Spring Clean Challenge: Developing WWII infantry for 3D printing
Polygroups
Feeling confident that this process would work I decided to download the British Infantryman. For less than the price of a pint in your local London boozer I picked up this plucky chap.
Something I hadn’t thought to check on the previous model was whether it was made up of separate Polygroups. Switching the view mode on the new model I was happy to discover that it was divided into many different areas of topology. This is delineated by the different colours in this set of images.
Polygroups are, as one might expect, groups of polygons set to a common purpose. This essentially divides a model into sections that can be easily isolated. This is particularly useful for me here as I am able to remove entire parts of the model such as the helmet and pack, giving me more options not only in how the figure looks but in how I work with it.
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