Converting many faces to one poly?

[mouj]

Hey there,
if you're working with EMesh, then no, no way to treat an area as if the edges were not there, but you can still manage your way around : say you'd need to extrude these faces, they will extrude all together, be there edges or not.

What strikes me is that you could well be working in EPoly, if that suits you better, your pics show only quads. Why then wouldn't you be working in Poly, and in the end if you need to, convert to EMesh; you'll need to do some edge turning then, but then again so far i guess you've been hiding edges to manage quads, all in all it's no big difference to manage your hidden edges while you're modelling or at the end of your modelling session.
If you were using Polys you'd also encounter less problems and have a couple more tools to manage such situations, removing edges, dissolving faces..

Now if you want to keep using Mesh, then you could simply delete the ofending faces, and using the "create" command, create a new face that won't have an hidden edge in the middle.

hope this helps

mouj

[Neox]

in Emesh you just have to hide this edge, in Epoly you just can remove the Edge with the remove(Poly) function, which you should have as a shortcut :)

[Rivendale]

Backspace removes edges( and vertices), but keeps the surface, in Editable poly mode. "Edit triangulation" lets you edit the edges that are not seen.
:)

[SirLankyIII]

Thanks for the help guys :D

Its really appreciated :D

[FabioMSilva]

that part of the tutorial is really badly made. I had the same problem some time ago...in fact i hadnt finished the tutorial since then...aint had time to work on it

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