Since this is a 3 year old thread it might be worth noting that since Graphite Modeling tools where added to 3dsmax there have been a variety of ways to select polygons based on different parameters. One of those being equal to, greater than or less than the number of sides specified.
Hi there, I'm in the midst of trying to take a very detailed organic sub-d mesh and clean up the topology so it can be taken into Mudbox. What I really need is a (preferably free) plugin/tool that can highlight any tris or n-gons within the mesh, so I can go in and quad those areas before importing them to Mudbox. I used…
Illusion Catalyst can also do this also with a tool called "Select n-gon". It has a spinner for the number of tris allowed per polygon. You can also do this without plug-ins or scripts by adding a "turn to poly" modifier and set the min number of tris per poly to force it divide polygons by the max number of edges. Since…