after collected some feedback from user, I added more options.
- increase max control points to 500
- curve type Bezier or Nurbs
-arc option: make arc curve or follow edge loop shape
-snap option: snap edge loop points to curve position.
-even option: distribute even space
-support full circle edge loop ( a bit buggy when there is not enough control points)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVPFzWimew
Recently, I need to make many models with a cylinder kind shape. One of the steps is to mirror it to see how it looks quickly, so I need to select half and mirror half constantly, especially objects, is not in the world origin. Another annoying thing is when the mirror always needs to check(think) is a positive or negative value. I slowly reduced it down to two buttons, one quickly select half side, use my current selection. One mirrors it without the need to check positive or negative values.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0ox83jX8o
global slider - reduce shape deform with curve normal direction, algin to world XYZ axis.
fan slider - control distortion deformation
division slider - control poly bridge divisions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui822zu16FU
SpeedCut + RapidStamp + RapidScrews time lapse,
maya boolean workflow
hard surface modeing time lapse
with SpeedCut + RapidStamp + RapidScrews
Render with Redshift.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4t1fbgihaI
Maya Poly Modeling Tool R&D - Edge Deformer
It use selected edge loop and turn it curve with wire deformer
, help reshape mesh, using slider to easy control dropoff, rotation and scale.
also slide to change number of control point as need.
original idea from CurvEdjeDeformer.mel by Fedor Solovjov
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKcxEpUhok
Maya Poly Modeling Tool R&D - mesh line up
sometime we change design and we need to re line up mesh with even space. this tool use screen space to find mesh order then even the space in 3d world. also work for rotation tool even angle of rotation between first and last mesh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WO5eCm7jQ
R & D, panel line maker, worked on a version a few years ago and got stuck as it was not very usable for more complex shapes besides some spheres and cubes; I updated/used new sweep mesh to improve curve quality.
Still have lots of problems with very sharp corners and generated lines with inverse normal. These causes can be easily manually cleaned up, but I prefer not to.
The good thing about creating a line with mesh is I can change any UV without redrawing the line or changing shape and still recreate the same line with the same cutters.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njf3U76t2gI
please turn on subtitles for the explanation.
The new stamp type allows user to create a small group of items and pack it under a cage shape when stamp it will use a cage shape to do the boolean and contents can be positioned or rotated after the stamp.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhSqeupwPOA
-tool to increase/decrease polygon density with quad, reduce unnecessary polygon and keep polycount low.
- fix triangle and ngon( 5 sides) into quad, better result when smoothing polygon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12vvO_RA2Sk