Incresing poly count to cut a whole ?

lou_harper

What I'm trying to do is cut a recangular hole in a wall. However, when I click anywhere on the wall with the geometry editor tool the whole surface is selected. I'm guessing it's one plane with texture and no divisions. Is it editebale somehow?

crosswind

Yes, Ctrl + 8 to check Wireframe, as well as the polycount in Scene Info. pane. You have no way to handle it in Ds, either add loop cut in Blender, Hexagon etc or use another wall prop with enough divisions.

But loop cut will break its UV so origina tex. maps could not be directly used. If it only has shader preset, that'll be fine.

 

lou_harper

I didn't think of wireframe. Heh. I ended replacing it with a plane with enough divisions. Will add shaders later.

Richard Haseltine

You could apply SubD, using the Geometry Editor to select the edges and then apply a weight to them to prevent distortion. Export as OBJ and reimport.

crosswind

Oh...yeh, forgot that way of SubD ! Yes, as Richard mentioned, convert to SubD first, give it a certain SubD level as needed, and chaning SubDivision Algorithm to Bilinear might be quicker, export and reimport.