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Simple Maya Question
I'm working with Maya Complete 5.0 and CPS - I'd like to have all my vertices centered at X = 0. I hope you understand, what I mean. For mirroring purposes, all my vertices should be in a straight "line".
In Smax, there´s a feature called "Make Planar" - You just grab the vertices you'd like to make planar, push the button and - tada - it's planar - of course, if you were in an orthographic view as you pushed it.
Unfortunately, I dont find any similiar way to accomplish that in Maya. I tried to select all vertices and adjusted the X values to zero but it doesn't seem to work the way I want. It still has weird rotation aspects applied, etc.
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Well, I guess you know that you dont have to mirror the geometry, since CPS creates a perfectly symmetric, mirrored clone of it.Originally posted by brian_ellebracht
if you figure out an easy way to do this llet me know... I usually mirror it, combine the polygons and then I do a merge vertices... If you do this dirrectly over the axis (0) then they will line up with each other on the 0 since it is mirrored. Make any sense? Hopeso. THanks,
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There has to be an option to do this - It's possible in Max since version... I dunno, but quite long I guess. It's a very simple process and very, very handy, so I guess it'll also be built into Maya.
You'd still have to merge the vertices, sure, but the geometry would be perfectly aligned and that's a big plus.
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Hold X for grid snap, hold V for point snap. Make sure your Move Tool is in World mode. Click and hold on (for example) the X direction (red) move handle and move it. It will then align/snap the line of vertices.
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Thanks, but, as far as I can see, that´s not a very good solution.Originally posted by mtmckinley
You can grid or point snap vertices to align with the grid or a point.
Hold X for grid snap, hold V for point snap. Make sure your Move Tool is in World mode. Click and hold on (for example) the X direction (red) move handle and move it. It will then align/snap the line of vertices.
If I do grid snapping, I'd have to do it for every single vertex seperately, because my vertices in this area are quite mixed up (from extruding, etc.) - So, is there really NO way to a planar command or something like that?
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Yes, but then it would not be planar while snapping to the grid. It would adjust the distance, but not making them planar!Originally posted by mtmckinley
You can do all the vertices at once.
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