Maya, Can't bevel/copy and edge

Mane · Dec 2011

I am doing a tutorial from 3D palace, Ultimax Apocalypse. Here is video and i am trying to bevel a edge. Did everything, re-model but. i can't find what's wrong with this.

He first cut the faces, select the edge and use bevel, and he got copy from the edge.

malcolm · Dec 2011

Try it on a fresh cube and see if it works. It works fine for me.

MadnessImport · Dec 2011

You could have posted your second problem in your other thread

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92593

Anyway try dividing that big Ngon then bevel
Enable the command line it may tell you why you cant make the bevel

passerby · Dec 2011

it's the ngon causing your problem, maya doesn't know how it should be making the new edge(such as how many edges and verts should be in it)

just select the edge ring and do a connect, if you need it to match the exact angle of the pre-existing edge, just do a edge slide, and slide it right into the orgianl edge, than pull it back with the transform widget.

Mane · Dec 2011

What the hell is ngon? I tried on simple cube, and it is works.

Pola · Dec 2011

An ngon if you looked it up on like google would tell you something like its a polygon with more than 4 edges, which is something you usually want to avoid.

I made the shape with a cube then booleaned a cylinder through the corner, used cut face tool and when I bevelled the edge loop it worked fine. I'd try reseting your bevel settings and if that doesn't work play around with the settings like width. If no luck then it could be related to history or the size of you model/unit size in preferences.

Alternatively you should be able to do what passerby suggested which achieves the same result.

MadnessImport · Dec 2011

Beat me to it Pola lol

@Mane

It works on a simple cube because its perfectly divided into quads
Ngons are faces that have more than 4 vertexes per face they are usually bad and need be avoided

Example of N-gon:

Now divide that ish!

Maya, Can't bevel/copy and edge

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