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1. Re: Face weighted normals

   

   Reply by kodde · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I actually almost finished a script for doing this in Maya and then realized that this functionality already exists in 2013. Could still be useful in 2012 and older. It still has a king that needs fixing and it's really slow (40sec for 10k tris) so I'm not sure I'll bother releasing it. Learned a couple of things by…

2. Face weighted normals

   

   

   Topic by Scruples · Jun 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Discuss face weighted normals. (or FWN for short) Oftentimes I wonder why certain features are left out of the major 3d packages, and usually I will figure out why it was ignored. But this time I am having a hard time understanding why no-one uses face weighted normals, it isn't something terribly new ID has been using it…

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   Reply by cptSwing · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   There are a couple of scripts for Max to do this as well (I use an old one by SyncViewS LINK )

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   Reply by m4dcow · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Mig Normal Tools is a really good Maya script for dealing with vertex normal manipulation. http://migugi.net/mel/normalTools/

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   Reply by dirigible · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Great stuff, passerby! That's actually a super useful script. I really need to learn mel, some day.

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   Reply by JohnnyRaptor · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Some nice stuff Scruples! thanks for sharing, Anyone got a script for us stoneage ppl still using Maya 2011?

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   Reply by WarrenM · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Farfarer has put together a script that does this for Modo users! I've been using it for a few days now and it works really nicely! http://forums.luxology.com/topic.aspx?mode=Unread&f=83&t=76447#NewPost

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   Reply by Scruples · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Amisima pointed out this script for 3ds that a member of Cgtalk Lehm2000 posted a few months ago in this thread. Your mesh has to either be an editable poly or have an edit poly modifier as the last stack.

9. Re: Face weighted normals

   

   Reply by dirigible · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah reading the link in the original post, that's exactly what it does. Literally multiply vertex normal contribution by surface area of the face it belongs to. If anyone knows of a maya script / plugin that could do this, I would be eternally grateful.

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    Reply by dirigible · Oct 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

    You would need a script. Maya's normal editing tools are fairly lacking. The best you could do with built in tools is select the vertex normals and swivel them to point the direction you want, manually.