Retopologizing/reducing the sides of a cylindrical mesh

Yonderboy · Dec 2016

Hi, I always run into this issue and was wondering if there was an easy technique to help...

I often find myself modelling something (in this case some binocular lenses) I start out with a cylinder with 20 sides, and by the end would like to reduce it to perhaps 16 or less. Its easy to simply halve the sides by removing every other edge loop, but i was wondering if there was a way /tool to equally redistribute a lesser (or even higher) number of edge loops? The only way I know of at present it to simply start from scratch with a new cylinder :-/

I hope that makes sense.

thanks for any help!

Nick

huffer · Dec 2016

Yes there is! sort_circle_tool for Maya: vimeo.com/65246315 (download in comments, it works best with border loops)
And Loop regularizer for 3dsMax: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/loop-regularizer

Yonderboy · Dec 2016

thanks! - Ill take a look - forgot to mention - its maya I'm using

Yonderboy · Dec 2016

hmm - don't seem to be able to download it there any more

found it!

Yonderboy · Dec 2016

haven't managed to get it working. Is it similar to 'Spherize Selection' tool? Its cool - but Im not sure it does what Im after (unless I'm mistaken?)

hazard668 · Dec 2016

In Max you can create shape from selected edge loop, then use "Lathe" modifier to create a mesh with any number of sides by rotating this shape around axis. I hope similar technique can be used in Maya.

Retopologizing/reducing the sides of a cylindrical mesh

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