[MAYA] CREASE+ - Tool for Hard Surface
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to explain in short , they would often model mid-poly models (with bevels as sharp edges), then they'd play with the normals to give it a smooth look.
BUT of course they texture it without the normal map, and you can you use this workflow and add a normal map in it , assuming your model will be triangulated anyway (no Ngons for game meshes). You can even retopo it like it was a classic high poly and bake it from there (if the normals are well smooth of course) .
here is an interesting lecture of the A.I workflow
http://polycount.com/discussion/154664/a-short-explanation-about-custom-vertex-normals-tutorial
WIP. Arc Tool from TitanFall 2.
Putting Crease + to the test. I love this tool.
when I use Shape Shifter or SolidBevel or HBevel, then Ctrl+Z Maya crash.
(Maya 2017 up2, win7)
This will be corrected?
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Final High Poly for the Arc Tool from Titanfall 2 fan art.
Doesn't happen every single time, but often enough that it seriously gets in the way.
Just figured I should let you know.
I decided to do a quick block - out with some designs in mind , to test the Quick Smoothing feature, and turns out that ... *Hey, that's pretty good* , Basically
I modeled the shapes , then selected all the Objects and hit Quick smoothing (It basically assign hard and soft edges automatically ) , to finally use HBevel with no tweaks regarding edge softness and hardness , one thing is that if It's not perfect, you can always bevel manually edges that was softened during the process. Also I'm close to release Crease+ Extension ( Will probably be Free )
Thanks
Typically you'd use birail, boundary or extrude for that example, what are you trying to accomplish?
A know about birail and if you want to fill it you have to detach curves, so when you have to fill about 100 curves it becomes so bored! ) (i need it for hardsurface retopo) for example - if you have CAD files you can get Curves from that, and what you need - only "fill" it with proper polycount.
Character artist have a lot great tools for retopo, but we with our specific not)))
So when i tried this one it's (in 3ds Max) work great with curves. In maya with birail's i have to detach curves and then rebuild they, then i can use birail -> convet to poly. Here i can only build surface without rebuilds and converts. So now it will be cool if in Maya we get same script with additional capabilities to build surface in closed curves! )))
Thank you for your job. You creating great tools for us!
one of the Hottest things in Max is the smooth by smoothing groups feature
BUT you don't have the non-destructive nature of Max in Maya , not ATM (could work on that)
STILL, the main thing about that is the fact you have a Low poly Geo that is hyper Manageable, The fact is It's even more powerful in Maya , because of the Way you can quickly set Hard and Soft edges directly.
Should be possible to increise this limitation in the future?
I have crease and I've watched your videos, but in general I have had trouble getting it to do what I want. I can get it to boolean most things exactly how I want it to, but when I get to the point of beveling the edges based on hard and soft edges using Sb or Ss, it almost always has problems in some part of the mesh, UNLESS it is a very simple mesh (ie not too crazy complicated in shape). Is there a limit to the complexity of the mesh before it just won't work properly? I know i'm being vague because I don't have a mesh in front of me to show you, but this has just been my overall feeling with the plugin. In all of my cases I am not using zbrush, just trying to get a decent highpoly in Maya.
May someone give any useful likns about scripting for newbe?
For basics I really advise you to start with maya cmds. Those are the basics. After you gained some experience, you can continue with the Maya API (maya.OpenMaya), which needs the understanding of OOP (Object Oriented Programming). Without that, you can't do anything.
The best way to learn maya.cmds is to find something, which you don't like in maya, or you know a better solution for it, which make things easier. (Combine and keep all the objects in the same group where you performed the action, or just simply writing simple for loops, to change certain attributes...)
It's like 3000 lines of code reduce to 1k clock
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