Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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edge loop distance
Imagine trying to create a star. You want to add edge loop to the 5 points. Since they all are separated, you individually have to add edge loops to all 5 points, however they may be off just a little bit.
I'm a nitpik, and if it's something that is mechanical/non-organic, it would make sense to keep it exactly the same.
How do I "copy" the distance of the edge loop to another edge to keep it consistent?
I know you can do it for one side of a model, and use instance and it will copy to the other side. That's not what I'm looking for. I'm talking about models that are not created as halves, or are "not created equal".
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Nope. Perhaps I wasn't clear?Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can change the options to be "equal distance from edge" instead of relative distance.
What I mean is: For example - I have 3 extruded edges from a cylinder. I want to do the edge loops around the three extruded polys. Since they all are separated from each other, the edge loop will not go around all three of them. So you'll have to add edge loops individually, thus causing the distance of the edge (of the extruded poly) and the edge loop to be a little different.
If this is not clear, I'll gladly take some screenshots! I'm terrible at trying to explain.
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Circled - I added the edge loops, yet they are all different. Is there a way to "copy"? Without doing - remove half-of-the-model-then-instance-and-merge type of thing?
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I do wish there was a method that will solve this issue - it would be just easier to do it in one step. Suppose you have multiple areas where you want the edge loops to be the same distance. I just learned how to do SubDs and stuff, so perhaps for someone who have done this all the time (edge loops to square off the edges for smoothing/SubD) it became an old hat.
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