Maya actually lets you save selection sets so that you can quickly and painlessly activate them later on. Your selection set is long gone, so you do it all again.īut it could have been avoided. All is well until ten minutes later when you realize you need to make a slight adjustment to your work. You go through the tedious process of selecting a complex array of faces, perform a few mesh operations, and then move on to the next task.

Have you ever had the following experience? Takes practices to get the most use out of it. It helps to have a Wacom graphics tablet, but it isn't something that's strictly necessary. Brush over the surface of your model to normalize the mesh.You can change the brush size (radius) and strength (opacity) under the brush tab. Under the Sculpt Parameters tab, choose the relax brush.Hold down the right mouse button until a menu appears, and choose Paint -> Sculpt.Select a polygonal object (must be in object mode).

The relax tool can be accessed as follows: If your organic models have a lumpy, uneven appearance, try giving it a once over with the relax brush. The relax brush attempts to normalize the surface of an object by averaging the spacing between vertices but doesn't destroy the silhouette of your model.

Although Maya doesn't (yet) have a true sculpting tool-set, there are actually a few basic sculpting brushes, the most useful being the relax tool. Beginners to organic modeling have a tendency to end up with “lumpy” models when they turn smoothing on.

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