Maya - split edges in uv map to hard edge?s?

ENODMI · Jun 2010

So I've laid out my uvs and split edges where I plan to have hard edges. I should have just hardened them while in the process of uv-ing. My model is currently all soft edges, is there a quick way to use the split edges from the UVs to define the hard edges on the model? I really cringe at the thought of manually selecting all these edges again:poly127:

ajr2764 · Jun 2010

Hello. I believe that in the UV editor you can select the edges where you have the splits and it should select them in the perspective view then you can set them to hard edges. You should be able to select the uvs as well and convert them to the contained edge selection.

ivars · Jun 2010

- In the UV editor, select all UV:s
- Convert selection to UV-borders.
- In the 3d viewport, convert the selection to contained edges.

If you by any chance would like to go the other way around, selecting all hard edges, to split the UV:s, you can do that using conditions in select > select using constraints

ENODMI · Jun 2010

Thks Ivars, just what I was looking for!

MoP · Jun 2010

If you use the script editor to listen to this, you can script it quite easily. I can probably throw something together tomorrow night if you want an easy shelf button for "harden edges on UV seams".

throttlekitty · Jun 2010

edit: read the request backwards.

c22dunbar · Oct 2011

this doesnt work for me.

i select all of the UV points, then go to select shell borders and finally convert selection to containing edges.

but it does what it says: selects all edges that are contained by these points. including edges that go through the whole shell like here:

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any idea how to fix that?

Maya - split edges in uv map to hard edge?s?

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