help with bridge tool

[schmu_20mol]

if you want to bridge points then you select just the outer points.....e g, you bridge the topleft with the bottomleft and then the topright with the bottomright then the result's a 4sided poly....

by the way F1 is your best friend....

[Stephan]

Don't use the Bridgetool for creating polygones... use the Create Polygon tool.. ;) Klick all 4 Point and that's it...

[Caravaggio]

But that takes twice as many clicks and is hard to do several at a time, at least for me. Why are there two that do almost the same thing...

[LucentDreams]

bridge is more intended for bridging complee polygons while creat polygon does just that, create polygons. I use creat polygon all the time, I constantly dlete tris and replace with quads and such. Try to keep even my highres models optimised.

[l_farley13_l]

Well lost my last reply to a crash, but I personaly really never use create polygon, bridge is fast and easy, of course box modeling is even nicer, but for organics sometimes it's just not a smart choice.

bifftannen - make sure triangulate if ness. is not checked as well.

I use freehand/invert for selecting, for optimiztion; triangulate, swap diagnals (where needed), flatten and untriangulate. Also Stitch and sew can be used to collapse polies.

Extrude edge + knife is by far the fastest way to create polies.

Shortcuts most used : enter (poly to point), I (invert sel.) B (bridge) k (knife) and + ,- grow/shrink sel. Here's a grab of poly/point menus' Hopes this helps you on your way bifftannen

see you,

Farley13

PS Want to start a new thread for this or hijack this one ;)

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