Buttonholes ?

[ankuragarwal]

How to make buttonholes, for a shirt that I'm making. I don't know if the question may be naive or not, but I think that it boils down to how to make a hole in cloth. I'm using Maya 5.
Thanks for any replies in advance, even if they are to upbraid me at my ignorance.

[drblacksnake]

depends on effects You want to acheive. If You don't plan to unbutton them, then best solution is to use texture. Otherwise I'd avoid using cloth as rendermesh, because buttoning thing involves complex methods to simulate.
Anyway, if Your plan is just to do cloth model, then for beginning figure out how to make single patch of cloth with hole. From panels in 2x3 or 3x3 laid out. Goodluck.

[ankuragarwal]

Yeah, I wanted to animate unbuttoning. So, whats the best way to make buttonholes ?

[rival2000]

what are you making the cloth with? I mean i guess if you were making it out of a poly mesh you could just delete a face and there you have a hole, move two opposite vertices on that hole closer together and you have a slit, then turn it into a cloth object and maybe it'll work huh?

By the way... Your post title looks like... the word without ON in the middle at first glance... sorry