Unfortunately, it looks pretty choppy.
take a look at this pic (its just 4 lofted circles)
any ideas what i can do to fix it?
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Create a washer, looks ugly!
Unfortunately, it looks pretty choppy.
take a look at this pic (its just 4 lofted circles)
any ideas what i can do to fix it?
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The solution is easy, but you'll have to start from scratch. Create a cylinder. In the channel box, click polyCylinder and change the subdivisions Axis to a number that gives you a smoothness you like. Duplicate it, scale it accordingly, then boolean>Difference.
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Sounds complicated, its realy simple. And i promise if you do it right, it works %100 of the time!
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My point: Try booleans because they aren't horrible.
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It looks as if your tesselation values are too low. With your lofted circles, go into the attribute editor > tessellation > U/V Divisions Factor and crank them up to like 1.5 or so. Should smooth everything out for you.
Booleans will work fine also if you want to go the poly route...create a cylinder. Duplicate it and universally scale it in a bit then up in the Y so you can see it. Select the outer cylinder first, then shift-select the inner. Go to polygons > Booleans > Difference and it will hollow out the cylinder. It's important which cylinder you pick first. Otherwise, you may get undesirable results. Just scale it into the washer shape afterwards. You would then play with smoothing to get it as smooth as you want.
Like everything else, there are plenty of ways to achieve the same result in Maya.
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