Maya Inset

RobotGilardi · Feb 2011

Mimics 3DStudio inset

Message me / post here if you find any bugs.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/poly-tools/c/maya-inset-tool

-Robot

haikai · Feb 2011

This is nice! Someone on Creative Crash posted a minor bug about it losing proportions in some cases, but for what I would normally use this for this works well. Thanks for sharing it.

RobotGilardi · Feb 2011

Updated!

- Edges even
- Works on weird shaped ngons
- Tool exits on finish
- Tool grouped in to one Undo

-Robot

IronHawk · Feb 2011

Trying this tomorrow with fingers crossed. A better extrude would be nice as well. Just something that works like any other modeling app other then Maya.

Lamont · Feb 2011

Only if Creative Cash was working. I can't log in.

Bal · Feb 2011

Oh nice, hadn't noticed it had been posted here, I'm one of the people who whined about n-gons on CC.
New version seems to work great, thanks! Been wanting a proper Inset in Maya for ages.

IronHawk, what's the extrude missing for you?

EDIT : Oh actually found a bug, seems to kill my undo queue now, can undo the Inset, but never anything before that, anyone else get a similar behavior?

RobotGilardi · Feb 2011

Glad you like it

Fixed The undo problem-
Maya undo queue is weird.

Version 4.1 only need to replace inset.pyc

Let me know if you have any requests for the tool

Current request list (for the next version)
-Add to Edit Poly Dropdown menu
-Fix Image cycle for select / deselect tool
-Better tool history
-Bevel option Better maya extrude(polygon normal, even distances) + this inset
-Tool options / attribute setup

-Robot

Lamont · Feb 2011

I still can't log in to DL it from CC... link?

Jason Young · Feb 2011

Lamont wrote: »

I still can't log in to DL it from CC... link?

Sent you a pm with a link.

iatriki · Mar 2011

nice tool! thank you! I was looking for something like this.

shogunato · Mar 2011

Nice tool !

tacit math · Mar 2011

fuck me ! this is working sweet so far dude. if it holds up over some further play. where can i donate you 20 bucks !!? !

sltrOlsson · Mar 2011

Cool stuff! One of them things i've missed from the start using it. Thx (:

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Trying this tomorrow with fingers crossed. A better extrude would be nice as well. Just something that works like any other modeling app other then Maya.

Added a split vert to the inset so you can get better extrude results - I'll add full extrude eventually

I still can't log in to DL it from CC... link?

Let me know if cc is still down, I can send latest version.

nice tool! thank you! I was looking for something like this.

Nice tool !

Cool stuff! One of them things i've missed from the start using it. Thx (:

fuck me ! this is working sweet so far dude...

Thanks! Glad you guys like the tool.

...if it holds up over some further play. where can I donate you 20 bucks !!? !

I added a paypal link to the last CreativeCrash download info if you feel like donating

Torch · Mar 2011

Don't want to hijack your thread, just that also I found another tool for Maya that mimics Max's shell modifier, check this out and see what you think:

http://hugobozzshih007.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-mel-tools-shell-modifier.html

McBradd · Mar 2011

Donated.

Keep up the great work. I've been whining about this forever...

tacit math · Mar 2011

donated

be great if you could tweak it so that it remains active until another mode / tool is entered ( with numerical input somewhere too ). currently it drops out of the tool on mouse release ( at tleast that's the behaviour i'm getting. and default selects move / translate )

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Don't want to hijack your thread, just that also I found another tool for Maya that mimics Max's shell modifier, check this out and see what you think:

That's awesome, are there more things you would like added like this?

Donated.

Keep up the great work. I've been whining about this forever...

Thanks! Let me know if you have any requests or if you need any other tools

donated

be great if you could tweak it so that it remains active until another mode / tool is entered ( with numerical input somewhere too ). currently it drops out of the tool on mouse release ( at tleast that's the behaviour i'm getting. and default selects move / translate )

Thanks! Same as above, if you have any requests let me know.

