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stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:03 PM

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You need to be in edit mode first

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then you change the transformation orientation

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(well, you don't need to be in edit mode to change that, actually)

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:03 PM

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I can't get into normal mode, even in edit mode

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the option isn't there

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let me switch to 3.5, 3.6 has been scuffed ever since I got it

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:06 PM

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Show me where you're trying to change this.

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round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:08 PM

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I'm already in 3.5 with the same model, it shows in 3.5 but in 3.6 it goes straight from local to gimbal

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:09 PM

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Interesting. I'm using 3.5; I wonder if it got renamed or moved.

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I'll have to look at 3.6

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anyway, here's what I did

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edit mode, normal orientation

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select all hair edges

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E to extrude

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X to lock to the normal X-direction

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move the mouse a bit

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:11 PM

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your keybinds aren't original then

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:11 PM

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they're pretty standard

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:11 PM

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x is delete for me

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:11 PM

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X after starting the extrude operation

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X/Y/Z will lock you onto an axis when doing something that involves moving the mouse

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shift-X/Y/Z will lock the other two axes

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:13 PM

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it still shouldn't be this difficult, tons of particle hair is in unity projects, there has to be a better way than fattening it

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:13 PM

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I am not familiar with how this is done (somehow, despite being a furry)

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i've mostly seen it done through shaders or through big blocks of hair

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:14 PM

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I just need to add fur to this ugly taidum tail because the maker added fins as part of the shape rather than on top of it

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:14 PM

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i thought that was a taidum, haha

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:14 PM

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and it's impossible to smooth out fully

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well it's some headway at least, hides the bumpiness from the fin

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:25 PM

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round cosmos I just need to add fur to this ugly taidum tail because the maker added fins as ...

do you just need to separate one part from the rest of the mesh?

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:25 PM

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you can't, the fin is part of the tail, separating it leaves a hold

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hole

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:25 PM

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round cosmos I just need to add fur to this ugly taidum tail because the maker added fins as ...

i just don't get how this has anything to do with putting fur on it

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:26 PM

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I can't smooth it perfectly, fur hides the smoothing because the fin is the bane of my existence right now

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:26 PM

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maybe show me a picture of what the problem looks like?

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:27 PM

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fin smoothed down

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it's too oddly shaped to get a good smooth finish without spending way longer than I should for a 100 dollar comm

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:27 PM

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is the fin supposed to be able to come out of the tail?

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:29 PM

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and the fin deleted

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no it's not

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it's part of the tail but it ruins versatility for the model

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:29 PM

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so the tail is a tube

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and some of the tube's faces are a different material to make a fin?

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:30 PM

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yep

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had a similar problem with morghus's wings

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:31 PM

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i don't see why you can't just change the material back; maybe it's not obvious from the screenshots

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:31 PM

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in the end it makes a SLIGHTLY cleaner edge at the risk of destroying versatility

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wdym

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:31 PM

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I'm just not getting a clear picture of the geometry. maybe you could share the tail mesh?

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I bet you can completely remove the fin cleanly

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:31 PM

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it's huge

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:32 PM

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ooh, okay, that makes more sense

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you have a blendshape that makes the fin retract

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and that winds up with weird normals/geometry density

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:32 PM

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except I can't smooth it

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I'm not gonna pretend im good at blender, I loathe it. couldnt even do the tutorial bc it's all ridiculous videos

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:33 PM

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I do a fair bit of Blender work (just shy of full character modeling, because I'm terrible at art)

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I wouldn't mind clipping it off for you. Wouldn't take more than a few minutes.

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the only hard part would be re-weighting the new geometry and fixing the UVs

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:36 PM

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Do you know a way to do it smoothly?

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 2:37 PM

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It looks like you'd need to create two lines of quads along the gap

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 2:38 PM

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then we're left with a flat center and back to the beginning, but also the ridge before the fin is another thing to delete

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 3:11 PM

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@stark cargo know a good way to close a giant hole? could just replace the tail

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 3:22 PM

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check out https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/face/grid_fill.html

round cosmos Sep 9, 2023, 8:11 PM

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alr tried the blender discord again, got ignored again I swear that place sucks. @stark cargo figured it out, just need to know if its possible to move vertices in opposite directions evenly so I can spike it out like the body

stark cargo Sep 9, 2023, 8:15 PM

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turning on the X-axis mirror would help with that

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