Apparently -- amazingly -- no other question seems to have a similar title to this one.
I will retopologise later, so please don't think this is the final topology.
I'm trying to remove triangles and ngons in my mesh, but when I remove ngons, it creates a triangle.
When I remove triangles, by turning them into ngons, it turns any neighboring quads into ngons.
Using this method doesn't remove triangles and ngons.
How can I do what I'm trying to do?
Thank you.
Just for consideration, you have many T-splines around your hole which automatically makes neighboring geometry N-gons (N-gon is every face consisting of 5 or more vertices)
If you want less messy geometry you should get rid of T-splines. You can do this by dissolving unnecessary edges (some of them are marked in orange on the image below (x -> dissolve edges)). Dissolving edges (also dissolving vertices or faces) is really handy in cases when you are cleaning your own geometry. Also, you should merge some vertices.
And, most important. Next time you are doing something like this just do this:
Then if you want more geometry just add subdivision surface (you probably don't have that tight poly budget).
And one last thing. Don't be so afraid of triangles. It s true that quads are usually better, but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
