Average Vertex Positions?

Mr GetDown

I can't work out for the life of me, how to average the distances between vertex positions.
First person to work it out gets a cookie!

MoP

What app?
In Maya, there's Mesh -> Average Vertices.
In Max, there's Relax modifier.

Quokimbo

MoP wrote: »

What app?
In Maya, there's Mesh -> Average Vertices.
In Max, there's Relax modifier.

What would this be used for?

Mr GetDown

Doh, forgot to say what app. 3DSMAX.
I'll try out relax, and get back to you.

Mr GetDown

Quokimbo - I'm adding details to a curved complex surface. And want to average the vertices I build apon so the end result looks smoother.

Mr GetDown

Relax works ok some situations, but it doesn't like 5 star points that much.
It's no big deal, I just wanted to know if there was a quick way to do it.
Thanks anyway

fr0gg1e

IF I got what you re asking right...



Flow Connect here

It s working on rings and partial edge rings (be creative and you ll be able to curve all surfaces you want hehe).

Mr GetDown

Thx for replaying
I think that will help alot for loop like edges. But what I wanted was closer to what the geopoly button does in polyboost, but not be limited to creating curlular shapes and its able to average vertices in clusters not just vertices connected by the same face.
So the distance from vertex to vertex is an average of all selected edge lengths between vertices.
For creating irregular shapes I think it's better to create the shapes separately as I can conform them to the original geometry too, then just loft/extrude and weld snap them onto original shape.

Thanks for again for the feedback guys

MoP

Hmm, "curlular" is a pretty awesome word, I might start using that!

Mr GetDown

Sorry it’s patented.

Got to remember to run a spell checker then Mop is around

*Runs spell checker