Maya 2014 - Can Quad Draw Create UV's Like 3D Coat does?

CarlK3D · Apr 2013

Ok so for reference I was previously using 3D Coat for doing my re-topology since it also Lays out new UV's so there no need to manually unwrap after retopo. Maya 2014 and its new "Quad Draw" feature however I found it doesn't layout UV's like 3D Coat does so my question is...

Is it possible to have it layout UV's?
my initial answer was no but I just want to be sure before I decide on either Maya 2014 or 3D Coat for Character Retopo.

Thankyou!

CarlK3D

CarlK3D · Apr 2013

I'm guessing no one have tried Quad Draw yet?

oglu · Apr 2013

3dcoat isnt doing uvs during the retopo... i assume you used some uv tools afterwards...

there is no way to smooth the mesh during retopo in maya...
so quad draw is useless for me...

Froyok · Apr 2013

Quad draw is what is name is telling : a tool for drawing quads. Nothing more.
For UVs in Maya you have to use the default tools made for that.

Joopson · Apr 2013

oglu wrote: »

there is no way to smooth the mesh during retopo in maya...
so quad draw is useless for me...

What do you mean?

oglu · Apr 2013

there is no feature in maya that is able to smooth/relax the new retopo mesh on top of the underlying highpoly mesh... make live and other workarounds with the new modeling tools are to slow...

you need a plugin for... diamant tools or retopoG is able to do that..
without that feature its no fun to do retopo work in maya...

http://rd3d.com/dtools/
http://retopog.com/

JohnnyRaptor · Apr 2013

ah man, that retopoG looks awesome! get me on the beta! :0

Froyok · Apr 2013

What I'm currently doing is using the Relax tool from the Sculpt Geometry tool, then I re-project my geometry on my live mesh with the transfer attribute. (I don't use the smooth tool because it doesn't preserve the edge border.)

It's not perfect or even fast I must admit, but it do most of the work.

Example :

Maya 2014 - Can Quad Draw Create UV's Like 3D Coat does?

Replies