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vertices with 5 edge lines. bad?

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#1

hello everyone,

now that i covered my workflow i want to optimize my mesh before adding detail in zbrush.

how bad are vertices with more/less edge lines than 4. i got a couple of them with 3 and a few with 5 and more edge lines.

is that something i get away with?

thanks

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#2

You can get away with it, but it can cause dimples to appear in your mesh when divided. Those can be smoothed out afterward, so it’s not a game-breaker. But you are better off trying to avoid such points if at all possible.

#3

thanks!

#4

You’ll never be able to get rid of all of them anyways, but as aurick said try not to have too many of them. It’s more of a hassle when you are doing facial rigging and the vertex doesn’t know where to go, or when you create a blendshape you’ll have a hard time because that vertex is hard to control. Try as much as you can to keep them where there are less deformation.