Topology issues

Erwannd2d

Hey all, 
So i'm just practising some Hardsurface modeling and I was wondering what would be the best way to connect the vertexes on this to get rid of those shader problems.

Obscura

One nice and clean way is to use a much more divided cylinder that has enough edges to not need to connect those to the corners.

musashidan

Are you polymodeling or sub-d modeling?

Erwannd2d

Seems pretty straightforward although let's say in term of polycount I want to keep things the same, how would that work out ? 

Erwannd2d

musashidan said:

Are you polymodeling or sub-d modeling?

I may seem noobie but I don't know the difference between the two XD 

Eric Chadwick

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling

musashidan

Polygonal modeling is straight modeling with surface shading based on hard/soft edges or smoothing groups (wysiwyg) and sub-division modeling is modeling with the intent of using a smoothing algorithm that results in hard/soft forms based on either creasing or control/in line edgeloops on the cage mesh. In game asset modeling they would often be the low and high poly repectively.

kanga

I dont think you have allocated smoothing groups to the model. At the far left side I see the polys that should be on one plane/in one group. Only where you want a hard line set the polys in a different groip. If you are going to bake a normal map set everything in one group and bake.

Erwannd2d

kanga said:

I dont think you have allocated smoothing groups to the model. At the far left side I see the polys that should be on one plane/in one group. Only where you want a hard line set the polys in a different groip. If you are going to bake a normal map set everything in one group and bake.

Yeah definetly will do that