I did have the tool stay until another tool was entered but people didn't like it. I'll add a command to it so you can use whichever way you want.

Also, Is it alright to have a numerical input similar to the shell tool posted above? (At least for now) I can put that in pretty quick, but node history might take a little while.

Thanks again!

Robot

tacit math · Mar 2011

i can do without history personally. just a simple input for if you wanna get anal about applying the same inset to other faces somewhere down the line. but having the option to let the tool remain active is a must. make inset. tumble about the view. second guess yourself for a bit. tweak. carry on

abnoid · Mar 2011

RobotGilardi wrote: »

Mimics 3DStudio inset

Message me / post here if you find any bugs.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/poly-tools/c/maya-inset-tool

-Robot

RObotG fantastic script I love it! I tried it on windows is great. However I cannot figure out how to install this on Linux. Any ideas?

Thanks
Darrell

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

RObotG fantastic script I love it! I tried it on windows is great. However I cannot figure out how to install this on Linux. Any ideas?

Thanks
Darrell

Hmm...

I'm not sure - haven't tried it yet.

Try:
insetcmd.py here:
~/maya/<version>/scripts

inset.pyc here:
../files/lib/python2.4/site-packages/maya/

If that doesn't work let me know.

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

be great if you could tweak it so that it remains active until another mode / tool is entered ( with numerical input somewhere too ).

In the newest version you can specify exact distance and if you want the tool to exit

inset -d 1.5
// Insets faces 1.5 units

or inset -ax 0
//Starts tool and remains active until manually exited

Working on the other stuff still...

slipgatecentral · Mar 2011

can anyone please put it on dropbox or something?
I can't register on that site for some reason, and I really need this script, for the love of god!!!

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

I'll get an alternate dl tonight, check back later / tomorrow

ibarter · Mar 2011

slipgatecentral wrote: »

can anyone please put it on dropbox or something?
I can't register on that site for some reason, and I really need this script, for the love of god!!!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4593901/Maya.Inset.030711.zip

tacit math · Mar 2011

is the behaviour for inset -ax 0 i'm getting the intended : enter the tool. it remains active after inset. but the next clickDrag creates another inset. etc ?

also. the cursor is a finger pointer now ? ( as opposed to the 4 way arrows from before )

it would be great if the effect was to : enter the tool. middle mouse drag or whatever. but the editing nature of that remains active until another mode or tool is selected. so. not creating inset after inset. but having that initial inset editable until the tool is dropped. is this possible ?

in any case man. raw as it is it's still a VERY much needed addition to maya's modelling toolset

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

I see someone posted dropbox let me know if you still need a dl link

is the behaviour for inset -ax 0 i'm getting the intended : enter the tool. it remains active after inset. but the next clickDrag creates another inset. etc ?

also. the cursor is a finger pointer now ? ( as opposed to the 4 way arrows from before )

it would be great if the effect was to : enter the tool. middle mouse drag or whatever. but the editing nature of that remains active until another mode or tool is selected. so. not creating inset after inset. but having that initial inset editable until the tool is dropped. is this possible ?

in any case man. raw as it is it's still a VERY much needed addition to maya's modelling toolset

Yeah, that's intended. I can switch it, or add another option. The four way pointer didn't make sense cause the up/down functionality wasn't working how I wanted it. Had a few issues with history, and some people not having pycore - so right now i'm removing pycore and still trying to get a good node connection (If anyone has any suggestions on getting history / any script examples, please let me know)

I can set the tool to only be on mmdrag I believe, and I can set it to be default like other maya tools. Editing controls will all be there when node history works correctly.

-robot

McBradd · Mar 2011

Ok, I'm trying to get this to work with the Maya Bonus tools installed also, and I'm getting the error

// Warning: Failed to run file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2010/bin/plug-ins/insetCMD.py // 
// Error:  (insetCMD) // 
// Error: ImportError: No module named pymel.core // 
// Warning: Failed to run file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2010/bin/plug-ins/insetCMD.py // 
// Error:  (insetCMD) //

Suggestions?

