Maya Pelting tools plugin - Help needed

CastratedWeasel

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Jay Evans

I don't know anythign about the pelting pluging, but you should check out roadkill for maya sometime, If you havent already. Makes unwrapping weird shapes very easy.

http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/page8.htm

CastratedWeasel

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throttlekitty

This isn't something I've ran across before. Does it work properly if you route slightly around those edges? i.e. the top-left-most circled area, the triangle inside the quad, try using the outer side of that quad instead. Also, it looks a bit like a smoothing error in that area, the nearly black triangle, almost as if there's some bad welds inside the mesh, or a secondary edge.

BeatKitano

Looks like you have some double edges in there, you should make a clean up of any non manifold geo.

CastratedWeasel

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CastratedWeasel

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throttlekitty

CastratedWeasel wrote: »

Is there a way to check for non manifold geometry. Ive had a good look at the model and cant see any double edges. This model is a high poly from mudbox reduced in meshlab if that makes any difference.

And it works if i route around the affected edges but id stilll rather be able to choose the seams that i need.

Thx guys

Mesh>Cleanup
For a first go, check Select rather than cleanup, it will point out problem areas. Good to hear about roadkill

PolyHertz

The cleanup function doesnt take care of double edges, for me at least.

If you find thats true for yourself heres a script I threw together few days ago. It saves your selection so it can be used at any time during the modeling process, though is a little finicky with edge selections sense it changes their order when performed.

(Why arn't code tags working?)


///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Script name: EdgeSeal
//Author: Greg Gardner (aka PolyHertz)
//Contact: garder.GJ@gmail.com
//Last update: Jul/17/2009
//Version: 1.0
//Comments:
//Currently because of point order changes, edge selections that are 2 or less edge lengths away from either a
//border or any double edges will sometimes not store correctly. Thankfuly the point order changes do not affect face
//selections, so I have used a combination of component conversion and the shrink/grow function to regain the
//original selection. But this method as mentioned doesnt fully solve the problem and is a temporary fix until I can
//determin a more accurate way of re-selecting them.
//
//Also, If anyone knows of a way to select components based on their x/y/z position alone please let me know.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


//stores the current selection based on point order for later.
string $curSubSel[] = `ls -sl`;

global proc EdgFxGlobe()
{
//stores the current object name
string $curSelObj[] = `ls -sl`;
//selects all the objects verts via object-vert conversion
PolySelectConvert 3;
//splits and re-merges verts
polySplitVertex;
polyMergeVertex -d 0.0001;
//deselects the verts and the object and reselects it
select -cl;
selectMode -o;
select -r $curSelObj;
}

global proc myCurEdgs()
{
//converts selected edges into verts then faces and saves the selection
PolySelectConvert 3;
PolySelectConvert 1;
$theConvFaces = `ls -sl`;
//deselects the faces, goes into object mode, and calls the EdgFxGlobe global procedure
select -cl;
selectMode -o;
EdgFxGlobe;
//re-selects the faces from before, converts them to edges, and shrinks to get original edge selection
selectMode -co;
selectType -pe true;
select $theConvFaces;
PolySelectConvert 2;
PolySelectTraverse 2;
}

//for when an object is selected but is not in a component mode
if(`selectMode -q -o`)
{
EdgFxGlobe;
}

//for when in vert component mode
else if(`selectType -q -pv`)
{
select -cl;
selectMode -o;
EdgFxGlobe;
selectMode -co;
selectType -pv true;
select -r $curSubSel;
}

//for when in face component mode
else if(`selectType -q -pf`)
{
select -cl;
selectMode -o;
EdgFxGlobe;
selectMode -co;
selectType -pf true;
select -r $curSubSel;
}

//for when in edge component mode
else if(`selectType -q -pe`)
{
myCurEdgs;
}