Hand/Wrist Topology Help

stitchshift

Hello Everyone,

I have a bit of a conundrum with the hand topology of my most recent model. I have squared away everything else about this model but this issue is nagging away at me and I want to make sure its not a problem before I rig this character.

Basically I took this hand from another model and placed it onto my Benjamin character. The flow of geometry was slightly different so I pointed a couple of the polygons inwards keeping things 4 sided but lets just say different...

I am wondering how this will affect the bending of the wrist if at all. To explain what I am talking about more clearly I have attached some images to this post...

I have marked the inward facing poly's in red... These allowed me to connect a 12 sided polygon hand to a 10 sided polygon jacket.

I am just wondering if this will mess up the rigging at all or make the hand curl ridiculous.

Thanks again!

oglu

why not stick the hands into the jacket, without connecting..? are there restrictions from your engine..?

stitchshift

Erm well I just assumed for Rigging purposes that it was simpler to have the hands attached... I have a sleeve to consider.... Would having the hands separate work?

stitchshift

This guy isn't for an engine either... its for an animated short...

oglu

on a real person those are two different parts... so the best is to do it also in cg as two parts... and a forearm twist is much easier to do if you have two meshes...

stitchshift

okay ill split the hands off and clean it up then Thank you Very much