[MAYA] CREASE+ - Tool for Hard Surface

WaYWO

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Update! It's version 1.0 guys !
[noparse]https://youtu.be/JMx-GLaCtxE

jmlinares

Under develop XDDD

Justo

José Manuel!! Increíble trabajo como siempre @jmlinares , lindo verte aquí en Polycount también. Keep at it you monster!

WaYWO

Visum said:

Pleeease some in depth tutorial how to use your tools

Working on it already , ain't no worries Mate

WaYWO

jmlinares said:

A weekend wip:







Jose

That's Lit ! Yep you should poor some liquids in the Pipes  

Visum

^^^     
Sooo good.

jmlinares

Justo said:

José Manuel!! Increíble trabajo como siempre @jmlinares , lindo verte aquí en Polycount también. Keep at it you monster!

Buenas Justo!! Aqui estoy enganchao a este desarrollo que siempre lo he echado en falta en Maya. Todavía muchas cosas que pulir pero es un comienzo. Un saludo enrome y me alegro mucho de saludarte por aqui!!

Lain Iwakura

Does CREASE+ tool work with Maya 2012?

Wowoz

Hi. Just bought crease+ and I have few questions. I'm working on Maya 2016 sp6.
1. I try to add nice bevels like on your trailer video but its looks very ugly:

I can't find the reason why it looks like this. I tried to attach verts from boolean to every side. I made loops. When I worked in similar plugin for Blender i didn't have so weird effects.
2. There is any way to avoid crashing? Sometimes Maya crashing after 5 minutes of working.

http://youtu.be/sSHiP4PASLE?hd=1

Torch

Hey man, thanks for this tool its awesome, loving playing around with it so far. I hate to be 'that guy', but will you be showing any walkthroughs or tutorials on how you did some of those models, e.g. in the trailer or the latest one you posted? It would be cool to see how the tool is implemented in a practical way. Thanks again!

WaYWO

Torch said:

Hey man, thanks for this tool its awesome, loving playing around with it so far. I hate to be 'that guy', but will you be showing any walkthroughs or tutorials on how you did some of those models, e.g. in the trailer or the latest one you posted? It would be cool to see how the tool is implemented in a practical way. Thanks again!

I'm working on an Overview video that will cover everything, mate , I feel like Grade A sometimes, sorry .

WaYWO

Wowoz said:

Hi. Just bought crease+ and I have few questions. I'm working on Maya 2016 sp6.
1. I try to add nice bevels like on your trailer video but its looks very ugly:

I can't find the reason why it looks like this. I tried to attach verts from boolean to every side. I made loops. When I worked in similar plugin for Blender i didn't have so weird effects.
2. There is any way to avoid crashing? Sometimes Maya crashing after 5 minutes of working.

http://youtu.be/sSHiP4PASLE?hd=1

Just get to The Channel Box, and Choose Star , Or Round from the Bevel Type attribute rollout
Each New  versions brings better performances , for less crashes , It's rare on My side (Maya 2017 with of course the last update / Service Pack ).

jmlinares

Hello Torch. Just one personal recommendation. Sometimes (more if you increase the complexity of the model), you will have to connect (manually) some part of the geometry to avoid these issues (broken corners etc), or change between different types of Bevel. Personally I prefer to fix the geometry obtained in boolean process.



Hope it helps.
Jose

WaYWO

jmlinares said:

Hello Torch. Just one personal recommendation. Sometimes (more if you increase the complexity of the model), you will have to connect (manually) some part of the geometry to avoid these issues (broken corners etc), or change between different types of Bevel. Personally I prefer to fix the geometry obtained in boolean process.



Hope it helps.
Jose

One way to avoid big manual tasks is to use HBevel in Face Mode, Yep, sometimes corners are wrong , It's totally fine to change the Bevel Type, most of the time I use Round . Also as far as complexity goes , operations will be heavier , splitting some parts is required for that last issue. Working on the next update aswell

jmlinares

Hi Next model.
Fan art based on a 343 industries concept art:





Jose

jmlinares

coccosoids

nervouschimp said:

Thanks, guys. Another lil doodad.

*yo, yo! Do you have some sort of making of, workflow, breakdown, how to video or something for a model like that using this tool? (totally not a modeler, sorry )

WaYWO

jmlinares said:

Great work as always Jose , also update is coming , be pumped (still doing that overview video)

WaYWO

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3DBoogieBr

I just bought the software. I usually go for traditional Booleans inside maya and do all the final stuff inside Zbrush. 

