XSI move/slide equivalent in Maya

unclestan

Herrow - I was watching a Gnomon video by Vitaly Bulgarov and i noteced that he would freely move points around without changing the shape/siloette of the object he was working on. he did this ALOT.
Pretty sure he called it turning "move/slide" on. I am looking for an equivalent to this in Maya.

I have already found "Slide Edge" in maya, and that is what i am looking for, but i need to be able to slide verts or faces as well, in perspective, without the components flying off.

For instance, Ill do a vert tweak in perspective mode, only to turn the camera and find that my tweak only looked right before i moved the camera.

Example from his tutorial vid. He started with a normal sphere, but moved the verts very quickly to achieve the kind of warped wavy poly flow shown in the first picture. but the shape remains spherical, the siloette has not changed.



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IS THIS POSSIBLE IN MAYA????????????1

bugo

Yes and no

No you cant slide by just turning "slide" on
Yes you can duplicate your mesh and use transfer attributes with vertex position on to get the mesh applied to follow the mesh reference.

You also can use the plugin called NEX www.draster.com which does exactly what you want and more ( kinda discontinued and buggy)

Hope that helps

unclestan

hmmmm.. yes i have heard of Nex - ill check it out thx. ive seen it used for retopology.... but yes i wish Maya had something like move/slide in XSI!


damn my pictures didnt post o well

unclestan

By iinventedthewalr at 2010-08-24


By iinventedthewalr at 2010-08-24

haiddasalami

In maya 2011, there's a transform component tool under edit mesh. Think thats what you're looking for.. Only thing is it's a one time thing so if you want to just turn it on and do stuff then turn it off then you're probably out of luck/have to script something if possible

unclestan

hmmm.. ill try to snag 2011 right quick and try it. thx mang .. I just think this type of adjustment is so powerful, especially for curving surfaces

and @bugo thx a ton, I found that slide tool in Nex and it works pretty well. But it is kinda buggy atm

unclestan

@haiddasalami So i tried the transform component tool in Maya 2011. It will def be useful but it was not what I was looking for.. Transform Component simply moves the selection by its averaged normal, where as i was looking for a tool that moved the components, but also attempted to preserve the original shape/siloette of the object.
darn. but thx anyways!

question is still open i suppose ?

pior

Yup, Nex is your answer...