Polygon smoothing

[stallion151]

not exactly sure about lightwave thing, but to turn off smoothing go to your channel box click on smooth....and change divisions to zero.

[twoshoes]

:) i cant find exactly where you mean, could u tell me in a more simpler way (bit of a noob)

[NitroLiq]

If you're talking about modeling with a low-poly shell while viewing the smoothed object, you create a cube, then go polygons > smooth proxy. Then you can just move the LP shell out of the way and you'll see the smoothed cube inside. You can adjust the smoothness of it by going to your inputs in the channel box for polySmoothFace and raise or lower the divisions.

[pollywoggles]

here is an example...

http://www.geocities.com/pollywoggles2 (http://www.geocities.com/pollywoggles2/)/SmoothEx.jpg

[twoshoes]

I think were talking about the same thing here, problem is here

This is it when i render it, i get this when smooth shading is turned on for that object
http://img53.exs.cx/img53/3195/9218.jpg


This is it when i turn off smooth shading for the object
http://img53.exs.cx/img53/3681/9219.jpg


My problem is, that part of the object needs to me smoothed and some parts dont

[Scott212]

I think I have a script that matches your request! I always write myself little tools to help me along and I think I have one perfect for your request. It's attatched in a zip file. Just drag the contents of swSmoothPolyTool.mel onto your shelf by opening it in notepad or something similar. Please let me know if you like it!

Scott Willman

[twoshoes]

Thats a cool tool dude but the problem is still when i render it :S

[Scott212]

if it's an issue of some parts being smoothed and some not, that's just how many subdivision you have in certain areas. There's a few different ways to acheive that such as manually splitting faces or polygons>subdivide. You could also detatch the areas that shouldn't be smoothed and then do the smooth on the main object. You'll need some alterations on the unsmoothed geometry so that you can reattach it, but other than that, there's not a supported method within maya.

[twoshoes]

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/5391/eg.th.jpg (http://img56.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img56&image=eg.jpg)


Heres how it works in <cough> lightwave

[Scott212]

at this stage, that function doesn't exist. You're gonna have to find a different way around it.

[ush]

I used to use lightwave and this smooth function is correspond to soften/harden in maya.
EditPolygon>nomals>soften/harden option.(you can set angle)
If my memory is right.....

[twoshoes]

Cheers everyone :D got it sorted now

[safakoner]

you can assign this code to a hotkey ;)

string $CurSel[] = `filterExpand -sm 12`;
if(`size($CurSel)` == 0)
error "No polygon object selected.\n";
else
{
if(`size($CurSel)` > 1)
error "Please select only one polygon object.\n";
else
{
if( `objExists SmoothToggle` )
{
setAttr "SmoothToggle.divisions" 0;
delete SmoothToggle;
selectMode -object;
string $csel[]= `ls -sl`;
select $csel;
print "Equinox Smooth Level Set to : 0";
}
else
{
selectMode -object;
string $csel[]= `ls -sl`;
polySmooth -mth 0 -dv 2 -c 1 -kb 1 -ksb 1 -khe 0 -kt 1 -kmb 1 -suv 1 -sl 1 -dpe 1 -ps 0.1 -ro 1 -ch 1 $csel;
string $sn[]=`ls -sl -dag -type mesh`;
string $sel_fs[]=`listConnections -type polySmoothFace $sn[0]`;
rename $sel_fs[0] SmoothToggle;
select $csel;
print "Equinox Smooth Level Set to : 2";
}
}

}

[stallion151]

what does your script do Equinox? i thought he was only after the soften/harden for normals...

[safakoner]

ok.
If you assign this script to a hotkey, you can use it smooth toggle like tab key in Lightwave.
:)
I wrote this script 8 months before. I just want to share.

[stallion151]

hey equinoxx, check your PM.

[annaleah]

equinox has many very excellent scripts.
Thanks.

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