{"id":107,"date":"2024-07-19T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2024-07-19T22:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:47:43","slug":"how-the-hell-do-i-open-these-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"How the hell do I open these doors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer: A bunch of number keys and a non-de-script knob<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now I see how damn clean that scroll wheel guard is and I hate it…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Past week I spent time making a keypad for the doors in one of my previous posts. This guy took some doing: specifically because 1.) I didn’t know that grids in blender existed and 2.) the coloring on the keys made me anxious every-time I tried to make something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the greybox: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a bunch of iterations here but the three main things were having a keypad, a indication LED and a screen. My hope is to hook this baby up to the doors i made previously to have a quick key code minigame thing in unreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By far the hardest part was making not the keypad keys but the plate that would go in between the keys and surround them. One of the biggest things I always try to prevent when using blender is having any issues with normals. Usually it’s hard to come by them if you model in a proper manner (which can be summarized to: always make quad faces.). However, in this case I thought I could use a boolean modifier to make the plate which turned out pretty bad:
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With the keys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Without the keys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see here the whole face is messed up however in blender things were looking fine. I don’t have an image for what it looked like but basically it was the keyholes with a subtraction modifier then beveled. Here’s quick demo of what I did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 1. make a bunch of cubes, add an x and z array modifier to each then apply.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Step 2: add a difference modifier to the plate mesh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Step 3, select all of the forward face, the ctrl+b and bevel that<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now there’s some disconnect because if you pull this into substance (I didn’t do this with the demo) all hell breaks loose and your normals are thrown into a rock tumbler to get that keypad image above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However I got past it by using the now holy grid:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise be to the grid baby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Which is a bit more painful for inital creation because you have to line it up with your keys but once you do it’s just a quick insert faces, then delete command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty much that, assume there are perfect squares infront of each face, then I deleted each key face ans solidified + beveled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But anyways It seems to look fine in game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The knob doesn’t have the notches I want, but I can easily make the screen look like it’s on with emissives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty cool, now I gotta hook it up and import the new doors to start fleshing out this building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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