For me its still a bit confusing how the tool works... so a good idea is to make a video explaining just the basic, just a kickstart

But anyways, amazing tool, really cool stuff here has well. 

jmlinares

Hello, 
Attached you can find a video of a behaviour when you select round or start type with Hb
Download video here

Jose

WaYWO

jmlinares said:

Hello, 
Attached you can find a video of a behaviour when you select round or start type with Hb
Download video here

Jose

It's inevitable, It happens mostly with cylindrical shapes with NGons, That's why Average is the prime choice.
-go and weld the artifacts , but yeah , time consuming...
-just tweak topology so there's no Ngons
-Or use ShapeShifter if you have it , but here again, ShapeShifter can't perform in Face Mode so you might want to extract that part if you absolutely want it to have "Round " Distribution...

New updates and videos are coming soon guys

Chris Rohlfing

Bought the script. I am having an issue with Maya crashing a lot. Specifically when I am doing undo's. Is this something that is currently being worked on? I am Maya 2017 Update 1.

WaYWO

Chris Rohlfing said:

Bought the script. I am having an issue with Maya crashing a lot. Specifically when I am doing undo's. Is this something that is currently being worked on? I am Maya 2017 Update 1.

Yes, constantly , what is your OS ? It seems like most of the users having crashes are running on Windows 7 rather then Window 10 (rare crashes on my side) ...

Chris Rohlfing

I am actually on Windows 8.  . Maybe I am having the same issues as people on 7, I can try running it on my work computers Monday as they are using 10. Maybe it will be more stable on that platform.

Loginius

Such a great tool, makes using maya for modeling much less of a pain! Keep up the good work!

Mayalicious

jmlinares said:

A weekend wip:







Jose

can you make a short tutorial about one of your works that we can see how you use the tool? thanks.

Goobatastic

WaYWO said:

Chris Rohlfing said:

Bought the script. I am having an issue with Maya crashing a lot. Specifically when I am doing undo's. Is this something that is currently being worked on? I am Maya 2017 Update 1.

Yes, constantly , what is your OS ? It seems like most of the users having crashes are running on Windows 7 rather then Window 10 (rare crashes on my side) ...

Yeah im getting alot of crashes also when undoing. Im using windows10 and Maya2016

Visum

Goobatastic said:

WaYWO said:

Chris Rohlfing said:

Bought the script. I am having an issue with Maya crashing a lot. Specifically when I am doing undo's. Is this something that is currently being worked on? I am Maya 2017 Update 1.

Yes, constantly , what is your OS ? It seems like most of the users having crashes are running on Windows 7 rather then Window 10 (rare crashes on my side) ...

Yeah im getting alot of crashes also when undoing. Im using windows10 and Maya2016

Same here. Maya LT. Undo most likely = crash.

Loren Broach

Just want to echo the sentiment that having a video covering the basics would be extremely helpful! The tool looks amazing but it's unclear how to use it effectively.  Thanks.  I've only managed to figure out a handful of the tools.

coccosoids

Loren Broach said:

Just want to echo the sentiment that having a video covering the basics would be extremely helpful! The tool looks amazing but it's unclear how to use it effectively.  Thanks.  I've only managed to figure out a handful of the tools.

*what he said.

hellobard

coccosoids said:

Loren Broach said:

Just want to echo the sentiment that having a video covering the basics would be extremely helpful! The tool looks amazing but it's unclear how to use it effectively.  Thanks.  I've only managed to figure out a handful of the tools.

*what he said.

what they both said!

Just bought the tool and still having problems figuring out how to optimally use it. The beveling you're doing in the videos is not the sort of results i'm getting when trying it myself and the speeded up video isn't very clear and impossible to frame by frame to see what you're actually doing. Could you do a quick explainer video at normal speed and maybe with text or voice instructions?

Visum

Just to give a idea.
If you look at miauu scripts he always does 2-3 minutes videos explaining new features that way you can always google that one thing and it's fast and informative.
Plus you don't have to do a whole movie that way

cromadbomber

Just bought this script. It is awesome! Also I sent you private message for latest version.(0.95 I bought from Gumroad). Loving this tool so far.

Mayalicious

isn't 0.95 latest verison?

WaYWO

Hey guys,
Wanted you to know first that I read carefully each of your replies on the topic

Now , Update and Videos will have public release tomorrow

Edit : It's lready tomorrow because 12 AM, Hold on !

coccosoids

WaYWO said:

Hey guys,
Wanted you to know first that I read carefully each of your replies on the topic

Now , Update and Videos will have public release tomorrow

Edit : It's lready tomorrow because 12 AM, Hold on !

Bring the goods!

