Scripts For Hard surface?

jayantbhatt007

Hi guys It would be if you share some of the scripts or tips to increase hard surface / modeling  workflow in maya. Thank you

TheGabmeister

Here's a Face-Weighted Vertex Normals Tool by Fansub. I'm not quite sure if the tool is still being updated for the latest version of Maya though. There's also CREASE+ which I think was already abandoned. Moreover, there are several live boolean scripts you can find. Haven't tried any of them yet.

Andreicus

Do you mean to speed up the workflow ? 

Plugins:

Ninja Dojo ( works in both Maya and Maya LT ): http://www.bk3d.com/Ninja_Dojo/
Hard Mesh ( only works in Maya full version, it's basically Mesh Fusion ): http://http//www.hard-mesh.com/
PlugIt ( works in Maya full version ): http://https//gumroad.com/l/PlugIt

I only use Ninja Dojo

Tips & Tricks:

- Circularize tool to make circles on a mesh with 1 click
- polyRemesh+polyRetopo commands ( integrated into Ninja Dojo or you can use the console ) to retopo and weld together meshes after a boolean operation with just 2 click and some tweaking
- polyRetopo to retopo into quads ugly topologies from sculpting softwares or anything ugly

jayantbhatt007

TheGabmeister said:

Here's a Face-Weighted Vertex Normals Tool by Fansub. I'm not quite sure if the tool is still being updated for the latest version of Maya though. There's also CREASE+ which I think was already abandoned. Moreover, there are several live boolean scripts you can find. Haven't tried any of them yet.

thank you

Mark Dygert

Any
Kuadro: http://kruelgames.com/tools/kuadro/ 
Boarder-less floating reference images. 

3dsmax
Turbo Chamfer: https://polycount.com/discussion/198219/maxscript-turbo-chamfer
Saves a ton of time, setting chamfers from smoothing groups it goes great with...

Polysmoother: http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/polysmoother/index.html
This lets you visualize your smoothing groups and work with them in a slightly more intuitive way.

Miauu's Spline Deform: http://miauumaxscript.blogspot.com/p/miauus-spline-deformer.html
Ever have a dense set of polys and you wish you could just use a few points to deform it? Yea this does that.

Polyline Pro: http://miauumaxscript.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
If you use splines, you should use this.

KitBasher: https://jokermartini.com/product/kitbash-blender/
Like the name implies and it's great. They did add some kind of library to 3dsmax recently but I haven't used it and it's lacking some features this has.

Welder: http://jokermartini.com/product/welder/
It makes weld geometry around two intersecting pieces. SAVES SO MUCH TIME, good results.

PolyUnwrapper: http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/polyunwrapper/index.html
Just enough unwrapping help to speed things along.

Maya
ModIt: https://gumroad.com/l/ModIt

sacboi

A ton of Maya stuff here, also Maya Hard Surface but TBH really wasn't difficult to find, just a simple 2min google search...

And recommended by @perna for 3ds Max.

jayantbhatt007

Andreicus said:

Do you mean to speed up the workflow ? 

Plugins:

Ninja Dojo ( works in both Maya and Maya LT ): http://www.bk3d.com/Ninja_Dojo/
Hard Mesh ( only works in Maya full version, it's basically Mesh Fusion ): http://http//www.hard-mesh.com/
PlugIt ( works in Maya full version ): http://https//gumroad.com/l/PlugIt

I only use Ninja Dojo

Tips & Tricks:

- Circularize tool to make circles on a mesh with 1 click
- polyRemesh+polyRetopo commands ( integrated into Ninja Dojo or you can use the console ) to retopo and weld together meshes after a boolean operation with just 2 click and some tweaking
- polyRetopo to retopo into quads ugly topologies from sculpting softwares or anything ugly

hi man saw ninja dojo tutorials on youtube really super cool script. Thank you so much.