Mayas SubDiv

[waboflex]

Hi Mr. Bean,
Just wondering, ever tried working in subd hull mode? (Display -> Subdiv Surface Smoothness -> Hull). Seems to be something like what you're looking for, i.e. faceted display of the 'actual' subd surface, gaps and all when using finer detail locally. Ugly but real fast .

I didn't even know the option was there until I stumbled on it a month ago...

Wabo.

[geoffcrowther]

hehe

danke.

yeah, theres also the ability to display each level independently with isolate select, but it doesnt really speed up anything, especially when your working with blend shapes as the transforms still haveto be made.

i mean were running nowdays 1ghz + machines and i'm still having the same response time from my (well now subd models as i don't ever want to go back to mesh smooth) models and blendshape sliders as i did when I was running a p200? The really great thing about todays hardware is you can really do some spectacular realtime deformations on reasonably high poly count models, i'd just love to be able to use it as such with subds as its really a matter of adding one check box to the ui.

to haveto use a wrap deformer on a subd model is just wrong on so many levels.

[user_deleted]

And for some odd reason you can't change subd levels while in isolate select...Doesn't make sense.

[loial]

This was posted in another thread, thought it might help:

"...you can hide your subD model, go into poly proxy mode and go into the hypershade. Then display are connections and one of the nodes is the poly cage and another one is the subD model. Just apply them to seperate layers and toggle the visibility. If you make the sub D invisible and apply a texture to the poly cage, you will be able to see it like a low res poly model and then whenever you animate it or make adjustment, your subD updates. Hope this helps. Good Luck"

[user_deleted]

another odd thing is, when you have setup a character in subd, and no longer be able to go back to poly mode, however the UV of the poly remains like a ghost,. If you select all the level0 surface, the texture view shows ugly poly uvs unsorted...this clutters the TextureView and give me headaches....
You can't delete it either.....