Creating Holes in Mesh

[SnaFuBAR]

I get asked this question a lot, and I'm sure some people might still struggle with this, so I put together a quick tutorial for you guys. Give some feedback or ask more questions if you like.



Doing this with possibly another one or two quick slices you can also do multiple angles. Play around with how you build your mesh because it can be significantly lower poly depending on how you build it.

Building them diagonally in this case made it significantly lower poly than building horizontally. Before you ask why I have unnecessary cuts, I don't. I built this in quads for the the high-poly to bake from.

[legionaire45]

:O That is very handy. Great tutorial Graet Post.

[Disaster]

Excellent.

[MetKiller Joe]

Great stuff.

[Malloy]

I was previously using Boolean tool for this XD.

-jk

[Joshflighter]

Ah, I always wanted to know how to do this back in the day.

[Higuy]

coolio

[Disaster]

I was previously using Boolean tool for this XD.

-jk

Boolean tool is also good but you still have to reconstruct faces.

[SnaFuBAR]

boolean only works well with sealed forms and clean meshes. don't use boolean otherwise because it creates double edges and double polies.

[Disaster]

boolean only works well with sealed forms and clean meshes. don't use boolean otherwise because it creates double edges and double polies.

Yeah I know. Thats why you have to go back and reconstruct your suface but you have the verts to work from.