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Dec 17, 2021 at 6:56 comment added Gordon Brinkmann @mqbakamqbaka Well, yeah as I said in the comment above I just cared for the top face when I wrote the answer. Of course you can cut down to the bottom.
Dec 17, 2021 at 5:38 comment added mqbaka mqbaka This is the method I was talking about, you just created an extra vertex instead of creating a loopcut.
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:51 comment added Gordon Brinkmann If you were not to split anything, of course you will never get an all quad topology. It's like mathematics, if x is odd, you have to take x + 1 or x - 1 to get an even number. It can never be anyway else. So I'm quite sure if there is a tutorial that showed this, it will surely be by changing the geometry in some way. That's what retopology is all about. Creating a new/different mesh to achieve certain goals like all quads. Divding the n-gon at the top is also splitting geometry to get quads, no matter if it was an even number of vertices.
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:41 comment added MikoCG yea but if you cut it all the way down, then you will have even cylinder with 6 verts :D only with one side split in two, well, nevermind
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:34 comment added Gordon Brinkmann As you said yourself in the comments below the question, it depends on what you want to do with your mesh. And if you take the method I pictured above there is neither a 5-gon nor a triangle. (Okay, that one cylinder side is a 5-gon, but just because I didn't care for the side, only for the top. If I cut the side down to the bottom I'll get two quads as well. Maybe I'll change the pic.)
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:31 comment added MikoCG yes but now I cannot decide if it is better to get 1 5gon or 1 triangle as result
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:29 comment added Gordon Brinkmann Retopology sometimes involves creating new edges or vertices where there were none before. It still keeps the shape of a five-sided cylinder. Look at sites with topology guides, there are sometimes edges split to get a quad.
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:24 comment added MikoCG I mean that's even number because you had to add once vert at the loop edge to accomplish this, without making extra 5-gon at the side, there is no way you could do this, you can always do this in many ways with even number of vertices
Dec 16, 2021 at 9:21 history answered Gordon Brinkmann CC BY-SA 4.0