detach all faces in maya?

maze

Hello there!

I have a quick question for you guys, hope you can help me! do you know
if there is a way in maya to select an object and "explode" it into separate objects
based on each polygon face? I ve been trying with extract but then Ineed to select
each face and it becomes ultra long... does someone know a way or has a script
to achieve this? I am using maya 2015btw... thanks!

erroldynamic

Select vertices, Edit Mesh>Detach Component, Mesh>Separate. Select objects, change Move Axis to Normal(Move Tool Settings), use the N axis handle to move/explode the now separated faces.

maze

saved my day dude, thanks a lot!! it works ace

erroldynamic

Sure thing man

sarez66

I wrote this simple Python code that can do the same thing. If you want to explode many times you can build a button in the shelf from this code. Just paste it into the script editor :

import maya.cmds as mc

cLst = mc.ls(sl=True)
faces = mc.polyEvaluate(cLst,f=True)

def divLag(b):
    mc.polyChipOff (cLst[0]+'.f[0:%d]'%faces,kft=False,dup=False)
    mc.polySeparate (cLst,rs=True,n='piece#')
    vLst = mc.ls(sl=True)
    return vLst

print divLag(faces)

since I am at the beginning of my learning curve about python in Maya, any comments would be appreciated!
http://urbanizone.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/explode-object-by-face-python-script-maya/

maze

sooorry for responding after soo long man!!!

Thank you very much it works wonderfully!!! cheers


-Manu

sarez66

no worries man.. glad it helped!

Sasan