Turbosmooth equivilent in Maya?

fattkid

Hey guys,

I'm a Max user and I'm switching to Maya. I'm curious if there is some sort of way to mimic the turbosmooth modifier in Max. Primarily, the way you can set turbosmooth to respect smoothing groups. It's a nice tool for my ZBrush hard surface workflow, so I'd hate to loose it.

bugo

Yeah, you do, press "3" on the keyboard and you will see smooth preview going on. You wont need to apply until you want to, so it's not an stack like max, but it's better because you can press "1" and "3" all the time and see whats going on.

You can go to the attribute editor and on the "shape" go to smooth preview options, there's an option to choose hard edges, etc.

You can also use crease edges to make the edge, vertex selected to crease, instead of relying on smooth groups.

fattkid

Awesome! Thank you kindly!

bugo

no problem.

Dubzski

I know its an old thread, but i'm learning Max to Maya and this is a great bit of information. Its all about knowing where the right box's/sliders and options are!

Tzur_H

Since you've already brought this up... I may add that you can add / subtract the number of divisions by pressing the Page Up / Page Down keys while in preview mode (3).

Jamsketch

@Tzur_H I didn't know that. thank you.