WHY DOES TOPOLOGY MATTER?

n our Discord, we get many questions about topology from beginners wanting to get into the industry. They ask what it is, why it matters or how to improve. It’s a vast topic, but let’s cover the basics: topology is the organisation or flow of edges on a model. And a good, clean organisation of this matters. From a UV mapping standpoint, clean and quadified geometry makes for easier unwraps. But more importantly, clean topology matters because it’s a quality-of-life concern. Problem-free geometry makes life