bevel trouble - Maya 2011

IronHawk

Does anyone know how to fix bevel in Maya so it gives more accurate results. Never ran into this problem in any other app.




If anyone can help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

kodde

Did you select just that bottom vertex and go bevel or what is it we see in the first screenshot?

Did you check for any faulty issues with your mesh? Mesh > Cleanup is one way.

IronHawk

It is just a box with a simple extrude/offset across the waist where I selected the corner edges made a ring selection from those and did a simple bevel. The mesh is clean and the results are repeatable. Try using a simple octagon cylinder with any sort of convex or concave extrusions along the length and it does the same thing. I am finding maya's bevel to be incredibly frustrating because even simple operations require cleanup of a corner and then duplicating that part to create the object I want. If I take this mesh export an .obj and drop it in silo or max I get clean results from a top down ortho view.

Ark

Mayas default bevel is rather crap. In fact most of the poly tools in Maya are troublesome.

If your working in 2010 or lower then BPT bevel may be an option if you can get it too work. Checkout http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75942 for a little more info.

IronHawk

yeah found BPT with a fix for 2011 and no joy.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bpt/

kodde

Is this what we are talking about?

IronHawk

More like this. It's the basic edge bevel on the corners. This shape is just an example and a very simple example. The problem obviously gets even worse on more intricate shapes.

kodde

Ahhh. Now I see what you mean.
I get same issues as you showed. Gotta agree that this is suckage.

IronHawk

Thanks for the confirming my fears kodde at least I know what I'm dealing with now.

nicafornica

i have had this as well. had to adjust manually because i decide to leave like that but the voice in the back of my head told me to fix it so i had to.