Do Polygons Subdivide When You Press 2 Or 3?

[exood4studios]

Hello there. I'm using Maya 2008 and there's something strange. I don't know if it was meant to happen but any polygon that I create gets subdivided when I press 2 or 3. I know that NURBS and subdivisions do that kind of stuff but I never thought that a polygon would. Am I missing something? I remember converting my polygon mesh into a subdivision mesh and then undoing until it turned back into a polygon mesh.

[joojaa]

is juat one more subd workflow for you was added in maya 2008 (its so tht you can preview a mr/renderman sud assignemnt on screen). So now in maya you have a whopping 4 of them (but that make for about 16 different cobos you could sue them in).

Depends on your modeling style.

[exood4studios]

So it's a new feature that allows you to jump from low-res to hi-res with a touch of a button? I tried rendering the hi-res and it still is low-res after the render so I conclude that it's simply used for modeling convenience. What do you mean by "sud", "cobos" and "whopping 4" Jooja? Anyway, thanks again.

[joojaa]

sorry typo oon the srun subd combo and taht theres 4 subdivison schemes.

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Am I missing something?

what you do is you add a subdivision approximation on a polygon surface and mr will subdivide it even if its just a polygon. Now this offers a convenient way to do preview that. This si method 3

Yes Theres also a hotkey that works in maya and previous ones that will assign mesh smooth and toggle it to mesh and toggle both to visible in maya too. Thats just one facet of another option. this is method 2

Then theres the subd shape, wich iis a hirarchial surface. this is method 1

Method 4 is to nurbsify the polycage.