Max: Remove Edge loops plug in?

oXYnary

IS there a plug-in that someone can recommend that completely removes edge loops and their coresponding vertices? I can remove them now by selecting them with the edge loop button and hitting remove. However, it leaves the vertices behind.

Also, is there a good conform tool plug in? I tried the one in max, and it failed big time for the mesh I was attempting (turned it inside out and squahed the ends). I mean like one that will morph a mesh of a different topology/count as close to possible to one another. Shrinkwrapping if you will.

cholden

select the loops:
ctrl + backspace

backspace removes, with ctrl it gets the verts too

oXYnary

Damn thats so easy... Argh! (Again curses maxs lack of better shortcut information)

Thanks!

I guess that leave my second inquiry. Im having to manually snap vertices at this point.

animatr

i dunno about a pugin. but you can just select the edge loop, hold down control, and go into vertex mode, then go back into edge mode, remove, edges, go into vertex mode, remove. holding down ctrl saves the selection btw between modes. It can get a little ugly though, deleting certain verts that may mess up your mesh. nothing that isnt fixable, but still.

poopinmymouth

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select the loops:
ctrl + backspace

backspace removes, with ctrl it gets the verts too

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Hot dang I didn't know that. I was converting to verts first, then removing loops, then verts. Thanks Cholden!

fritz

hahaha. poop...i've been doing the exact same thing!!!

motives

... noobs

Ozymandias

Get polyboost, makes little things like that really easy

adam

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Eric Chadwick

There is a better conform, I'll try to dig it up tomorrow.

Noren

The Wrap-scripts written by Paul Hormis work pretty well.
http://www.hyperent.com/
Also, if your Mesh seams to flip when conforming, apply a Reset X-form to it and your targetmesh in order to check if they are perhaps mirrored.

Eric Chadwick

That's the one. We had problems with it in tight-detail areas, like the eyes, but it worked OK for the larger masses.

cholden

There's a lot of great things you can do with ctrl and shift clicking in max, experiment! :P

For example, in edge mode, select and edge, then click Loop. Ctrl click on polygon or vertex mode, and it will select all polygons or verts along that loop.

poopinmymouth

Yeah I was aware of that trick. If you try to convert between elements using ctrl+shift, you can get only the completely enclosed elements. So if you have two loops selected, and convert to faces with just ctrl, you get three rows of faces, the inside row, and both outside rows. If you convert using ctrl+shft click, you only get the inside row, because it was enclosed by the two loops.

Also this ctrl conversion works in the UV editor as well.

arshlevon

poop your such a noob! it was new to max 8, good reason to read the included "whats new" pdf. also just incase you didnt know, if you press "w" or select the little icon at the top that looks like a cross it allows you to move things around in all 3 axi, i would like to go more into it but i dont have enough time right now.

WHO KNOWS?!!!!!