tho

[@b-wall7527]

Nice!

[@aliakdogan9426]

thank you

[@TheLoneBit]

When he started hard surface modeling @ 5:50 My jaw dropped! Good golly, it looks like magic.

[@julianb.6158]

Could you please show what your actually pressing? Im new to blender and have literally no idea what your doin

[@yenchey3270]

1:48 how do I do that?

[@blackswan6386]

the wordl needs more Lattice !!! awesome !!! awesoooooome !!!!

[@jaroslawpiwar5811]

Thank you.

[@vssska2870]

microsoft: "impossible"

[@S9universe]

thanks

[@Mp3Robbo]

Ok so you press G to move vertices?

[@yyin2612]

This is still to deform the whole object. When you need to deform the selected element individually, that step is more troublesome. The whole modifier and vertex group need to be optimized. Please refer to Max's modifier

[@graphikeye]

Any reason you wouldn't do a subvid modifier before adding the lattice modifier? Nice vid

[@JoshGambrell]

That works as well. Set it to Simple.