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How do find 5 edged shapes easily [Solved]

Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 3:36 pm
by Lorul1
From what i was told five edged shapes can mess up meshes so is there a way to easily search for five edged shapes ?


this post relates to my old one here:
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=31198&p=514216#p514216

Re: How do find 5 edged shapes that messing up my model

Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 4:03 pm
by AceMastermind
Change your Polygon selection filter to N-gon, then rectangle select the whole object and only polygons with 5 sides or more will be selected.
You could also just triangulate the model prior to export, like Epifire was saying in your other thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCMxDtwPl0

Re: How do find 5 edged shapes that messing up my model

Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 6:34 am
by thelegend
My solution I always do (mostly on models which are not too high polyed): Triangulate and then Quadrangulate. There still would be some edges but you could manually remove them by selecting and deleting them.

Re: How do find 5 edged shapes that messing up my model

Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:03 pm
by Lorul1
It worked :D
Thanks guys