Trouble Merging the Two Halves of model together

[bflat]

Is there a faster way to do this than what I'm doing?
I build one half of the character, then mirror that geometry. Then, (I'm using polys), I select both halves and press combine. After that, I go through the long process of selecting each pair of verticies and having to click Merge Verticies.

I'm thinking the merge multiple edges tool is supposed to do it, but I can't consistantly get it to work.

[goggle]

You should be able to do the whole thing with one call to Merge Vertices. Get the to-be-merged vertices as close to each other as you can and then select them all.

Now go into Edit Polygons -> Merge Vertices -> Option Box and mess with the distance value. If two vertices are within that distance value of each other then they will be merged together. The closer you can get your to-be-merged vertices to each other the lower you can set that value.

Hope this helps.

-James

[badcookie]

Or...

before you mirror, snap all of your to-be-connected verts to grid, and make sure that the pivot point for the object is snapped to the same grid line...

then when you mirror geo, make sure that "merge with the original" is checked.

[skullnation]

or select the whole model and then go to merge multiple edges. Just make sure you delete any faces that may get merged in the mouth area before binding. Also make sure the tolerance is turned up if your having issues with the merge multiple edges command.