I've been using Maya since college in the year 2000 and never heard of this type of problem solving. Too many tutorials are based on making cool stuff and not the technical aspects. Thanks for this!
Tip: Build it by starting out with a flat plane and then bend it with the bend deformer to a cylinder. Start by calculating the circumference of the cylinder (π * the witdh of the cylinder), this is the width of your plane. The height of the plane is just the height of the cylinder. Do all the modeling you like on the plane, extrusions etc, when you’re done, create a bend deformer with the plane selected (deform > non-linear > bend), scale the deformer in xyz so that it matches the width of the plane. Bend 360 degrees. You might have to change the orientation of the deformer by rotating, once you start bending it’s fairly easy the see on the gizmo how it needs to be oriented. When done, make a duplicate of your newly created, detailed cylinder and merge the borders that came together after the bend. Bending this way you ensure that all the detailing ends up as closely as possible to match a cylinder, and it’s sooooooo much easier to build things flat.
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This is incredibly helpful! I struggle a lot with my topography, and never seem to be able to make a detail addition without introducing triangles in some way. Focusing on the technical aspect of how to combine verts to make an all quad mesh with proper edge flow would be super appreciated as you seem to have a solid handle on that. Thank you!
If this surface were spherical it would pinch more.....and the ultimate thing to correct it is to shrink wrap the subdivision to a master clean surface with overall shape :)
Is there a way I can get your preferences and setting for the colours you're using for the selection of edges and faces? I think it looks clean and neat. Also, what materials are you using and how can you set them as defaults for all your projects?
Yeah I hear ya but Maya has Conform under Mesh - Conform. However, this works only if your surface does not have any depth or details like in this case. Also, topology still has to be properly set, more or less. If the mesh has large gaps or imbalance in the spread, the conform tool will still give the same shading issues you see in the video. If there is pinching on the balanced mesh, a conform tool can fix that, sure, especially in combination with Vertex Average or Sculpting Brush. Hope this helps.
