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Noxerus

07-08-2003, 04:14 PM

I'm quite new to Maya, so I guess that this is a really dumb question, but here it is anyway:

I have a mesh which changes as time goes by (a couple of animated ExtrudeFaces), and I'd like the normals to update to face each frame. I mean, if I do Edit Polygons->Normals->Set to Face, then the normals do update, and I even get an input node with it, but it happens only when I select that command from the menu, and doesn't update each frame!

Help, anyone?

anthonymcgrath

07-08-2003, 05:09 PM

could you not do something using runtime expressions? I'm no genius at this but I reckon thats how it'd be done myself! :hmm:

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