Rounded box (polys)

[cyclesh]

i wonder ! this day i noticed i cant make just a simple rounded box in maya out of polys , like a chamberbox in max!?
thats crazy , bevel destroys geometry , if i have more than 1 uv subds
and smooth is only a tricky way ...
any suggestions??
thx

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[pbuckley]

Unfortunately Maya doesn't have half of the inbuilt primitives and extended primitives of Max, If you want it you either have build it by hand, find some mel scripts written by clever people or import it - although for this example what exactly is wrong with using the smooth function?

[geoffcrowther]

1. make box
2. convert to subds
3. play with subds till you get just the right edge roundness (try partial crease, add levels whatever)
4. if you want polys tesselate out to polys (subd menue)
5. if you dont like the number of polys you tesselate out use the extract verts thing in subds and select the level you want to extract the poly on (i dare you to extract verts on the 12th level...i dare ya! hehehe ).
6. if you really dont like that you can use polygon/reduce on both the subd poly proxy model or your extracted poly model

p.s. with subds you can make all the primitives (well to a lesser or greater extent)

if you dont like that there is a script out there that adds most of maxes primitives (well actually nendo like primitives) to maya...that may get you closer to what you want (unfortuantely i can't remember the name).

[pbuckley]

Why does everybody assume that everybody else has access to Unlimited??

[geoffcrowther]

oki.

p.s. the above only works if you have unlimited

hehe

[mestela]

Using the polysmooth modifier should get you a similar result anyway.

-matt