Skills Test Answers - 3D Modeling

There are at least two ___ in every quad.

triangles
squares
degrees
points



Which of the following materials does not have specular?

Anisotropic
Blinn
Phong
Phong E
Lambert



How many vertices are the minimum required to create a polygon?

5
2
3
4
1



When modeling for 3D printing, which of the following can't be in the mesh?

Subdivisions
Surface normals
Overlapping edges
Ambient occlusion



What is the name of the imaginary line that is perpendicular to the surface of a polygon?

Normal
Foci
Abnormal
Nurb



What is an ngon?

An edge with no vertices
A polygon with more than 4 edges
A polygon with 2 edges
A vertex in the middle of a mesh



Modeling vehicles, tables, and buildings falls under what modeling category?

Strong form
Subdivision
Inflexible surface
Hard surface



When formatting your model for 3D printing, which of these increases with more mass?

Cost of model
Printing time
All of these
Time of production



A four-sided polygon is known as what?

Tri
Quad
Square
Ngon



Which function is used to pivot a line, face, or mesh along an axis?

Addition
Joining
Circling
Rotation



When adding materials to an object, which mapping coordinate system allows the most control for adding graphics such as labels?

UV
Global
Cubic
Spherical



Which is not considered an industry standard software for 3d Modeling

Maya
Cinema4D
Poser
3D Studio Max
Zbrush



Which of these files is acceptable for 3D printing?

.stl
.tif
.png
.gif



True or False? If there isn't enough definition in the low poly model, it won't be able to correctly project the high poly model onto itself.

False
True



Which rendering function creates shadows based on the proximity of geometry in 3d space using global illumination?

Dimming
Ambient Occlusion
Shading
Diffusion



When modeling for animation, which of these is important to consider?

All of the above
Joint deformation
Poly flow
Poly count



What is the name of a closed ring of edges around part of a mesh?

Polyflow
Poly loop
Ring
Edge loop



Pulling out a shape from another curve, edge, or polygon is called what?

Pulling
Stretching
Extending
Extrusion



Cubes, Pyramids, Cylinders, and cones are most commonly called what?

3D primitives
3D shapes
Acute primitives
Base angles



NURBS have surfaces that are which of these?

Rough
Scattered
Spotted
Smooth



True or False: a Boolean operation can be used to combine two meshes into one, contiguous mesh.

True
False



What is texture baking?

Rendering an animation.
Projecting details down from the High polygon model, onto a texture that can be applied to the Low-polygon model.
Applying a "bake deformer", that expands the mesh.



What is the study of physical shapes and spaces?

Ptolemy
Physiognomy
Topology
Morphology



What does HDRR stand for?

Hard Drive Risk Removal
High Definition Rotation Reel
High Dynamic Range Render
High Density Range Resistance



Which of these is a planar template used to guide accurate modeling?

Alpha Channel
Window
Grid
Panel Display



Which of these is a 3D file?

.fb2
.flac
.fbx
.flv



Which function creates an exact replica of a line, face, or mesh?

Duplication
Division
Dissection
Dumping



Which of these number of triangles is considered low poly?

1 million
2 million
50, 000
500



True or False: when modeling for 3D printing, it is ok to have open edges.

True
False



Which of these is a modeling technique?

All of these
Edge modeling
Subdivision modeling
NURBS modeling



Which function is used to break down a face into smaller faces of equal area?

Collide
Subdivide
Devise
Coincide



Which function replicates and reverses mesh attributes across an axis?

Squaring
Simulating
Mirroring
Copying



Affixing a texture to the surface of an object is called which of the following?

UV Mapping
VU Mapping
UV Scanning
VT Scaling



Which of these modes only consists of lines, edges, and curves?

Texture
Shading
Sculpt
Wireframe



What is the name for the point at the end of an edge?

Dowel
Torus
Vertex
Corner



True or false: it is important to consider poly flow when modeling for games.

True
False



A 3D modeler should consider which of the following when creating a render?

Perspective
Lighting
Scale
All of these



Which term means to unchoose?

Remove
Deselect
Downgrade
Demystify



By definition, two of what forms a line segment?

Pins
Points
Buttons
Dashes



The D in 3D stands for which of the following?

Direction
Dimension
Design
Dictation



3D Modelers are found in which industry?

Product Design
Visual Effects
Architecture
All of these



Which of the following will cause a polygon to be invisible to a render?

Too many vertices
Fixed-point vertex
Flipped normals
Overlapped edges



What is another name for a line that can be curved using control points?

Splinter
Spike
Spline
Spleen



The revolution of what kind of profile would result in the creation of a sphere?

Line
Square Wave
Half-circle
Elipse
Rectangle



NURBS means:

Natural Untrimmed Radial Boolean Spline
Natural Uniform Radial Bezier Spline
Normalized United Revolving Brush Sketch
Non Uniform Rational Basis Spline



Which of these is most likely to cause shading issues?

Quads
Edgeloops
N-Gons
Splines



When subdividing once, a quad polygon is typically split into how many parts?

2
6
3
1
4



Which of these objects is formed by intersecting perpendicular lines?

Nurb
Lattice
Bezier
Torus



Which type of polygons are best to use for soft deformation?

Quads
N-gons
Nurbs
Tris



In order to properly project a high poly onto a low poly, any 90 degree angles must be ___.

flipped
beveled
extruded
scaled



A tri-mesh can't be used for:

Animation
Smooth Surfaces
Hard Surfaces
Sub-D Modeling



For game modeling, ___ count is the most common number to consider.

poly
tri
edge
mesh



In which shaded view port mode is faster to work and model in big scenes, when you have low performance video card?

Wireframe viewport mode
Object color shaded viewport mode
material color shaded viewport mode
Edget faces viewport mode