[Maya] Cutting a mesh all over where there is a texture?

bugo

Hello all,

Anyone know of a plugin or script that cuts a mesh with a texture (black and white lines) inside Maya?

I know Maya can do that with the texture to geometry, but its quite clunky and slow. And it's not necessary what I'm looking for.

Let me know if you can help.

Saf

show an example of texture, simply cut along the lines?

Subtle 1rony

If its not too complex, you could do it by hand with curves or the quad draw tool. The other method I've looked into but never tested is importing vector images and converting them to curves, then using the curves to generate geometry with something like the bevel plus tool. I suppose it would help to see the texture though, to decide the best solution. 

Subtle 1rony

I know this thread is pretty old now, but I recently came across a houdini plugin for maya that does this quite well: https://www.orbolt.com/asset/SideFX::traceimage

There's some cool stuff on there