Maya Tubes/pipes and tessellation, how to achieve optimized results ?

GlowingPotato · Nov 2018

Hi,

I have the curve below, and I want to make a cable from it.

But I'm struggling to have the right amount of geometry at the curves. I can't find a good setting at the extrude tool to so i get less geometry at straight parts and more geometry at curved parts. Is this possible to do in maya ?

My best result is this, and it looks terrible....

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/5l/tqo6de3fsfei.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/zn/ug4u41rdl9zn.png

Does anyone have any tips from having a nice, smooth and optimized output geo cable/pipes ?

sprunghunt · Nov 2018

I suggest rebuilding your curve to have more even CVs . The tesselation option you're using divides your mesh in between each CV. More even CVs give a better result. (see my tweet below) Curve rebuild is under Curves>Rebuild

https://twitter.com/sprunghunt/status/1062445300923621376

onionhead_o · Nov 2018

if you wanted optimized tubes you can try curve to paint fx tubes. under Generate> Curve Utilities> attach brush to Curves

GlowingPotato · Nov 2018

onionhead_o said:

if you wanted optimized tubes you can try curve to paint fx tubes. under Generate> Curve Utilities> attach brush to Curves

That sounds good, gonna have a look, thanks.

Maya Tubes/pipes and tessellation, how to achieve optimized results ?

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