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Where to find or create a poleless poly sphere? (answered)

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#1

I have seen Ralph Stumpf using poleless spheres for modelling his chars.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=54757

Can anyone tell me how to create a poleless sphere or where to find it?

#2

There is one in Lightbox\Project folder.

If you want to make one then,

  1. Draw a Cube on the canvas and enable Edit mode.
  2. Go to Unified Skin submenu and turn Resolution down to 8 and Smooth down to 0 and click Make Unified Skin.
  3. Click on the Skin tool that was just put into your Tool palette to put it on the canvas.
  4. Turn on Polyframe so you can see the wire.
  5. In Geometry submenu, click Reconstruct Subdiv three times so there is only 1 poly per face on the cube then click Delete Higher so there is only 1 Subdivision level.
  6. Make sure Smt is on then subdivide the cube into a poleless sphere.
#3

Thanks Man

That helps

#4

No problem! You are welcome. It might be a good idea to make your own also because you might have a use for the lower subdivision levels whereas the one in the Lightbox\Project folder doesn’t go very low.