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White Knight

05-17-2006, 08:57 AM

I'm cleaning up my model a bit but I find it really hard to get rid of triangles, n-gons and "five-poly-vertices"(poles).

Is here anything written upon this subject? Any tutorials concering this?

I know it's not always necassary to have only quads but sometimes you see these perfect-looking models containing all quads. What are the tricks?
How do they do it??

toontje

05-17-2006, 04:44 PM

Removing triangles is not that hard. I don't know about N-gons.
Anyway, for an in depth discussion on this topic you should check out this thread:

http://www.subdivisionmodeling.com/forums/showthread.php?t=907

AND on this site there are a lot of usefull tips and some videos about this topic:
http://3dwisdoms.blogspot.com/

Hope I was of any help :)

White Knight

05-18-2006, 09:33 AM

Rod Seffen

05-18-2006, 11:32 PM

There's nothing perfect about a model becasue it only contains quads. Don't waste any time trying to achive only quads, it's a minor technicality. There's nothing wrong with a few triangles, but n-gons aren't good since all apps don't support them.
Triangles do not always cause smoothing problems or creases depending on how and where you use them.

zachlantow

05-19-2006, 04:39 AM

I totally agree, triangles and pole verts are very very helpful in places. Just dont model the entire thing with pole verts or tris.

Rod Seffen

05-19-2006, 01:01 PM

..unless you're doing a model for a game engine of course, in which case it all has to be conveted to triangles anyway, so there's even less point in getting upset about it.

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