What would be the best way to make this scifi suit?

[joseph]

Before you extrude, make the whole line, then bevel it. Now it has even thickness

[deanodirector (ollie)]

I’ve retopologized the lighter section and marked it as a seam. I now want to fill in the rest but when I use polyquilt’s smooth function to spread quads evenly it shifts the seams too. Is there a way I can lock the seam vertices in place?

[etn249]

I don’t know about polyquilt, but does it work if you hide the seam’s vertices? That would work with a lot of tools in Blender.

If it can’t be done with polyquilt, it could surely be done with loop tools. It would be a bit slower, as you would need to select the loops to work on, but you can work on very specific sections of a mesh with that addon and it does have a nice relax tool.

[stray]

You can also assign different Face Sets from edit mode selection and use Relax Slide sculpt brush with Face Sets auto-masking.