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1. Get polygon normal in maya (MEL or Python)

   

   Topic by Brice Vandemoortele · Oct 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi guys. This is probably a very common problem, but I can't find any useful resource on the web :/ I'm building a script that check the visibility of all the faces of a model from a certain camera angle and deletes them if needed. In this case 'visibility' is just testing if the face is 'facing' the camera, not an actual…

2. Re: Get polygon normal in maya (MEL or Python)

   

   Reply by greuh · Oct 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   careful about that polyInfo as it will give you the normal orientation pre-transform IIRC. Also, depending what you're aiming at, you'll have trouble to get the normal you're interested in for non planar n-gons (4+ edges). I can dig up some stuff from scripts I've made if you want to do it the hard way if you're interested.