The proper way to bevel? (On a cylinder)

JamieRain · Oct 2015

Whenever I bevel I end up with either pinching or some odd butterfly. I been at this for HOURS.

The 'shape' in general.

If there is some tutorial on how to perfect the beveling tool I would greatly appreciate a link. I love me some 3d knowledge!

Many thanks.

-Jamie.

Shogun3d · Oct 2015

Here check this out

http://imgur.com/a/dEWXP

Scruples · Oct 2015

Kind of hard to see the issue without it all being one smoothing group.

clinington · Oct 2015

Excellent link from Shogun3d. More links here that might be of use:

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

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014

JamieRain · Oct 2015

Thanks for the links fellas. I'm going to post something soon. I think from the links I'm supposed to use the edge loops from the primitive as the supporting loops instead of beveling across on the cylinder. I think it might be working. I'll post back to see what I get. Previously I would get severe pinching when I would ADD edge loops as supporting loops.

JamieRain · Oct 2015

Okay so I got this so far. Is the topology okay? I got rid of the pinching on the back end by cutting out a support loop but I did have to use a tri at the corner. I got this from the links mentioned above. I was able to stop the pinching around the curving but now I feel the problem is with the topology in the back (flat surface) but Im not sure. Feel free to say anything to help me out here.

A close up of the corner topo where the tri is at.

closer view at the back part where I think I messed up the topo.

Tzur_H · Oct 2015

Your triangles are on a flat surface, it doesn't make any difference.

As for the topology, if this is a high poly that will then be baked down to a low poly you shouldn't care too much about the topology. Only the end result matters.
If it looks good without any noticeable pinching or other artifacts, you're good to go. Trying to make a completely quad mesh for the high poly is just a waste of time in my opinion. You're going to retopo it and bake into a lower res mesh anyway, on the lower res mesh you should be more careful about the topology *if it's going to be deformed*.

Just one thing about your model, the edges where the cut is are super sharp, I'd soften the bevels a bit.

The proper way to bevel? (On a cylinder)

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