How to stop creases

[Goon]

What version are you using? 10.5 has introduced several new methods, tho below that i think everything just has quality modeling and apply a porcelian material (its on your cd)

[Dearmad]

Buggzy,

I have found excellence in modelling the single best answer to this.

Really knowing where your splines *end* and *pass through* is the first critical element.

Knowing how *parallel* (not just perpendicular) splines are affecting each other- for example when one ends and another continues on in a curve, at that point, you'll typically get what I call a "bulge crease."

Of course watch perpendicular splines too, and try not to have more than two coming or passing through a node, but that's beginner stuff, really, and very simple to avoid with forethought.

Have faith in texturing. *If* you've done your *utmost* to minimize creases in the modeling process, have some faith that when you're finished texturing (WITHOUT resorting to porcelein) about 75% of what you saw will simply not be there anymore (except character faces, of course; in that case most creases get *worse*
:rolleyes: )

Be careful about "conserving" splineage by using hooks. In a few cases hooks make things worse, and you're not really saving much performance by minimizing splines, you're really just showing off jedi-knight splinemanship- sure it's fun and I do it a lot, but splines are *tools* not the enemy. At times taking a spline out solves a problem, but as often adding or keeping one and working with it can be as helpful.

5 point patches on flat surfaces, if you can manage it.

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