Circular quad sphere trick

AdvisableRobin

Hey Polycount,

Maybe this is already known, but I recently discovered a way to make a perfectly circular quad sphere. As we all know, if you smooth a cube out you get something only slightly better than a potato.

Now, this works in Maya 2015 using the modeling toolkit, I'm not sure or currently able to test it out in any other programs so if you're curious, give it a whirl. The method should remain the same.

All you need to do is use the modeling toolkit's Bevel tool on a cube, pull it to an offset of 1 and then change it to an even number of segments for nice surface topology.

The results.


Only thing you need to do is merge the two center edges otherwise you find the crouching tiger, hidden edges. And that ain't gravy.

SuperFranky

In 3ds Max it works like this:

1. Create a perfect cube
2. Add segments to your liking
3. Apply Spherify modifier

jfitch

Nice. I'm lazy and I usually just export the polysphere from zrbush if I need one haha. Actually took me a minute to figure out what you meant, I was trying to use the bevel tool in the mesh tools menu and didn't remember what the segments bit was. Oops.

fade1

Alternative in Maya:
- Create a Cube with desired number of edge loops
- Under Animation Create Deformers -> Sculpt Deformer and Edit Delete All By Type->History
Done.
Quite similar to 3dMax Spherify modifier