3D 建模基础知识

在当今的视频教学时代，有些教程作者总会忽略最基础的内容。他们跳过那些能帮助建模师为模型打下坚实基础的原理，直接讲解复杂的技巧。这或许能吸引观众的注意力，但当这些复杂的技巧最终导致模型无法正常使用时，又该怎么办呢？ 我们很多人可能都曾花费数小时制作一个复杂的网格，却在关键时刻发现模型无法实现我们的预期目标。接下来该怎么办？难道要穿越回高中的第一年，去报名参加《建模入门》课程吗？当然不！谁愿意面对挥舞着尺子和乱扔纸团的同学呢？不，我们大多数人都希望有人能在舒适的家中、对着自己的电脑，教给我们扎实的建模基础知识。 这正是本视频教程的目标所在，其受众广泛。只要你能在建模软件中绘制出一个方块，就能跟随本教程进行学习。你只需要大约 90 分钟的时间，以及学习、实践和不断进步的意愿。 你将了解“为何如此”的深层原因。你将掌握支撑实践的理论。用通俗易懂的话来说，你将学习基本的建模技巧，同时掌握应对灰色地带的技巧，比如处理有问题的三角形周围的模糊效果，以及处理令人头疼的非凸多边形等问题。你还将掌握结构的核心要素，比如如何通过在关键位置添加整洁的多边形，将一个粗糙的模型转变为流畅美观的作品，只需让几束光线从特定位置反射即可

In today's world of video instruction, some tutorial authors forget to teach the ABCs. They skim over the principles that encourage a modeler to create a firm foundation for a model and go right to the fancy stuff. That may be the way to get a viewer's attention, but what happens when the fancy stuff results in an unusable model? Many of us have probably spent hours working on an intricate mesh only to find, at exactly the wrong moment, that the model won't do what we want it to do. Then what? Do we wish we could time travel to our first year of high school and enroll in Modeling 101? Of course not! Who wants to dodge hovering rulers and flying spitballs? No, most of us wish that someone would teach us the basics of good modeling, in the comfort of our own home, in front of our own computer. That is precisely what this video tutorial aims to do, and its target audience is wide. If you can draw a box in your modeler, you can work through this tutorial. All you need is approximately 90 minutes and the willingness to watch, practice and learn. You will learn the why behind the how. You will learn the theory that spawns the practice. In plain English, you'll learn basic modeling techniques, along with tips that lead you through gray areas, such as the questionable fog that surrounds troublesome triangles and the nasty ngon. You will also pick up the nuts and bolts of structure, such as where to place clean polygons that turn a clunker into a sleek model, just by bouncing a few light rays off strategic locations.