modeling: ngons, how to detect

[coffeepenguin]

You could apply a meshsmooth and then look for irregualrities in your mesh. Look for something like five pollies sharing one vertex, that spot on the unmeshsmoothed model will probably have an n-gon.

[lostpencil]

That's sort of what I was planning, but I was wondering if Max had a Lightwave-ish selector that allowed you to select 2 point polys, 3 point, 4 point and > 4 point... Maybe there is a script out there... I haven't checked that possibility. Thanks for the reply.

[ijinn]

Originally posted by LFShade
There's also a great script by Grant Adam called PolySelections. It lets you define the criteria by which to select polygons, so you can select just tris, or just polys with 5 sides, etc. You can also use it to select verts that share n faces, which is great for weeding out the poles in your model.

RH

[lostpencil]

Perfect. That did the trick. Thanks RH!

[markdc]

Originally posted by ijinn


http://members.optushome.com.au/ghra/scripts.htm

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