Best topology for tubes/circles

john0x

Hey, I've been wondering what the best topology for a tube cap or a circle in general is.
I have searched the web of course, before coming here, but I didn't really find a correct answer. A lot of websites suggest different things, so I'm kinda confused



This is what I currently have.

skyline5gtr

What exactly do you mean? It depends what your end goal is, is this HP or LP ? Will this be baked so on and so forth 

Joopson

Personally, when baking anyway, what I do is extrude the cap inward, to create support edge, and then I cap it in a pretty standard way, like this:



I find that it supports the shapes, without showing that gross pole pinching/fanning you sometimes get, if you don't have the support loop.

But as skyline said, there's a million ways to do it, and a bunch of different situations where one may be better than the other. There was a thread recently about it, actually, now that I think of it: http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2533317/#Comment_2533317

john0x

Thank you guys
I mean for both. A highpoly which gets baked onto a lowpoly.

@Joopson
Thanks, I'll take a look at that thread