Hard surface modeling. Topology rules

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If it's hard surface, don't worry about an all quads policy on your mesh. It's a nice challenge for all of us modelers to attain the holy grail of perfect all quad topology, but the time spent on this is better spent actually working on your mesh ;)
It will subdivide better so keep an eye on non quad topology on your hard surface by smoothing your mesh from time to time and see how it's working out, but don't fret about it too much!

And no, there's no problems with texturing/uv mapping/rendering with non quads ( maybe uv mapping, it's harder to select a seam if the flow is interrupted, but that's not that big of an issue)

( P.S: zbrush 4 now seems to handle tris and ngons much better than in previous versions. I just loaded an obj with two tris, and when i subdivided it there was no weird pinching or sculpting problems around them. I thought that was pretty cool)

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