[Maya] Does Quadrangulate really work ?

Orphydian

I have tried unchecking  the options and changing the angle but it doesnt do anything. Is this similar to Max Quadrify ?

poopipe

It's basically the same in principle.  It's maya though so doesn't work properly 

GlowingPotato

I never managed to get it working.

Orphydian

It seems its intended to work after you Triangulate your entire mesh then Quadrangulate all, much like a retopo thing. Not sure if its a bug or intended to work this way. With Max it works on individual faces.

SuperFranky

Bonus Tools> Modeling> Convert N-Sided Face(s) to Quads.

throttlekitty

what poopipe said. You can coax it into working by making smaller face selections at a time, try to avoid going over the boundaries of poles.

Mark Dygert

It certainly won't work with geometry that wasn't previously perfectly quaded. Even then it tries to remove the longest edge which is usually the diagonal line that was added by triangulation, but that isn't always the case so it usually screws up more than it gets it right.

I wish there was a way to plot guide lines or tell it what a dominate edge or ring should be. Similar to how you can guide zBrush unwrapping.

icegodofhungary

It's more of the opposite action of triangulate rather than "take this nsided face and fix it" kind of thing. Like if you import a triangulated mesh from a game engine, you would use quadrangulate. But even then it's a slave to vertex order and it can quad things the wrong way.