My rig is a decade old. ;)

Use Spacedraw to do this kind of things. Inflate function. It's automatic and you make waaaaay more complex tubes and intersections in literally one clic.

+Mohamed Mohsen It's a learning process; just try again or something else. Nobody gets anything done perfectly the first time.

Lukasz Antoniak I have the 'Ring' command shortcutted. It's also a button under editable poly, when you are in edges mode.

guillermo puertas What more would that accomplish other than 'technically being better'? It would take a lot more time and the end result would be exactly the same.

onnovanbraam , because you must to use quads, not tris. and you need the same time :/

Why must I use quads? Do you actually have an argument, other than that you think it's better? I know when, where and why to use quads I think. In this case messiness actually adds to the look of the welds, so I would almost say tri's are be better.

guillermo puertas Tris are perfectly fine unless you're developing an asset that requires deformation while animating (for instance, a vertex or multiple vertices moving on a single element) - than it's important to focus on quads, otherwise tri's are perfectly fine especially on an asset like this that wouldn't deform during animation, assuming you'd want to animate it. You can still make a good looking model containing tri's.

+TheSecondAntagoniser Sorry to hop in late, but sometimes tris are actually beneficial for deformation if strategically placed along the sides of joints that will only bend in one direction, in character meshes for example, for knees and elbows. Helps to build up more quads to deform on the front side, a knee for example, and keep quads minimal on the surface behind so that there's not too much geometry folding in on itself. But anyways, from a rendering and efficiency standpoint, as was the initial argument here, yeah, tris are fine. Many game engines actually 'triangulate' meshes made of quads during the import process anyway.

This is a modeling exercise, not a tutorial. Exercises are meant to put what you KNOW into PRACTICE.

Hey don't hate! You potato!

hes annoying

m0rr0ws0n :(

This an advanced tutorial. Maybe he should change the title.

Ah, I understand; it's a tutorial for people who don't need it.

Malrunes Dagger It's a tutorial for people who understand more than a beginner... For some guys that understand the basics of 3Ds Max it's kinda annoying to hear the explanation of all the steps, even the smallest ones...