Blender Tutorial: Creating Weld Joints

In this tutorial, you will be learning how to create a messy weld joint using sculpting and displacement. Weld joints are on many metal vehicles and architectural structures, so it's good to know a quick way to create them.
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[spunkykangaroo]

It's true that you could use a normal map, or you could bake out the weld joint to a normal map, but the seam created is for high-poly models. It's better to have actual mesh displacement when possible because it looks better than a normal map.

[sebmeister]

Very nice tutorial. Seems perfect for welds on exhausts or things alike

[spunkykangaroo]

It's a bit harder to control the amount of detail/topology density with dynamic topology which would mess up the displacement.

[BraedenLaverty]

Dynamic topology creates triangles which can be an issue for many reasons.

[ErebosGR]

Or instead of adding all that geometry (considering you have to do it to all the seams and joints), you just do it through the normal maps.