maya: select edges in crevices?

Sa74n

hey everyone.

i'm looking for a way to quickly select edges in crevices, like in the image posted below. i'm tired of selecting them manually :poly121:

any ideas, scripts, plugins that will help me out?

whipSwitch

not sure exactly what your asking, but I use the ctrl-rmb marking menu religiously, it has all the ring,loop, convert slections tools in it and makes selecting all the hard to get components much much easier, and it support multiple sets of selctions.(i.e. select random edges on different part of the model and ctrl-rmb>edge loop>select edge loop and SHAZAM! it selects all the loops associated with the each of the selected edges.)

hope that helps

claydough

autodesk's modeling with math video had something that should werka similar script would do what u want. ( get the edge's face wing angles dependent on nomals towards or away )

sorry don't have the time to write or test as much

claydough

wasted a dominance war day coding like a big dummy:poly127:

done...
seems to werk fine

select objects and run dis here script:
use me

claydough

kinda nice..
depending on yer model complexity crevice selection can be used fer quickie AO fake


run script to select crevices:


convert dem to vrts and apply a dark vertex color to fake AO:


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about 10 seconds on this 4500 tri model ( selection of crevices )...
However very slow to run with hi poly counts! ( 7 minutes on 20,000 tris )

Sa74n

awesome. i'll try it out first thing tomorrow. cheers, man

claydough

Now a bit faster and with a progress bar to assure end user that Maya hasn't crashed ( on hi tri counts )

download

Another kinda nice:

overclock muscalature:

shift select crevice vrts to get the inverse ( the hills ):
then editMesh> transform component or jes normal tool ( pump up the hills )

claydough

again exagerated overclock

Froyok

Bump from the ashes, anyone have still the script ? The link is dead...

claydough

Sorry...
For the delay in response to PMs. I have been really busy.
( I am thinking of changing my user name to Dead Link )


try the following link:
https://sites.google.com/site/clydough/cly_hillOrValley.zip

( did a successful quick test in Maya 2015 sp3 )



PM me if there r any other needed tools that r now orphaned and I'll post the link asap
( haven't tested other scripts in newer versions of Maya tho )

Froyok

Almost 3 years later, but heh, I'm glad there is a functional link now...