When you have problems with flipped faces, in most cases you can also just select everything with A and press Shift + N to recalculate the normals. Just double check that everything on the outside is blue and not red or else you’re going to have problems.

Not sure if you learned this by now, but limited dissolve will remove any planar geometry that isn't surface defining, barring two edges which will provide link support for details on a surface. It'll also strip any quad topology you'd made, but in that first example it seemed as though it'd be faster to limited dissolve and then reconnect the quads.

imma happy to see your progress in blender

Your videos are like diamonds of best practices and professional workflows. So much knowledge packed so densely. Thank you for uploading this, I'll be rewatching and taking notes!

Dude I love your content, you're giving amazing tips that help me so much and all, but Bruh. The fact that you took one look at a foldable angled grip and said "yeah that looks like a place for a magazine" when there was already a clear magazine at the rear, REALLY hurt. Also, here's a few limited pieces of gun vocab for future reference: Picatinny rail: That repeatable section that showed up all over the piece, including the top where the sight is mounted Iron Sight: This is a piece of the gun that can be used to aim (NOT attached, like the sight featured on this gun Charging handle: The part of the gun with the loop on either side. That one specifically is ambidextrous as it can be used on either side. Bullpup: A gun that has the trigger in front of the actual firing mechanism. A common characteristic you can look out for is where the magazine is placed. If the magazine is behind the trigger (further from the barrel), then it's a bullpup. Muzzle: The tip of the barrel. It can be multiple various things, but the overarching term that I see used a lot is "muzzle" to refer to the tip of the barrel. Grip: This is a protruding piece of the gun, or an attachment you can put onto the gun, to hold it. Magazine: A solid piece that holds ammo, and feeds it into the gun. If it's permanently attached to the gun, it's called an "internal magazine". Clip: Usually a simple bent piece of metal that holds ammo temporarily, which is pushed off of the clip and into the gun, usually into an internal magazine. Trigger: The trigger is the thing you pull to fire the gun, which is pretty standard information, but I thought I'd mention it just to complete the list. This is by no means exhaustive, there's a lot of things I didn't mention like a gas blowback system and stuff, but the simpler landmarks of guns. I'm no 3d artist of any capacity to even think of rivalling you, and I'm not particularly good at drawing guns in 2d either, but it genuinely gives me psychic damage when I see this sort of thing because I refuse to believe that I know even an ounce more than the average person about firearms despite studying them for a lot longer than should be healthy.

Thank you for providing this Blender tutorial. I look forward to seeing additional Blender tutorials in the future.

oh my 3D BEAST! what an amazing journey and consistency on trying blender! I love it when I see an unbiased person that knows the knowledge and doesn't bother with the tools! I used to experience the same transitioning from 20 years of 3Ds max to blender 3 years ago! those experiences stay the same, you'll learn how to use them differently in another software! keep doing it I really enjoy your videos ❤

With setting hard edges on a subdivision instead of going to the Tools menu, going down to Edge Data, then finally editing the mean crease slider, you can use Shift+E as a shortcut

That looks clean! This motivated me to try more hard surface stuff in blender. I sometimes had problem with corners due to adding bevels+chamfer without knowing how to properly holding the edges. Appreciates the most excellent explanation, thank you so much for video! 🙏

great video u can also use the spin tool instead of the array with a empty

damn what a journey. his efficiency w blender evolved so greatly its all mindset and how to tackle solutions. i love it. both softwares are great for modelling. i still cant abandon maya cause even if i model less on it i still animate. but modelling workflow is interesting on both sides. impressive progress. you really are a modelling beast lol

Awesome Video! I tutor basic 3d modeling and animation at my local college. But still always learning more just from these videos. Wish I could take a class. I know you're a very busy fella, but damn I'd love to see you make more videos like these. Keep up on leveling up you 3D modeling BEAST!

Autodesk really fucked up by not allowing a full purchase of Maya with incremental upgrades. Blender isn't yet a full competitor to Maya but it's getting there...and its free.

It's been three years since I moved on to blender, it's great to see some of my favorite KZfaqrs switching from Maya to blender too.

Oooh, just realized you are doing some Blender stuff now! Nice!

this shows where to improve, i got inspiration to start modeling vehicles from playing days gone, i liked the motorcycles that much.

True 3D Beast, it's not the tools it's who's using the tools. Top notch vid!

