Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 1 07-02-2012 , 06:50 PM
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nurbs to poly workflow?

hi all

I am doing some nurbs modeling because I want to cut some precise shapes out of some double-curved surfaces

I am wondering how to get back into poly and use the sweet smoothing options on that side, rather than try to figure out fillets and such on the nurbs side

but when converting to poly, I get a less-than-ideal topology for adding loops, extruding, and smoothing--and when I do smooth, I get little artifacts here and there, from the above mentioned topology issue

anyone have any advice on improving this workflow? or perhaps, another workflow altogether? (sub-d surfaces?)

thanks very much!

LML

# 2 07-02-2012 , 07:44 PM
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You are never really going to get ideal results cutting holes (trimming) and then trying to convert back to poly's.

The best workflow would be to use the advantages you get from the nurbs to create the object including the holes and then retopologize by drawing polygons with the correct topology using the nurbs surfaces as a guide (you can make them live).

You can also make them very dense, then convert them to polygons, then export them to a retopo package to do the retopology.


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# 3 08-02-2012 , 02:04 PM
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did you try different configurations into the nurbs to poly convert node, like activating advanced tesselation?

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