Bevel Mel Script Repacement

[mromey]

Has anyone seen a mel script that can replace Maya's PolygonEdit/Bevel tool. I'm having two difficulties with the polygon bevel tool. I'm using the bevel tool procedurally to take a give edge and convert it from one edge to two parallel edges a given distance apart. The problem I'm having is that sometimes and not all times the tool doesn't produce predictable results for all edges. Sometimes the Bevel tool will convert a quad to a triangle when it's not necessary. Or will simply split a quad unpredictably. Which forces me to clean up the mess by using Quadragulate, Cleanup, Append Polygon and Complicated Selection sets. Honestly I'm trying to work very procedurally and the fact that the Bevel tool doesn't produce consistent results is really bugging the !&@# out of me. Also the UV degradation of the Bevel tool also chaps me.

Anyone have a procedural replacement to the bevel tool (Mel Script)?

If I'm forced to use the bevel tool on a complicated high polygon count model how can I easily fix the UV's of the model (Mel Script) ?

Mike

[terraformers]

Me too!
It would be the SINGLE greatest script on planet maya!

anyone?

lars

[joojaa]

Yes i think theres asomething that might do something awfully like this in mjpolytools!

[dannyst]

MJ polytools is close to what you need, but it is percentage based rather than distance. I am working on enhancing it now. I have it so you can do this via distance, and am working on getting it to take the resulting coplane created and making it a bevel. It is about 90% functional, but I am working on some bugs right now.

One thing that MJ doesn't do well is handle a coplane that goes around a corner. The inside corner on the coplane is problematic unless you prep the geometry beforehand. I have added a method that preps the geometry for a given selection also.

If I could just sort out a few simple selection issues and some scriptCtx stuff I think it would be very functional. Unfortunately, there are some limited cases where MJPolytools is goofy and hence my enhancements are goofy as well, but I am close.