BB-8 Body

[Gerald Lasser]

I decided to do a few parts from the LDD leftovers. One of the is the BB-8 body, part 20953.

When doing it in the usual 16  segment, I find it too rough, not giving an eye-pleasing result. However making it 48 segments seems a bit too many, as the number of (plain) surfaces on the sphere would be around 720. I tried with 32 segments for a circle now and this is the result below. Note, that the print is 48 segments.


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What's your opinion on the number of segments?

[Philippe Hurbain]

32 seems a good compromise as it allows relatively easy junction with 16 primitive studs... Perhaps go a bit further, 32 in horizontal plane, 24 in vertical direction?

[Orion Pobursky]

I decided to do a few parts from the LDD leftovers. One of the is the BB-8 body, part 20953.

When doing it in the usual 16  segment, I find it too rough, not giving an eye-pleasing result. However making it 48 segments seems a bit too many, as the number of (plain) surfaces on the sphere would be around 720. I tried with 32 segments for a circle now and this is the result below. Note, that the print is 48 segments.



What's your opinion on the number of segments?

I'd just do 48. It's a standard facecount and it doesn't really matter with modern renderers.

[Roland Melkert]

When doing it in the usual 16  segment, I find it too rough, not giving an eye-pleasing result. However making it 48 segments seems a bit too many, as the number of (plain) surfaces on the sphere would be around 720. I tried with 32 segments for a circle now and this is the result below. Note, that the print is 48 segments.

How does it look with smoothing ?

But Orion is right modern hardware barley gets exited about 720 faces, if rendering per part the api overhead is probably more of an issue then the face count

[Gerald Lasser]

Thanks for your opinions, made me go for the 48 segments