Can't select certain faces or edges in symmetry in Maya Problem

Worldevour

I have a problem where i had dublicate edges by mistake on the problematic polygons shown below, then i used merge vertices by 0.1 on the whole mesh to fix this, but now these faces don't work on symmetry. Is there a way to fix this?

Btw I don't want to use mirror, because that will distroy my uvs which i don't want them mirrored too.

Alex_J

i'd just mirror it and redo the UV's. They are both the same right? All you got to do is move the island over, right?

Worldevour

Yes, but i mostly ask for information, because imagine this to happen on much more complex uvs..

Alex_J

as far as i am aware, mirroring with the mirror tool or duplicating and transforming -1 x is the only way to bring back symmetry. But even if a few verts are off, if the rest is still aligned it may be fine, depending at where you are in your pipeline.

Worldevour

I actually find a way to fix it, it was actually that these faces were a bit off, but i couldn't see by eye. So i dublicated only the problematic faces and mirrored them over the other side, and then snaped my mesh to that temporarily faces i mirrored. And done!

Alex_J

nice. now i learned something new.

throttlekitty

BIGTIMEMASTER said:

as far as i am aware, mirroring with the mirror tool or duplicating and transforming -1 x is the only way to bring back symmetry. But even if a few verts are off, if the rest is still aligned it may be fine, depending at where you are in your pipeline.

Actually there is a Symmetrize feature for verts, but IIRC it was only for topological symmetry + center edge.

I've had cases like this too, where some components just don't get recognized no matter what and also had to delete/mirror.