Lightwave TAB equivalent?

[SheepFactory]

There isnt one to my knowledge.

You can use smooth proxy or CPS so you can turn on\off the smooth geometry from the layer editor.

[rock]

Thanks. It's a little different getting used to.

[MasonDoran]

not the same....but is very effective and intuitive. If you have the smoothed or SubD assigned to one layer and the lowpoly mesh on another layer you can easily toggle the visiblity of the layers. What i do is have a 2 panel split....and use "isolate selected" (assigned as hotkey to alt-i) and with this i have both hi and low res in 2 windows....and can model on either if i wish. They both share the same camera and it is pretty fast.

Again...in maya it is expected that you create your custom interface/workflow to your needs. It seems slow at first...but once you know what you need; the hotbox and a few marking menus dramatically speed things up.

[iC4]

you could also just write a little script which hides one layer and shows the other....you can't assign it to the TAB key but maybe use the A or something like that.

[playmesumch00ns]

I've written a little script to smooth/unsmooth things: it's in the MEL scripts sticky

[fango]

LOL awesome playmesum (i like the comments in the script header )

I m using your script binded on the tilde key (left of 1, assigned by default to set focus on command line) never used lightwave and i guess it s not tab, but i don t think you can get any closer than that.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14082&perpage=15&pagenumber=8

[rock]

I can't seem to get the switchSmooth.mel to work. I tried to link to a hotkey, but nothing happens. So as an alternative, I simply select the object, and execute or source the script directly in the mel editor, nothing happens. I am using Maya 5.

[ceql]

rock, run the script, and then try selecting the object and then running alSwitchSmooth :bounce: :bounce: (thnx ch00ns!)

[rock]

ceql,

I tried that (alswitchSmooth or |switchSmooth), but get this error message:

Cannot find procedure a|switchSmooth

[ceql]

Originally posted by rock
ceql,

I tried that (alswitchSmooth or |switchSmooth), but get this error message:

Cannot find procedure a|switchSmooth

doh! :cry:

Was that last line copy+pasted, btw?
I noticed that your last line said a|switchSmooth (second character being a vertical column), instead of alSwitchSmooth (second character being the letter 'L' in lowercase ?)... could it be a simple mistyping? :shrug:

[rock]

ceql

Thanks. It's a misspellling. alswithSmooth as opposed to the correct alSwitchSmooth. The capital S. :)

Rock.

[ceql]

also, it's case sensitive... once you run the script, it has to be exactly:

alSwitchSmooth;

[ceql]

koolies! nps :D

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