Avoid this kind of error in sub-d modeling?

chopsuey

Hi, this is a recurring problem and I don't even know if it has a known technical name and if it's easily avoidable. For example here on this rather simple model, I tried many different things but I can't get a decent result.

pior

Here are one hundred and eighty one pages dedicated to just that :

https://polycount.com/discussion/56014/how-the-f-do-i-model-this-reply-for-help-with-specific-shapes-post-attempt-before-asking/p181

wilson66

This is not good topology for that kind of shape. Do it like this instead:

chopsuey

@wilson66 I asked my question on the right topic https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2778999/#Comment_2778999

and I got good answers but you propose here something different which seems to me very interesting, thanks !