Beginner here, I'm trying to merge the vertices on this mouth but everything converges on 1 vertex. I tried hiding the faces to get to the vertex that was causing the problem and merged that one first before merging the rest, but it still causes everything to collapse to that vertex. Any ideas what might be the issue?
Wow can't believe I forgot to do that. It's Maya 2017. But yeah throttlekitty you solved the problem, I had the threshhold turned up since I was having problems vertex snapping earlier. It's always the simple things...
Yes, please do this ^ I can't tell from your picture what vertices you are trying to merge since you're not showing the selection. In any case, merge vertex in maya has a tolerance setting- it controls the distance of the merge. Setting it too high has unintended results like this, or accidentally using merge vertices to…