extrude / inset ' perfect ' circle. maya

tacit math

this has come up before but i've yet to find a solid solution so i'm bumping the request. anybody know of an automated / scripted solution to extrude / inset a face with a circle of N edges ? or. chamfer a vertex to similar result ?

maya specific. thanks

Ark

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81038&highlight=xsi

This may be of some help.

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passerby

still very wip.

but the script i posted here http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1820907&postcount=14

should take a vertex selection and try to make a circle out of it.

still very wip, and currently it wont even out the vertex spacing, but if you run it on something that already has good spaceing, it works great.

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passerby

ya it;s python, i find it also works better if your say trying to make a circle from 4 quads to deselect the middle vertex, since it will end up pushing it to the side on you.

tacit math

awesome guys. thanks heaps for the help. that script from creative crash is mint !! gonna have a play with the solution passerby posted in a bit

cheers

EDIT.

ha. dumb bastard i am. posted before i checked that script on a NON SQUARE face. . . no joy

tacit math

THIS. would be the target functionality : http://maxfoxlab.com/mx_roundish.html

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passerby

TeriyakiStyle wrote: »

ohhh ok... hmm I'll keep an eye out. I'd like to have something like that as well.

Passerby's script seems to be pretty close to that. With a few modifications needed to match.

ya I need to find a way to even the vertex spacing out, which will take a little bit of math I don't know atm, than maybe add a option to subdivide edges first to add more geo.

Saf

I use this alternative:
ZhCG_PolyTools -> Regularize -> Circularize Line
>> link <<

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OVE7Ah8Gs&quot;]Circularize Line - YouTube[/ame]

TeZzy

Cool thanks for pointing that out Saf :thumbup:. Did not know that ZhCG tools had so many goodies in it. It's funny because when I was looking for a quad capping tool, ZhCG tools also included it.

tacit math

now we're talking !! having a play with this set of tools now. . . cheers for the link Saf

Mayalicious

I have installad the ZhCG Tools and its fantastic but where is the quad capping tool?

TeZzy

Oh right, my bad....shouldn't have called it quad capping, it's more like it converts the face selection into a variety of arrangements.....afaik you have to cap the hole using fill hole first. Then select the face and go to Edit Componets > Faces Info. You will then be prompted with a few options. Give it a go and you will see what I mean.

tacit math

a wealth of great features this thing !!!

passerby

ya I'm still going to take this as a challenge and see if I can make my own with equilvent featurs with the Maya API. think I found a good method for averaging out the vertex distances, and a less hackish route to makeing the circle that dosnt a deformer to do the work.

TeZzy

that's cool that you are still looking at it passerby, the ZhCG tools version is great but having alternatives is always a good thing.

FactoriesBurning

I accidentally figured out a way to do this today.

It's not perfect, but if you start with a square face, select poke face, select add subdivisions, and then triangulate you get a circle. I'll try to post a video or screenshots later.

looprix

Regularize_CirclelizeLine;
__main__.circlelizeLine()
# Error: NameError: name '__main__' is not defined #

Anyone getting this error?

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