how to model a football the easy way

this has been discussed a thousand times before but i find this way quite interesting to do a simple football: in 3dsmax, start with a geosphere, icosa type with 3 segments. add the edit poly modifier, go to vertex mode and remove all middle vertices by hand (activate ‘ignore backfacing’ to prevent false selections) to have only 5 sided edges. detach all these in polygon mode and add a meshsmooth with quad output to all of them with 2-3 iterations (you could also re-attach all those elements), use a spherify modifier (100%) then add a face extrude modifier with an amount of about 1.0 and add another meshsmooth, this time the usual nurms mode. et voilà, the only missing thing would be some white and black material, the easy way is to distribute two material channels in the unmodified model and then easily throw a multilayered material on it. have fun virtually kicking this football.

this has been discussed a thousand times before but i find this way quite interesting to do a simple football: in 3dsmax, start with a geosphere, icosa type with 3 segments. add the edit poly modifier, go to vertex mode and remove all middle vertices by hand (activate 'ignore backfacing' to prevent false selections) ...