maya6 preserve uvs when splitting polygons?

rooster

in max if you cut a shape into a poly, the resulting shape is transferred to the uvs and you get no distortion. When I cut a shape into a textured polygon in maya (not just a single straight line) it wrecks it.. is there any option, or plugin, that fixes this? its going to be a real pain in the arse if I have to make every cut a single straight line, then clean up the unwanted cuts each time..
cheers!

motives

gonna be pain in the ass.. PLEASE prove me wrong someone

the split polygon tool shouldnt distrot your UV's thought. Only when you move the edge after the cut. How are you going about this?

rooster

click on the edge of the polygon ( a quad ), click in the middle of it, click another edge. fwoom, feckd uvs

Gizmo

Version 7> preserves uvs, probably version 6.5 also.

rooster

just my luck. cheers

Steve Schulze

I think I might have a link to a suitable script for earlier versions of Maya at work. I'll track it down tomorrow.

motives

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Version 7> preserves uvs, probably version 6.5 also.

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eh, where is that function?

malcolm

Never heard of this problem and I do that type of cutting of quads all day. Can I see a picture?

fmnoor

I'm not sure how different Maya 6 is, but when I had this problem in 7, it was usually due to construction histroy. Usually fixed it by just deleting all history for the selected object. If you have deformers or clusters you might want to specify that though.

rooster

new polygon plane, maya 6.0:


edit: if you look in the uv editor it has cut a straight line from the first point to the last ignoring the middle one

malcolm

Apparently I don't have Maya6 installed any more, I thought I did. I tried it in Maya7 and it seems to work fine but this problems seems familiar so perhaps it was a fix that made it into 6.5?