importing sculpted objects into maya

Moshbeast

Hiya I sculpted a few bricks in mudbox and want to stack them up to form walls in maya at which point I will model a low poly plane around them and bake it. Each brick would be between 15k and 60k polys so having around 20-30 bricks in a scene really slows maya down. So I was wondering if there are any ways for me to simplify the models or rather have them displayed in a simpler fashion so it doesn't take me 30 minutes to get them into position

zakhar2

You can render them as points or bounding boxes, but theres probably and even easier way to do it.

tristamus

If the bricks are all the same, use Model instancing

JR

On the panel menu, Shading>Bounding box. Everything will be displayed as transparent boxes.

Or if you want to show only the bricks as bounding boxes, go to the Attribute editor, and search for "Drawing overrides" section. Enable "Overrides" and choose "Bounding box" on the "Level of detail" field.

Moshbeast

cheers this will really help

gray

f your in maya 2011 , 2012 you can use viewport 2.0. Render->viewport2.0 in the model window menu.

Moshbeast

yea i use maya 2012 unfortunatly switching to viewport 2.0 crashes maya for me but using bounding box works like a charm

gray

hmm that's to bad.

also there is yet another option for working with large geo sets. you can turn on
shadeing->interactive shadeing. in the viewport menu. this will render your movement in wireframe/bbox/points but still keep your view port shaded. just check the options. zbrush has a this view mode.

MadnessImport

Id like to add that if you open the Interactive shading Options and set it to Bounding box you can get the best of Bounding box mode when moving and Shaded mode when still

Moshbeast

uhhh interactive shading is awesome thank you so much

claydough

Have you tried the "performance settings" options yet? Try the "Refresh on Release" setting.
Window > Settings/Preferences > Performance Settings > "Refresh on Release".

However, hopefully u would not need to settle with a buggy viewport 2.0 environment. ( have you researched your card and drivers? ) Perhaps Autodesk will have some new viewport joy in a few days @ GDC as well.

Moshbeast

thx for the tip with refresh on release and yea my drivers are up to date and card is working fine