problem w/ subdiv surfaces (modelling character)

[Finkster]

You could try killing the 4 surrounding polygons, then rebuild them point by point.

[milqman]

tried that, when rebuilt it still does it

[milqman]

nm. fixed it

[scotttygett]

This seems to be getting into a really important thing that has been in my head way too much.

Point order and sub-d.

I took out the inventory heads, selected all the non-quad polygons, and created brute quads out of them, but one half had a mess, while the other was peachy. Same quads on both sides.

Is there a thread around here about some cute tricks like selecting points in the vicinity and doing the "shift ]" or some other way of seeing this coming or otherwise handling it without a lot of trial and error? If there isn't, that's cool too.

Scott

[Ayreon]

looks like some unwelded points. Usually you can just try a merge (m) or unify polygons (shift-i).

[Zarathustra]

Ayreon beat me to it. That's exactly what it looks like. Sometimes the points are not quite close enough for a straight merge, so you have to enter a range and just keep increasing the range until they finally merge.

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by Zarathustra
Sometimes the points are not quite close enough for a straight merge, so you have to enter a range and just keep increasing the range until they finally merge.

How do you change the range for merging? All I do it hit "m" and it merges or it doesn't...I never get a choice for range or anything.

[Zarathustra]

click 'fixed' in the merge points window.
See the box now for distance? That's what I meant. I just wasn't using the correct terminology.

[scotttygett]

That's such a keen feature. I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't realize it was there.

Thanks

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