WEBVTT 00:00.360 --> 00:06.600 In this lesson, let's take a look at the more complicated example of going from an area of even numbered 00:06.600 --> 00:11.790 to an area of odd no edge loops somewhere to hide this even no example. 00:11.790 --> 00:19.260 We've already done and create a new example by creating two planes and dragging them side by side here 00:20.250 --> 00:20.970 and. 00:21.950 --> 00:31.070 Then making one of them be nine instead of ten, and we can combine these as we did mesh combine. 00:32.560 --> 00:45.760 Edit delete by type history, and I'll call this odd odd numbers and let's begin merging these edges 00:45.760 --> 00:46.120 down. 00:46.360 --> 00:52.300 It's going to go right click and go to edge and when I click drag select all of these. 00:54.520 --> 00:57.820 And go to and eMESH. 01:00.280 --> 01:00.880 Merge. 01:03.200 --> 01:07.100 And now we get to the issue, how do we resolve this one? 01:07.220 --> 01:13.170 This is a more complicated puzzle and it's going to take a little more problem solving. 01:13.190 --> 01:15.490 I'm going to you can try this by yourself. 01:15.500 --> 01:21.770 You can pause the video and try to figure this out, how to merge these lines down with no triangles 01:21.770 --> 01:24.830 and no Englands meaning no five sided faces. 01:25.370 --> 01:30.640 Or you can just follow along and I'll show you the answer of doing it one way right now. 01:31.460 --> 01:34.790 So we need to approach this and kind of a different way. 01:34.790 --> 01:40.450 We need to resolve the issue back here and then there'll be another solution here. 01:40.460 --> 01:46.090 So so we need to reduce the number of edges back here so then we can solve the problem up here. 01:46.150 --> 01:53.750 OK, so I'm going to go to the multicar tool and I'm going to make some new loops here. 01:54.470 --> 01:59.630 If I hold shift and click, I'll get to the middle of the. 02:00.580 --> 02:08.230 Edge and er, so I've divided this in Korean and gone over here, so to resolve the end gone, I need 02:08.230 --> 02:08.800 to. 02:10.260 --> 02:16.770 Make this a quote again and create an edge here, and when we solve this problem now, we create another 02:16.770 --> 02:18.480 one that we have triangles here. 02:18.540 --> 02:20.430 Well, it's not that big of a deal. 02:20.430 --> 02:21.810 I can actually just delete those. 02:22.050 --> 02:22.780 So I'm going to. 02:22.950 --> 02:28.830 So I'm going to go to these edges and shift select them both holding down shift. 02:29.550 --> 02:29.820 Right. 02:29.820 --> 02:31.230 Click and go to delete edge. 02:32.650 --> 02:35.700 OK, so now we have a new problem. 02:35.880 --> 02:39.090 We have an odd number still. 02:39.120 --> 02:39.410 Right. 02:39.420 --> 02:41.730 We have one going into two. 02:42.030 --> 02:43.510 So how do we solve this problem? 02:43.620 --> 02:48.840 Well, let's whenever I'm problem solving, I just try to move forward and then see where the problem 02:48.840 --> 02:50.220 arises and how I can fix it. 02:50.220 --> 02:54.480 Kind of at the the last possible moment, I'm going to stay in this edge mode. 02:54.950 --> 02:56.550 I'm going to merge these down. 03:00.260 --> 03:03.660 And kind of forced the issue here. 03:03.730 --> 03:08.700 OK, so what method do we have at our disposal to resolve this? 03:09.950 --> 03:13.490 Let's try pulling this over and merging these vertices over here. 03:13.490 --> 03:15.860 So I'll hold down V and middle mouse drag. 03:16.700 --> 03:20.330 You can see I'm isolated to this translation so it won't snap. 03:20.330 --> 03:25.880 So let me isolate it by clicking in the center here and now it will snap. 03:27.350 --> 03:29.780 I need to merge those vertices, the right on top of each other. 03:30.020 --> 03:31.130 They're not merged yet. 03:31.130 --> 03:35.150 So I need to go to merge after I click and drag both of them. 03:35.990 --> 03:38.240 I have to worry about the threshold because they're right on top of each other. 03:39.080 --> 03:41.030 So everything's merged now, right? 03:41.480 --> 03:43.310 Except the problem is we have a triangle here. 03:44.120 --> 03:46.010 So how do we resolve the triangle? 03:46.130 --> 03:48.830 Well, we can try to make it a quad in some way. 03:48.860 --> 03:50.420 What's the easiest way to make something? 