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Yeah, it's missing the pymel lib. You can install it (see pymel reference in maya docs) but i'm in the process of removing it all together so you wont need to.

bugo · Mar 2011

THANK GOD AND YOU FOR THIS!

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Ok, I'm trying to get this to work with the Maya Bonus tools installed also, and I'm getting the error

Try latest version

Cr · Mar 2011

It would be awesome if your amazing tool could work on Maya 2009

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Try latest version

Er, now latest - I had wrong file up

It would be awesome if your amazing tool could work on Maya 2009

soon

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

IronHawk wrote: »

Trying this tomorrow with fingers crossed. A better extrude would be nice as well. Just something that works like any other modeling app other then Maya.

v4.5:

ibarter · Mar 2011

Nice, added new version to dropbox.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4593901/Maya.Inset.031411.zip

iatriki · Mar 2011

someone asked about the location on linux,
here's where I put the files:

inset.pyc to /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/lib/python2.6/site-packages/maya

insetCMD.py to /usr/autodesk/maya2011-x64/bin/plug-ins

&thank you very much for this very useful tool!

IronHawk · Mar 2011

Awesome thanks for this!

If you could solve this you would be uber champ!

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77089&highlight=bevel

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

You want the chamfer from 3ds max?

IronHawk · Mar 2011

Really liking how the tools you made are working. Nice and buttery like Silo.

A chamfer functioning like Max would be sweet however what I'm looking for is just for Maya to give accurate results on corner bevels. When creating any shape similar to the ones above the verts/edges go out of alignment along the bevel and require manual tweaking to fix. Most of the time its not all that noticeable but it can have a butterfly effect down the line and screw up alignment.

Thanks man!

- IH

RobotGilardi · Mar 2011

Ah, when I get time I can look in to it, been pretty busy lately though.

IronHawk · Mar 2011

That would be awesome man thanks!

malcolm · Apr 2011

Awesome, can you make it appear in the channel box so I can type in floating point values.

sl0throp · Apr 2011

I'll add in my thanks for this flagrantly missing easy functionality in Maya.

malcolm · Apr 2011

And well you're at it you can make a chamfer edge tool like max for smooth modeling. Byron's is great but crashes Maya all the time, especially when using undo or leaving history on an object.

RobotGilardi · Apr 2011

Awesome, can you make it appear in the channel box so I can type in floating point values.

When Time =\
Until then you can use -d

I'll add in my thanks for this flagrantly missing easy functionality in Maya.

Then don't use it

And well you're at it you can make a chamfer edge tool like max for smooth modeling. Byron's is great but crashes Maya all the time, especially when using undo or leaving history on an object.

Same as before, when I get time...

malcolm · Apr 2011

I second tacit math suggestion. It would be great if the base functionality was to middle mouse drag to edit the active inset rather than creating a new one each time the button is released, perhaps you could hit y or numerical enter to accept the inset and then start a new inset. I find I like to enter extrusion tools and then pan around to a different view to make sure I have extruded/inset to the right depth, wouldn't need the channel box stuff so much if this feature were in.

Illusions · Jul 2011

Noticed a potential feature while watching The Dozer DVD by Eat3D (the parts where grids of holes on the outer armor and front scoop are created by selecting and insetting rows of polygons). Unless I've missed it somewhere, a toggle like the current Maya "Keep Faces Together" would be a good addition for both the extrude and inset.

This script is an excellent time saver regardless though. Thanks for adding it to the Maya modeling tool arsenal.

m4dcow · Jul 2011

In Maya 2012 the offset option in the extrude behaves like this script (and how it always should have).

I'll say thanks again for this script because I did get alot of use out of it before 2012.

Maya Inset

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