This video will demonstrate a color visualizer that will help us to identify and correct if needed, polygon topology – specifically quads, triangles and ngons. First we click on the Visualizer button and create a Color Visualizer, then set Color Type to Polygon Vertex Count. Note each color that represents each polygon type (yellow for triangles, blue for quads and red for ngons); you can change these colors to different ones if you wish. Then we start dropping in edges to correct the surface topology and see the color visualizer update accordingly! 

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  • jordibares 7 years, 1 month ago  | 

    Thanks for the tutorial, would be great to add a visualizer tag to the entry so it can be easily found when searching for those.

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