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wedge
07-15-2003, 05:08 AM
there doesn't seem to be a CPS tool for Maya 5, so is there another way to have a quick swap between high and low poly models? With CPS you can just click + for more detail and - for less detail, but with Smooth you have to smooth it and then undo to get rid of it. smooth proxy is alright, i guess. and i don't want to lose out on poly tools by switching to subd. any ideas?

EDIT: I've been messing around with the smooth proxy, and one thing I'm also looking for is edge snapping, where matching vertices snap together, making parts that line up go flush, instead of being rounded off.
Gremlin
07-15-2003, 05:59 AM
well, follow my tutorial... the result will be a low poly mesh that updates a high poly mesh in realtime. :D

1. first duplicate the low poly mesh (if its only half, we'll mirror it later) and move it to the side.
2. open up the connection editor.
3. select the first mesh, press the down arrow (to get the shape node) and load this in the left side of the connection editor.
4. select the second mesh, press the down arrow and load this in the right side of the connection editor.
5. on the left, scroll down and select "out mesh"
6. on the right, scroll down and select (you guessed it) "in mesh" and apply the connection.
7. now you can polysmooth (2 subdivions, or whatever) the second mesh, and it'll update when you change the low poly mesh, and if your using the mirror technique, you may now duplicate instances of each mesh (low and high) and mirror them. :D

hope this helps a little!
Cheers
BoxxNine Studios,
seuldieu@hotmail.com
wedge
07-15-2003, 10:19 AM
yeah, that one i can do...

riddle me this: would there be a way to have one button that would hide one and show the other? so instead of having to look at the smoothed mesh under the cage, i could just switch back and forth?
MasonDoran
07-15-2003, 12:22 PM
just set a simple expression on the visibility.

if xxx.visibility ==1
{
yyy.visibility==0
}

else yyy.visibility ==1;


or something like that....
trthing
07-15-2003, 02:42 PM
By the way, CPS tools run in Maya 5: I am using them, at least...
The workaraound works fine too, of course...
trthing
07-15-2003, 09:46 PM
By the way, CPS tools run in Maya 5: I am using them, at least...
The workaraound works fine too, of course...
wedge
07-16-2003, 10:20 AM
which cps tools did you install? and did you do any changes to them?
stickyblue
07-17-2003, 12:56 AM
yea cps works fine with maya , whats your error ? why cant you use it
wedge
07-17-2003, 02:43 AM
i never had an error... i just went to the CPS site and saw.. "3.5, 4.x, 4.5"... but no 5.0... so i figured there wasn't one. but now i have the latest CPS installed, and all is right with the world.
Marcel
09-19-2003, 01:03 PM
You should get the CPS layer switch script by Gino Dammers, that will make your world even better :)

http://www.ginodammers.com/
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