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edge to round

Hello blender gurus

I'm modelling this as an asset for UE. That's almost first "serious" model I'm making.. the problem I'm facing at the moment: can't understand how to round the highlighted edges. Bevel doesn't help much.

An a Subsidiary question: is this topology very bad? It's full of ngons which I don't know how to get rid of now and should I start it all over again? (Hope not)

Thank a lot

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  • $\begingroup$ If you are going to use the model "as is", i.e. no subsurf or beveling etc. then I think this topology might work. If you are planning to subsurf it to get smooth edges or something then most likely you'll need to change the geometry. As for edge - it should be beveled. The reason it didn't work probably is because it created black artifacts of wrongly shaded ngons. $\endgroup$
    – Mr Zak
    Commented Oct 8, 2016 at 18:07
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    $\begingroup$ Bevel probably doesn't work because you have ngons in your geometry. Ngongs are bad not only for game assets. You might want to upload your file to blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com for further inspection and then post the given link into your question. $\endgroup$
    – metaphor_set
    Commented Oct 8, 2016 at 23:06

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For a game asset unfortunately yes, it sounds like you have a bad topology, it's very NGon heavy, and should ideally be mostly quad based.

You don't necessarily have to start over from scratch, although cleaning up bad topology from a model is often more work than just doing it well from the start.

I'd go with a topology roughly like this, which should bevel well without unexpected results

enter image description here

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    $\begingroup$ Thank you for the answer, I have remodelled as a result :) $\endgroup$
    – Daniel Khoroshko
    Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 18:27

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