Quote - OK, didnt read this all, sorry, so just tell me to shut up with dumb ideas.
when rings of different sizes meet I think what you really want to do is NOT calculate a ring of polys, you want to calculate a ring of vertices, and then connect them to the previous ring. That will give you sloping surfaces. Store each ring of vertices in an array and use the last and current arrays. the patter of vertices assigned to each poly will be the same for each ring given the same number of segments in the ring.

its good anyway, can always touch it up in a modeller. Attack of the mutant spiders is now possible :)

That's pretty much the best idea I can come up with, too.  The spacing of vertices, on a ring which borders a smaller ring, will need to change to accommodate the smaller ring.  That will mean changing the UV process, to avoid stretching in the unevenly-spaced areas.  Overall, it doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, but I often assume that, until I get to the implementation.  :lol:  The even spacing is just inherited from the loop-making script, where it makes more sense.

Do you know of a way of arranging the polys, on a "cap" for the "cylinder" of the skin, which will allow all quads, regardless of whether the ring count in the cylinder is even or odd?  I can't come up with one.  Spent a few hours working on diagrams and there were always tris somewhere.  Hmm.  Nothing against triangles, per se.  I 'm just really puzzled now, wondering if there's a configuration which will allow full quad-capping.

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