Become a Topology PRO with these Five Tips 

Lord bless you ❤

I remember when i discovered i could lock axes. Felt like a million bucks.

I love the blender community man thank you so much

Except his philosophy is all wrongheaded and founded on the idea that poles are OK but tris are bad, which is just plain backwards.

Aren't tris bad most of the time?

@@mrlightwriter Though engines like Unreal have their own solutions for quads, any game engine will transform any mesh you throw at it to tris meaning it doesn't matter for the most part, poles aka ngons are bad bc the game engine doesn't know how to deal with them as it can only deal with quads/tris so if you don't place them in flat topology they may be imported wrong bc the engine didn't know how to convert the ngons to tris and did it wrong.

This way is better than my suggestion.

Elaborate?

Agree, but he missed 2 Edge Loops on Subdivision, so I will note what best, what not.

​@@thepseudowhiteokay, then. Show me how it's done.

You are welcome!

Yeah ctrl snapping is great. I use it constantly. It works in object mode too, if you want to align objects with another surface. 👍

For some reason when I'm doing this the snapping works weird. It snaps, but not with the vertices, it remains a little crooked on the Y axis

you can snap with ctrl what? WHAT??

But pressing G three times is just the same as only pressing it once!!!

@threadlington3430 no it isn't. Pressing it once just moves, which warps the texture. Twice is slide mode. Three times is free-form slide

@MonsterJuiced It really is not! There is no third mode. "g" to freely rransform. "gg" to go to edge slide mode. Pressing g a third time just goes back to free transform. There is not an extra mode! (Edit - I was wrong. There is a third press of g which works as the tip says!)

@@threadlington3430 But there is though I use it. Do you have loop tools plugin enabled? I'll check what allows me to do it because this thing has been a life saver for me for the past few months

@@threadlington3430 I think youtube removed my comment because it has a link in it. Trying again: watch?v=ZyrZZqpbFNA That video will show you the third G option

That’s only if the model stays in Blender. If you need to bring it into other softwares, the creased parts will not look creased in other softwares.

For which circumstances you use them most? Which would be the recommended moment to use them? Truly curious noob here.

@carlosfranca2602 Howdy carlos. There are some cubic forms (like dice with rounded faces) which use 6-spoked piles on the corners. When extruding a checkerboard arrangement of inset faces they are the best topology and they are the only sensible topology available when 3 axes are extruded in 3 separate directions (happens all the time). There is one type of sphere - kind of half way between a uv sphere and a quadsphere which uses them too. They do crop up occasionally(normally on corner of less than 90 degree angles which use them very efficiently too. Their usage is generally a little more advanced but sometimes they are the best solution!

i've just started out myself, but from the many mistakes i already made, i noticed that having quads is good because there won't be weird unnecessary sharp edges when you subdivide it, and if you decide to transform quads into tris at some point, it won't cause that problem either. i think they're just good because they make way for clean and smooth surfaces, plus what you said about easier application of materials

Why do you think that's rubbish?

@@8p8c50sometimes it isn’t worth the effort. Like in hard surface modeling, it’s not AS important, especially if you’re just modeling a quick concept. Soft body modeling and “final drafts” of hard surface modeling should definitely prioritize quads though. Working with quads is generally easier. Tldr, quads are more or less important depending on the case, so you shouldn’t rip your hair out over every little tri or ngon. That being said, quads can make a major impact.

​@@8p8c50 some times triangls give me less shading issues than quads

sometimes you specifically need to arbitrarily declare where the quad should fold otherwise youll get inconsistent results in mesh deformation or game engine imports, different programs interpret triangulation differenly, which isnt a problem if your quads are flat. but sometimes it cannot be that way. and creating quads with vertices too close to one another is a recipe for clipping and z-fighting. i had it once where I had to do this for a low poly chips bag for it to be smooth throughout towards the corners

what are poles

No it's not.

@@ianmcglasham im genuinely curious what the difference is. I learned it in blender, but transferred to maya for work. Maya doesn't have an inset function, so I've been using extrudes exclusively and cant think of a case where it didn't work

@Levi_Zacharias it's a complicated area! An inset is the scaling of new vertices relative to the individual vertex normals of a periimiter (or to the average of the normals of attached edges when edge rail is used but it would cloud this already complex discussion too much for a quick answer!) Whereas an extrude and scale calculates the new positions of extruded vertices In relation to the median of the area selected. Consider taking all of the faces of the letter "S" and insetting them. A border will be created with new edges travelling along the original vertex normals. Now consider extruding and then scaling these faces. It doesn't work because of changes of direction around the shape. Maya handles it bizarrely by having the offset option in extrude, but it is not nearly as powerful as blenders method. Max can do it but maya cannot. In advanced modelling it becomes really important to understand the various methods of insetting and there are some clever ways of forcing blender to do a hybrid of the two by creating temporary angular non manifold constructs which force overflow conditions in the code. As I said, it is complicated!!! I'll make a video at some point!

@@Levi_Zacharias Practical difference: Insets may apply to individual faces. Extrude applies to all. Imagine a cylinder: select all its faces. You can inset them all together, effectively creating a thinner cylinder, OR, inset them on individual mode, effectively creating a ribbed Greek-column-thing

If I didn't use Blender before I would have definitely had an idea what you are talking.

Quads aren't as important as the edge loops themselves but this only applies for "organic" movement, background/props or anything inorganic can use any kind of topology for the most part.

what if you have a square texture that you want to put on the cylinder without much distortion? (that's the only use case i can possibly think of)

Yes, that's another way to make a triangle fan cap.

Set snapping to vertex and hold ctrl

I made a video about that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PvKzBThEsBM.html

@@DECODEDVFX you're the man! Thanks!