Changing Maya's default smoothing algorithm to match Redshift

Ashervisalis

My work uses Redshift, which apparently has a different smoothing algorithm to Maya's default OpenSubdive Catmull-Clark.

In Maya's default smoothing, border and corner vertices are not pulled. In Redshift smoothing, all verts are pulled to the next vert, whether or not it is a border vertex. This requires support loops to hold the edges. I'm wondering if there is a way to set Maya to apply this same smoothing algorithm (default settings, not per mesh), as this algorithm is how all our final meshes come out.

Unsmoothed object on the left, smoothed object on the right.

sprunghunt

set the "vertex boundary" to "sharp edges" in the opensubdiv controls on the mesh to get the "square becomes circle" effect. 

There's a bunch of controls under the shape node in "smooth mesh" that you might want to adjust.

Ashervisalis

Thanks @sprunghunt Yeah, I ran into those controls previously. There isn't a way to set this option as the default, is there? A lot of meshes pass through my hands every day and it would be cool to not set that each time.

sprunghunt

Ashervisalis said:

Thanks @sprunghunt Yeah, I ran into those controls previously. There isn't a way to set this option as the default, is there? A lot of meshes pass through my hands every day and it would be cool to not set that each time.

You could use the attribute spreadsheet to do this but the easiest way is to create a script that does this. 

I was feeling generous so I wrote a quick script for you and put it here: 
https://www.artstation.com/dankeating/blog/dKOZ/quick-script-for-changing-smoothing-values-across-multiple-objects

Ashervisalis

You're my hero!!!