Maya 2014 - Can Quad Draw Create UV's Like 3D Coat does?

CarlK3D

Ok so for reference I was previously using 3D Coat for doing my re-topology since it also Lays out new UV's so there no need to manually unwrap after retopo. Maya 2014 and its new "Quad Draw" feature however I found it doesn't layout UV's like 3D Coat does so my question is...

Is it possible to have it layout UV's?
my initial answer was no but I just want to be sure before I decide on either Maya 2014 or 3D Coat for Character Retopo.

Thankyou!

CarlK3D

CarlK3D

I'm guessing no one have tried Quad Draw yet?

oglu

3dcoat isnt doing uvs during the retopo... i assume you used some uv tools afterwards...

there is no way to smooth the mesh during retopo in maya...
so quad draw is useless for me...

Froyok

Quad draw is what is name is telling : a tool for drawing quads. Nothing more.
For UVs in Maya you have to use the default tools made for that.

Joopson

oglu wrote: »

there is no way to smooth the mesh during retopo in maya...
so quad draw is useless for me...

What do you mean?

oglu

there is no feature in maya that is able to smooth/relax the new retopo mesh on top of the underlying highpoly mesh... make live and other workarounds with the new modeling tools are to slow...

you need a plugin for... diamant tools or retopoG is able to do that..
without that feature its no fun to do retopo work in maya...


http://rd3d.com/dtools/
http://retopog.com/

JohnnyRaptor

ah man, that retopoG looks awesome! get me on the beta! :0

Froyok

What I'm currently doing is using the Relax tool from the Sculpt Geometry tool, then I re-project my geometry on my live mesh with the transfer attribute. (I don't use the smooth tool because it doesn't preserve the edge border.)

It's not perfect or even fast I must admit, but it do most of the work.

Example :