Bringing Edges together

Haftoof

Does anyone have any decent resources for managing edges (edge loops) while adding detail and tieing objects together?

Where is it appropriate and how would you go about collapsing multiple edges into a singular edge (generally causes triangles)? Should you hide those triangles in crevases?

Or should you be looking to rebuild the edge topology and fix it there vs collapsing edges. How do you deal with it in high poly? Or is it that you start low poly then sub-divide to get to high poly for detail?

Obscura

Collapse the verts instead of the edges.or select the two edges and use "bridge" if we are talking about Max.

Haftoof

So merge the vertices, how does one know whether tris are okay vs changing topology to get back to quads? are there any good rules for when to use tris? how to switch back to quads or how to hide tris in topology?

Sardu

Haftoof wrote: »

how to switch back to quads or how to hide tris in topology?

There seems to be an easy way to do this in Blender. Not sure what program you're currently using. I'm not sure about 3DMax or Maya though.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?225323-Converting-Tri-Polys-to-Quad-Polys

Obscura

Triangles are ok if you are using them on a lowpoly model. On a subd highpoly model, not really.What program are you using?

Haftoof

Working in Maya.

Obscura

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EDKXb9x9hY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EDKXb9x9hY[/ame]

Haftoof

Other than that is there any guidance on topology to help deal with mismatched edges when connecting two objects? (IE collapsing two verticies into one then connecting them across objects (so you end up with a tri)?