Tesselation

[Pent]

1. sorry I don't know anything about tesselation

2. select one of the grouped objects and press the up arrow key to select the whole group, default shortcut key

[Electrofirma]

On the subject of groups and selecting them. For those who didn't know...

Nested groups can be traversed with the arrow keys in the same way as you would with a skeleton.

I believe that anything which has a heirarchy in the hypergraph can be traversed in the same way.

Up goes up a level.
Down goes down a level.
Left and right walks through the branches at that level.

Can be very useful for complex scenes with lots of stuff!

All you newbies know in the hypergraph you can middle button drag stuff in and out of groups right?

I wouldn't be dredging all this simple stuff up, but I just recently discovered it for myself. :scream:

[JasonA]

Originally posted by vertexstudios
1.) Should i use advanced tesselation? im workin on a car and im not sure what tesselation i should use. Advanced tess. doesnt seem to work with mental ray, but i dont need mental ray anyway, or do i?

You'll need to use the advanced tesselation. It will work best if you get your isoparms and spans lined up between patches, if you don't you'll have tiny gaps which are almost impossible to remove. If your parametrization between patches doesn't match, you'll have gaps no matter what. Maya doesn't handle tesselation between boundaries very well. I don't think this issue was addressed in v5 either.

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