What do you mean wen you use the term "poles"? I was under the impression pole was another term for a quad, but many here are presenting them as a negative analagous to tris or N-Gons.

I'm by now means an expert or even decent modeler, but I've tinkered around with 3D apps before and I'm currently getting into Blender. Having a Maya background, I'm finding it EXCEEDINGLY difficult to re-learn to model in Blender, even with video tutorials, the main reason being the lack of N-Gons.

Now before I get flamed, hear me out… The methods used to correct triangles in Blender organinc modeling are kind of mind-boggling to me. It's very helpful to cut only a specific face in half (temporarily creating an N-Gon) then merging a few verts. Triangle GONE! :D But without this capability, it required a multi-step process to get rid of unwanted topology which for me at least, is difficult to visualize.

Any word on when this will be integrated into Blender? This looks like its part of the general re-code everything project that is 2.5, so should we expect B-Mesh in 2.5?

I think all this discussion about N-Gons is pointless : these are an interface feature, which happens to be suitable for demonstration… and suit some users' needs. Speculating on the fact that there will/won't be a way to disable them, that they should be disabled by default for teaching … are also UI considerations : it is just as irrelevant as complaining about the UI of the "make tree from curve" function currently being implemented by Campbell Barton.

When this feature will be implemented, then it will be easy to say to beginners : "Disable N-Gons with button dah-dah" ; it will even be easier "not to" tell them to draw N-Gons, but to draw squares instead… as usual. By the way, good tutorials on topology are difficult to find… (do gurus prefer to write about the ugliness of still non-official features ?).

What I find important is, if they make development easier, then later, our much respected developers will be able to implement more new tools. It means that "some day", there can be more reliable booleans, or a more convenient knife tool, or a really fast way to punch holes in a mesh. That day, we will build statues of Briggs in every city (reference images, someone ?).

I don't think that showing this video does any good. It just demonstrates a totally normal modeling workflow, and apart from the NGons (which everyone seems to complain about), it doesn't show anything new. As it seems like the "ground-breaking" novelty in B-Mesh is just the *implementation*, it's pointless to show a video of it, as many others will think "Uhm, what's so great about it" – just like me at first – because the implementation can't be seen in a video. Better post a bit of technical text :)

"The point of the matter is, having the option of NGons is better than not having it at all."
-Azrael Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:59 am on Blender.org