Lowpoly to highpoly script?

Bokaja · Dec 2006

Hey all...I love pushing polys but still cant help but wonder if theres a script for 3ds max that "pop" the lowpoly shell to fit the highpoly mesh? It would save HUGE amount of time :O

Thx, Jakob

killingpeople · Dec 2006

http://www.hyperent.com/Hyp-Maxscripts.php

there is a script in this pack called "conform wrap" that does just that.

Bokaja · Dec 2006

Thank you

conte · Dec 2006

what are u guys talking about?=)

MoP · Dec 2006

snapping a low poly mesh around the outline of a high-poly mesh, quickly

Jarrod1937 · Dec 2006

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what are u guys talking about?=)

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"snapping a low poly mesh around the outline of a high-poly mesh, quickly [for normal map generation] ".

fmnoor · Dec 2006

So out of curiousity, has anybody made one for Maya? Maybe just wishful thinking

motives · Dec 2006

never tried this but curious how well this actually works? anyone tried it out?

MoP · Dec 2006

yeah, it works very well. i haven't tried it for snapping a full character or anything, but as a test I ran it on a 20,000 poly mesh, it snapped pretty much perfectly (although it took ages to see the result, Arshlevon gave a tip that you should use it only on groups of verts at a time, faster and easier to see if it's not snapping correctly).

Bokaja · Dec 2006

Hmm yes, it actually works quite well...I recall now I used some similar software some years ago? maybe also tims scripts? But this has way better math :P But it takes time! (havent tried it on a Core 2 Duo processor yet though)Ill try out the tip about groups of verts ^^...thx again!

dnorth · Dec 2006

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has anybody made one for Maya?

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yeah, there's a script out there called xyShrinkWrap that seems to work pretty well. I think I found it at highend3d.

Bokaja · Dec 2006

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Arshlevon gave a tip that you should use it only on groups of verts at a time).

[/ QUOTE ] Nice...Ummm how do I do that? Seems i can only select an object to conform my wrap on

Mongrelman · Dec 2006

I think he means select a bunch of verts on your low poly, then shrinkwrap it to the high poly object. Then select different verts on the low poly and repeate the process.

killingpeople · Dec 2006

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Arshlevon gave a tip that you should use it only on groups of verts at a time).

[/ QUOTE ] Nice...Ummm how do I do that? Seems i can only select an object to conform my wrap on

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before running the script, select a group of verts. then you will be prompted to choose which geo to conform to.

Bokaja · Dec 2006

top nice

...thx again for so many fast replies...any here ever sleep

Mark Dygert · Dec 2006

Not everyone shares your timezone heh...

I was really looking for something like this to be put in Max9, only more polished. Hopefully they will put in a service pack or something =/

Whargoul · Dec 2006

In Maya 8 there's a new transfer attributes tool that does it. It's so fast, you can drag your low poly mesh around and watch it slide along the high rez, pretty cool!

Daz · Dec 2006

Whargoul, that's sweet as, thanks! But how the heck do you get it work interactively like you describe? Can't quite figure that out.

Daz · Dec 2006

ignore me, I goddit, thanks. Cool as fuck btw.

Michael Knubben · Dec 2006

This should probably be possible in Silo as well, i think i'll give that a go right now. I've never even played around with the snap-tools yet, it's hightime i did

conte · Dec 2006

like Poly Draw=>Build in polyboost?

Lowpoly to highpoly script?

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