There was a way to decrease cylinder vertices when you add a cylinder mesh in 2.49. but I cant seem to find where it the option is in 2.5. I looked at the wiki books and user manual but I am having no luck. Please help
Add your cylinder, press T, look at the bottom of the window for options or press F6
It’s described in the blender 2.5x notes which I assumed you did read http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-254-beta/tool-system/
this is what I am referencing…In the first vid, in about :45 sec into it he scales down the vertices but he is using 2.49
I went in as you said "the tool shelf (T) and I’ve been in there and still dont see where to do it. I am a new user to 2.5 and just been racking my brain trying to find it. can you give specifics?
If you can see your tool shelf (by pressing ‘t’) and still don’t see your options at the bottom of the shelf, then look for a very small plus sign at the bottom right of your 3D window:
That causes the options to appear. Note that as soon as you do anything else with the cylinder (like scale it, or move it, or subsurf it, or whatever) the options are gone. You need to modify them when you first create the primitive.
yea, i really showed my newbness…but i tried that several times but it never showed up. I think you were right. Once I moved it and then tried to size it. i never saw that option. I went and started adding a circle mesh, sphere, and then tried a cylinder again and finally saw all them with that option to change vertices, radius, etc. What i did was just kept the Tool shelf displayed while I added meshes to see if it would appear. Now I know and knowing is half the battle…the other half is actually having the skills to pull it off.
Thanks again for assisting yet another newb!