Looking for sphere of triangles,

JDunay

Hey guys!

I'm trying to find a sphere .obj that is made up of triangles, or a Geodesic (sp?) dome. I tried making one in maya, by just creating a sphere and then triangulating it, but that only divided the quads into tris, not exactly what I would like.

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/geodesic-domes-obj/656275

Does anyone know where I could get one like this above? only for free, or maybe if there was an different approach that would be awesome also. Thanks guys!

Mark Dygert

In max it's a primitive shape called a geosphere, I thought Maya had this but it might have been a script I grabbed, its been a while but I remember it being there.

It looks like CreativeCrash has something like it if it hasn't been added in recent years or for some stupid reason they took it out?
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/polygon/c/geosphere-polyprimitives

Swizzle

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/files/Create__Polygon_Primitives.htm

Scroll down to Platonic Solids and check out divisions.

Snader

What the fuck... Maya doesn't have geospheres?

Shanthosa

If you make a cube and then use Mesh -> Smooth and then Mesh -> Triangulate it will get you close. Certainly not as cool as a geosphere, and not as easy to predict how it will triangulate in terms of topology, but it's a quick work-around.

Angry Beaver

Here's a very nifty picture to help you create a proper icosphere if you're really wanting one.



Each of thoose rectangles is 1x((1.0 + Math.Sqrt(5.0)) / 2.0) or 1x1.618034