CGTalk - Maya Smoothing

Taz

02-14-2003, 03:43 AM

Im using maya 4.5 and ive made a pannel and have extruded the edges.....althoe it creates thoes hard edges on the faces...is there any way of smoothing it without adding the extra poly's???

skigil

02-14-2003, 03:47 AM

no...

you could use the Smooth command, but that would atleast double your polygons. Otherwise, I believe that you can convert Poly's into Nurbs now with Maya 4.5

happy Maya'ing..

-skigil

Isrithe

02-14-2003, 03:52 AM

Shoot, I wish I could convert a polygon into a nurbs surface. Maya 4.5 DOES NOT have that option. You may need to get a mel script for that one. I have seen it somewhere, but I forgot where its at.

jimiyo

02-14-2003, 03:53 AM

you can soften the normals which will not do anything to the geometry but when it renders it will appear to be a soft edge... under edit polygons>normals>soften/harden

Isrithe

02-14-2003, 04:00 AM

I was just about to post that. cool.

YEAH WHAT HE SAID!

Taz

02-16-2003, 12:06 PM

Thanks for your help, works like a charm :)

Modulok

02-16-2003, 03:01 PM

For the conversion....

Convert polys to subD, and then SubD to NURBS

-Modulok-

Ultimatebadass

02-16-2003, 05:06 PM

Thanks guys! Now that Soften/Harden option is a one cool thing!

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