Maya polys-evenly distributed polys

[devdoka]

Hello all,
Ive got a poly surface.
The polys are not evenly distributed along the surface,
some areas have more polys than othes,which makes it hard for me to sculp it.
My Q is,ways of making a polygon object,or portion of it(selected faces) has evenly polygons.
For example i remember when you want to do something simillar to nurbs object,you rebuildem,so the isoparms have same distance each other without affecting the actual model.Looking for something similar for polys.
Any suggestions?
Something I`ve been missing ?
Well,thanks in advance guys.
Dennis

[guyb]

Try Polygons/average vertices.
repeat it few times or increase the iterations number.
Hope it helps,
Guyb.

[devdoka]

the average tool,smooths in a way,the vertex.
What I`m looking for is to re-build the surface with equal polys(nomatter quads or triangles).
Dennis

[joojaa]

You need to split them manualy im affraid. sice the computer has absolutely nn way of knowing what exactly you want (and even if it tried it would only get it horribly wrong), rebuilding is for parametric surfaces like nurbs.

but many tools like edge loop selectors exseits that make ths a breede! Nthing beats manual work you know.

One bad way of doing this would be to turn the object intu subdiv then tesselate it inasanely. turn to polys and use a reduce on it. but the result is absolutely non workable! Altough a vertexcloud to nurbs converter woul probably make a pretty deecent job...

[lady-j]

Hi, I don't know if this suggestion will help you...but one way of nicely moving poly's around is strapping a lattice to it and tweaking the lattice....then you can delete history when you get to a point that you can no longer move things correctly and create a new lattice as needed.

Also, I'm afraid guyb is right, I've run into this myself....and you just have to painfully get in there and split and tweak your poly's on the model as you need to....using the sculpt tool tends to be redundant for some jobs...

Otherwise...there's that great mel script in the modelling section of this sight that can be very useful, AND it'll keep everything in quads [which is nice if you ever get into sub_d's]...it's called connect Polyshape if you haven't already tried it.

When I ran into the problem you are having, I ended up remodelling my object using that script after I figured out how to use it efficiently....it was helpful for me, but you may be better off tweaking things like guyb suggested above.

hope this helps a bit! goodluck!
-j-