Working with polygons in a scene

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In addition to using modeling tools,

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we can also start to add some modifiers to our objects.

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So for instance, let's go ahead and I'm just gonna click off of this,

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go back to our main editable poly

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and let's go into the modifier list that's directly above that.

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So there are going to be tons of different modifiers that we can add.

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Let's say I want to smooth this. Well, there are several ways that we can do this.

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I'm gonna go ahead and you can add like a turbo smooth.

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Uh If you want to, I'm gonna go ahead and add an open sub

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and then under here you can see with that open subdiv above that polygon.

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What you're seeing now

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is the result of the stack.

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And so if I click on the edible poly,

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now we're only seeing that base polygon even

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though this open subdiv is still on there.

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If we wanna be able to see the result, no matter where we are in the stack,

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we can click on this button right here to show in result.

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And now we're seeing the result of that open

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subdiv even though we don't have it selected,

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we can go into the open sub

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and change the iterations to make it smoother.

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We can turn off the visibility if we want to go back and see that or we can turn this off.

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And then we're only looking at whatever

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part of that stack we happen to be looking at right then.

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So you can layer modifiers on top of each other to get the result that you want.

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Now, before we move on, I did want to show you one more thing about the modifier stack.

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And so I've gone ahead and deleted that object.

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Let's create a new primitive really quickly. So I'm gonna go to create

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box and let's just go to the keyboard entry, I'll do 10 by 10 by 10 and just hit create.

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And so here we have our box. If we go into the modify panel, you can see

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that primitive here

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at the beginning of the lesson we talked about having to convert this to

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an editable mash or editable poly in order to use the polygon modeling tools.

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Well, instead of converting our model,

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we could also use the modifier stack to enable us to use those tools.

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So if instead of right clicking on the box

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and choosing to convert this to an editable poly,

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we can't just go into the modifier stack.

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And if we come down to the ease, we can see we have an edit poly modifier.

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So if we add that to the top of the stack. And if we open up that edit poly

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modifier,

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now we go to polygon

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and we choose our polygons,

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we can come down to extrude and we can start to use the

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same modeling tools on this primitive shape that we have not converted.

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So utilizing the stack,

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we're able to kind of convert this into

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an edible poly without actually converting it.

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So if we had to, we could go back

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in and make changes to the primitive.

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So the stack is really,

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really a flexible way of working in that you can separate

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all of your actions into different modifiers on the stack.

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And then at certain points, you can collapse the stack when you're ready to go.

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All right. So just another way to use the modifier stack.