Seeking advice for Seam Blends
Posted: December 15th, 2019, 9:39 am
For the past few days I've started learning Seam Blends, I spent a lot of time studying all the guides and stuff available that even remotely touched the subject, testing out methods and stuff myself and felt really confident I had it all down and was ready to start Seam Blending my course. Turns out, Seam Blends are even trickier and troublesome than I imagined! Im running into a lot of "Could not analyse selected geometry. Path mapping calculation failed." errors, as well as areas that are difficult to seam blend without making multiple and sometimes intersecting extrusions. Most of these issues are because my course is laid out with a lot of texture seams meeting in 3 way intersections such as the examples in the picture attached below, and also the fact that some of the seam blends I'm trying to figure out first are very large areas calling for very long stretching extrusion borders and seam blends.
Now, I suspect that some of you are going to say "just dont use extrusions for seam blends", since I think I've seen a lot of current designers plot out horizontal areas dedicated for seam blends from the beginning. Well, while yes, I now certainly can see why that could be a good idea that might save a lot of headache, that is not a solution for me in this case as my course is already plotted out and I'd rather truck on with my current slow methods with mainly extrusion-style seam blends, than completely restructure absolutely everything. I have been figuring out workarounds here and there for the issues I've ran into so far and think I've come up with a system that will get me through it all eventually, but Im wondering if any of you might know of any better methods or tips that could save a lot of time, in particular possibly some proper method of making really clean 3-way-intersection seam blends like the examples in the picture below. At least I thought it'd be stupid of me not to throw the question out here and see.
Now, I suspect that some of you are going to say "just dont use extrusions for seam blends", since I think I've seen a lot of current designers plot out horizontal areas dedicated for seam blends from the beginning. Well, while yes, I now certainly can see why that could be a good idea that might save a lot of headache, that is not a solution for me in this case as my course is already plotted out and I'd rather truck on with my current slow methods with mainly extrusion-style seam blends, than completely restructure absolutely everything. I have been figuring out workarounds here and there for the issues I've ran into so far and think I've come up with a system that will get me through it all eventually, but Im wondering if any of you might know of any better methods or tips that could save a lot of time, in particular possibly some proper method of making really clean 3-way-intersection seam blends like the examples in the picture below. At least I thought it'd be stupid of me not to throw the question out here and see.