03:50.420 --> 03:50.870 A quad? 03:51.560 --> 03:54.020 Let's try to add another loop. 03:54.240 --> 03:59.000 OK, so we get we could do this for the multicar tool or we could go over to our custom shelf and use 03:59.000 --> 04:05.580 an edge loop and the loop will show you the issue right there won't be able to continue at a triangle. 04:05.600 --> 04:10.880 So when we click here, it's going to stop at the triangle and that indicates a it's a triangle. 04:10.880 --> 04:13.280 And B, maybe this is how we're going to solve the issue. 04:14.090 --> 04:15.290 So I'll let go. 04:15.560 --> 04:20.180 And now when we look, it is it is a quad. 04:20.180 --> 04:23.240 We have no N guns and we have all quads. 04:23.270 --> 04:28.750 The only issue is that we had to add a new edge loop. 04:28.940 --> 04:32.390 So in a model that you have, it's fairly large. 04:32.390 --> 04:35.150 This could create issues up here somewhere. 04:35.240 --> 04:38.420 You know, now you have a higher density of envelope's up here. 04:38.750 --> 04:41.810 So you could be just pushing the problem up higher. 04:42.650 --> 04:45.320 But it's an area that you could, you know, solve. 04:45.350 --> 04:47.240 Let's figure out how to solve this and reduce this. 04:48.560 --> 04:50.240 We've done this before, right? 04:50.270 --> 04:52.280 We have three and we're trying to get back to one. 04:52.490 --> 04:58.640 So let's scale these vertices down and select all three and merge them. 05:00.600 --> 05:07.290 We'll go to edit Meche merge now we have two triangles again, and how do we solve that? 05:07.860 --> 05:12.630 By deleting their sinter edge to make sure I only have that one selected holding down shift right. 05:12.630 --> 05:14.070 Clicking Good to delete EDG. 05:15.090 --> 05:18.540 Now we resolve the issue that's not super clean, right? 05:18.540 --> 05:27.340 Like it doesn't look super clean, but it is all Quad's and we've solved the problem. 05:27.540 --> 05:29.910 Now this we could solve this much higher up. 05:29.910 --> 05:36.030 So all of this kind of oddly flowing topology won't necessarily have to be in the same area. 05:36.450 --> 05:41.640 And you could maybe hide this in like an armpit or somewhere that is not very visible to a model. 05:42.090 --> 05:46.770 So you could move this solution somewhere in the model that's not visible to the viewer. 05:47.880 --> 05:54.370 But this is how to do the odd number kind of intersection thing and deal with that topology line flow. 05:54.960 --> 05:59.190 So I hope you had fun figuring out this kind of problem solving thing. 05:59.550 --> 06:02.340 You can find these types of examples all over models. 06:02.340 --> 06:05.700 If you ever look at wire frames of models, you'll be able to see this all over. 06:05.700 --> 06:07.220 You can see triangles right here. 06:07.230 --> 06:10.260 Well, not really triangles, but you can see where the edge flow changes. 06:10.260 --> 06:12.390 It looks like a triangle, but it's really a right. 06:12.390 --> 06:13.440 It has four edges. 06:13.440 --> 06:14.280 So that's a quad. 06:14.640 --> 06:18.420 But you can see where the edges it goes up and around. 06:19.140 --> 06:19.560 Right. 06:19.560 --> 06:21.480 We can see how this starts to flow. 06:22.110 --> 06:26.520 This goes up and around like this instead of going straight through because we can see a star right 06:26.520 --> 06:26.700 here. 06:26.700 --> 06:30.450 We know there's an edge loop kind of change and direction here. 06:30.930 --> 06:34.110 See how this changes directions and it's near that star. 06:34.740 --> 06:35.940 Start to look at this stuff. 06:35.940 --> 06:40.800 When you're looking at wire frames of models, you can kind of see the thought process and the reason 06:40.800 --> 06:45.990 behind they did it because so they did this because, you know, our abs are in the center here. 06:45.990 --> 06:50.610 Maybe they need the topology to be right for the belly button or, you know, this Adam's apple area 06:50.610 --> 06:52.950 is kind of the reverse, you know, upside down version of this. 06:52.950 --> 06:59.580 All of this flows upward so that this person can have an Adam's apple and the topology will support 06:59.580 --> 07:01.170 that shape here. 07:01.170 --> 07:07.200 So start thinking about models in this way and in the next lesson will begin creating our own model 07:07.200 --> 07:13.440 from reference that I'll provide so we can create our own character and keep moving along and learning 07:13.440 --> 07:16.520 how to model and Maya and all the other aspects of Maya. 07:16.530 --> 07:17.130 Thanks for watching.