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Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
this is pretty old, but I encountered hard edges that wouldn't switch to soft & no other fixes listed here worked. however, when I simply deleted one of the faces that the problem edge was supporting, and then filled the gap in again with Bridge, it behaved like any other edge from that point. also leads me to believe it… -
Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
Hey guys, I've made the transition from Max to Maya recently..and I've had a recurring issue that I've struggled with. Often when working with geometry in Maya, I get to a point where I cant soften edges. So far I've tried deleting history, freezing transforms, grouping the mesh to a dummy object, among other things. I was… -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
try Normals> set to face. then soften your edges? not sure why it does this im sure ive had this problem too. maybe something to do with the normals locked? perhaps someone can answer better than i can but hopefully the set to faces method works. the only down side is youll loose any edge smoothing your already done :( -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
Hmmm respawnrt I had already tried unlocking normals..in the past I've had that happen to me..but that isn't it. pinkbox I gave that a shot, that didn't work either. bugo Ahh interesting. I haven't sent this to max yet, but that may happen soon. I'm not too worried about losing smoothing groups from Max..All I'm trying to… -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
Usually when you send an .obj from max to maya, maya tries to lock the tangency normals to whatever it was before, this way you don't lose your "smoothing groups". If you unlock the normals you will have to redo the soft/hard edges. -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
pior I would if I could, but this is for something at work, so they probably wouldn't want me to do that. o2_is_alright Good point. Smooth preview still has hard edges. Also a point I forgot to add...this mesh has been passed between Maya and Zbrush a little bit..if that opens up any ideas. -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
Thought I would add on to this old thread as it still causes issues. dpaynter26 solution worked for me. The mesh was fine before export and had all its vertices welded, but upon re-import, it's almost like it splits the verts. Welding them all by a small amount fixed it. -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
So it's an issue with having the app open for extended periods?! https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/General-Troubleshooting-Steps-for-Maya.html -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
I can see these things: 1 - or you extruded the faces, merged the faces, and everything got messed up 2 - sometimes maya by extruding a face, or toying around with the mesh, maya likes to lock some of the normals, not sure which function does that. 3 - as I pointed out before, you could have exported from max to maya,… -
Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
next time this happens, go to vert mode and marquee select what you think is just one vertex and see if it says two on the overlay at the top if you have it turned on, then you'll know IF it's because you dont have merged verts and voila problem solved
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