WaYWO

Yell @3DBoogieBr @Torch and All,
Crease+ is 0.98 now , to get updated > Check your mails or  Re-download
Documentation will be updated Shortly
Here are some Videos (two in which you can literally hear my beautiful voice) : )
Basics part 01(Modeling)
Basics part 02(Curves)
The Raws > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5N-fdxqTYSp5awUUDYoRyH0PCrctmA6

For The Raw's : These are savage freestyles (I like it nasty) , Be aware that I don't even use Crease+ at Its full potential in these videos.

Vojtisek

Hi WaYWO,

realy love your tool, great and using it a lot. But please can I ask for little bit more readable update emails?
It's little bit messy - viewed in Chrome Gmail on Win10 


Thank you, great work on this tool!

Visum

WaYWO said:

Yell @3DBoogieBr @Torch and All,
Crease+ is 0.98 now , to get updated > Check your mails or  Re-download
Documentation will be updated Shortly
Here are some Videos (two in which you can literally hear my beautiful voice) : )
Basics part 01(Modeling)
Basics part 02(Curves)
The Raws > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5N-fdxqTYSp5awUUDYoRyH0PCrctmA6

For The Raw's : These are savage freestyles (I like it nasty) , Be aware that I don't even use Crease+ at Its full potential in these videos.

Do I hear Mass Effect soundtrack in there? Best song ever!

And thank you for the tutorials.

SebastianK

Hey, I was wondering, when working with quite large objects the max DBevel Offset for HBevel of 4 doesn't quite cut it, restricting it to just creating these really small bevels. Is there any way of making the offset go past 4? Shapeshifter does work for this but it doesn't let you use it in face mode like HBevel does. Maybe this is just me being dumb and there's some setting I've missed or something

Polynaught

Any plans to support maya 2015?
Is it even doable? Or are you relying on newer API calls?

WaYWO

SebastianK said:

Hey, I was wondering, when working with quite large objects the max DBevel Offset for HBevel of 4 doesn't quite cut it, restricting it to just creating these really small bevels. Is there any way of making the offset go past 4? Shapeshifter does work for this but it doesn't let you use it in face mode like HBevel does. Maybe this is just me being dumb and there's some setting I've missed or something

Enter numerical values directly in the field from the Channel Box and it shall work

WaYWO

Visum said:

WaYWO said:

Yell @3DBoogieBr @Torch and All,
Crease+ is 0.98 now , to get updated > Check your mails or  Re-download
Documentation will be updated Shortly
Here are some Videos (two in which you can literally hear my beautiful voice) : )
Basics part 01(Modeling)
Basics part 02(Curves)
The Raws > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5N-fdxqTYSp5awUUDYoRyH0PCrctmA6

For The Raw's : These are savage freestyles (I like it nasty) , Be aware that I don't even use Crease+ at Its full potential in these videos.

Do I hear Mass Effect soundtrack in there? Best song ever!

And thank you for the tutorials.

No problem, Yep Love Mass effect to bits

WaYWO

Polynaught said:

Any plans to support maya 2015?
Is it even doable? Or are you relying on newer API calls?

Unfortunately , nope, , If you're afraid of updating to 2016, I'd say, go for it because 2016 is not 100% filled with the new UI...

WaYWO

So I Was recording RAW No 5 Video, and camtasia decided to fuck it up, with file corruption

SebastianK

WaYWO said:

SebastianK said:

Hey, I was wondering, when working with quite large objects the max DBevel Offset for HBevel of 4 doesn't quite cut it, restricting it to just creating these really small bevels. Is there any way of making the offset go past 4? Shapeshifter does work for this but it doesn't let you use it in face mode like HBevel does. Maybe this is just me being dumb and there's some setting I've missed or something

Enter numerical values directly in the field from the Channel Box and it shall work

Haven't been able to get that working, just resets back to 4 every time I change it.

WaYWO

SebastianK said:

WaYWO said:

SebastianK said:

Hey, I was wondering, when working with quite large objects the max DBevel Offset for HBevel of 4 doesn't quite cut it, restricting it to just creating these really small bevels. Is there any way of making the offset go past 4? Shapeshifter does work for this but it doesn't let you use it in face mode like HBevel does. Maybe this is just me being dumb and there's some setting I've missed or something

Enter numerical values directly in the field from the Channel Box and it shall work

Haven't been able to get that working, just resets back to 4 every time I change it.

Will fix it , until that , just scale it down

jmlinares

Undo works!!!!!!!!!!!

WaYWO

jmlinares said:

Undo works!!!!!!!!!!!

has always worked for me , but yeah cheers

jmlinares

WaYWO said:

jmlinares said:

Undo works!!!!!!!!!!!

has always worked for me , but yeah cheers

Still crashing