Maya subdivisions

Sunray

Hey,

I'm following a tutorial and in the tutorial silo is being used to model most of the stuff. And from what I've seen silo has a really nice way of modeling with sdvis with hitting "c" you can go a sdiv up and with "v" one down is there any way you can do this in maya?

throttlekitty

With a polygon mesh, smooth preview with "3", and pgUp/pgDown to set the subdivision level. This and more is in the attribute editor for the shape under "Smooth Mesh"

There's also subdivision surfaces, one of their early attempts; it can do all the up/down and local subdivides. But it's not worth using most of the time. (modify>create>garbage IIRC)

Sunray

throttlekitty said:

With a polygon mesh, smooth preview with "3", and pgUp/pgDown to set the subdivision level. This and more is in the attribute editor for the shape under "Smooth Mesh"

There's also subdivision surfaces, one of their early attempts; it can do all the up/down and local subdivides. But it's not worth using most of the time. (modify>create>garbage IIRC)

Thank you very much will take a look at them.

Sunray

@throttlekitty

Hey, 

One more question when I use smooth preview I have my vertex boundary set to sharp edges and when I click on smooth mesh preview to polygons it uses the vertex boundary sharp edges and corners anyway to fix this?

throttlekitty

So it does. Looks like an oversight in the script that handles that, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it.
In the meantime, Mesh>Smooth should still work for you.

Sunray

throttlekitty said:

So it does. Looks like an oversight in the script that handles that, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it.
In the meantime, Mesh>Smooth should still work for you.

Yeah been using that way it's just a bit annoying haha but still thanks anyway.

Sunray

@throttlekitty

Hey once again,

I'm trying to change the hotkeys for going up and down since i don't like page up and down but i can't find the name of it in the hotkey editor do you know how it's called?

throttlekitty

The more you know! You can also hover over the keyboard image to get a tooltip for anything that key + combo works. (but then you have to search for the friendly name, so it's quicker this way.)

Sunray

throttlekitty said:

The more you know! You can also hover over the keyboard image to get a tooltip for anything that key + combo works. (but then you have to search for the friendly name, so it's quicker this way.)

Thank you very much didn't know that.