Nice, maybe in the future you can do a video about what do you like in blender and what do you think it needs improvement

Loving your content! keep it up!

for radial array using addon from captain cirno is life saver

That's what im talking about!!! welcome to blender JL❤ I'm so happy, hope you will continue

Love that "Make Moves Scale Up" shirt. Might have to grab that

Thumbs up! I really do want to do weapon modeling but i need to master the techniques first before going to this kind of complex object

Thanks for the the video, JL you maybe wan to look for some videos on YT that show how made a radial array using Geometry nodes, I made one still a WIP combining different videos and is faster that set up the the radial array with the empty. Also have the advantage that you can save as a tool, and you can select were this tool show in blender. After this you can save it on you Assets Library to be use any time you need.

Your topo is clean af man!

Looks amazing

Amazing video, it’s full with a lot of very helpful topology methods information and I love that it’s in Blender. Thanks for sharing this process with a timeline. That helps to understand a lot about the length of the building process. I just have one question: How much time would this have taken if you have done it with Maya?

cavity sure seems helpful when working with hard surface modelling

5:42 for split second, I thought the rifle model resulted in turning into sofa model with photoreal rendering

have you tried using the bevel modifier first and once you are happy with it, apply it? you can use it "weight" mode to have control on what edges you want to bevel.

There are so many different ways to model, and I've tried a few, so, as someone trying to get into the industry as a modeler/level designer, which work flow should I mainly practice?

Sometimes doing everything from scratch is much faster than redoing it. Personally, I would do the following: I would select the entire model, go into editing mode to work with edges, select all the edges, press X (or Del) on the keyboard and select Limited Dissolve from the menu that appears. This command removes all edges on flat surfaces, in other words, only the shape of the model remains. After that, I would make the topology from scratch.

Blender modifiers like bend taper arrays are usually a pain to use in my experience

Hi at 11:22 where the normals are flipped you can just mark everything and press shift N that recalculates the normals and flips them to the right side. Otherwise good Video keep it up.

Love the Video, Quick Tip if you did not know, Clicking on two vertices and pressing (J) will do the same as the knife tool, It will cut through the mesh and connect them. And it was funny that you made the magazine at the front grip with a hinge where the barrel of the gun is >_< (Gave me a good laugh)

Wow, great explanation! But now Im curious, do game models always have this kind of topology the model initially had or whats the workflow there, wouldnt it be just better creating the model like you did in the first place and before subD-ing just keep a copy of the low res? Im not an expert, just asking so I can do it right haha

Great!!!

judging by the thumbnail it took him 100 hours to find the subdiv modifier?

JK Mussi Iam new to game development just started learning blender can you make blender tutorials or can you suggest a best blender tutorial channel

Can you make a tutorial to make a collapsible katana???

Maybe update with Lowpoly in - Harden and Soften edges

I like to use an Empty object as the basis for the Mirror. I just name it something like Mirror Empty and put it in its own collection. Then I don't have to worry about where the origin of an object is when I mirror it.

i'm a bit confused as to why "remeshing" is refered to as modifying the topology. The topology is unchanged here... The local parametrisation sure changes tho.. I'm genuinely curious.

with a few free addon this will be faster and a bit of QOL.

Can't you just use Quad Remesher and bake the detail to the remeshed mesh? Wouldn't that be a lot easier and faster than doing the cleanup? I'm new to this, so I'm just earnestly asking :)

I am also a Beginner and made a MCOR 17 Rifle in Maya. Can you review my file as well and tell me what to improve??

Do you recommend me to learn blender or learn Maya please help me make a choice

what is the background music 0:50

Pardon my ignorance is this hard surface workflow also required for game assets or primarily for VFX hard surface assets?

Hey i don't understand his game gun model and your sub? what is difference his game model and your sub d model?

Use more modify in blender. Is more easy for modeling

Oh Pinoy! Keep going kabayan. haha. Nice video!

You made a few mistakes when you were using bevel you added extra geometry you had to select the boundary loops and not the face but the edges.

No no no Mussi. One video was funny..

Hii sir, will it be right for me to go into modeling in the future? Because AI is improving so much

Easy if you use boolean in mode blenderbros... :D

Sir, we need a tutorial on Modelling in Blender start to end, Navigation to workflow.

Man, buy hardops and mech machine addons. U will be happy, and never go back maya))

Really good but too much polygons, can be done with less. Of course just an opinion and a different style. (what i mean, at the end you used Nurbs to show the final result...........so you can do the same with less poligons).

Why this guy at the beggining looks like AI? Very weird

If you want topology, follow Aryan