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# 1 30-08-2013 , 04:12 PM
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Mirror Geometry -> MERGE FAIL!

I'm having a problem where I want to Mirror geometry and have them merged.
The end result that I don't want is that the smoothing looks horrible on it after the Mirror Geometry.
Hopefully you can help me

Here are my steps:

1) Mirror geometry
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2) After Mirroring geometry and viewing the smoothed version, here is where it goes wrong it doesn't merge?
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3) So I went to do it myself and merged them but...
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4) But it looks horrible when done some Insert edge loops...
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Thanks for the user added image
 
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# 2 30-08-2013 , 05:17 PM
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Before you mirror delete the faces at the end of the 6 cross sections. The mirror duplicates those faces as well. If you find that mirror inadvertantly merges the vertices on each cross section into 1 or 2, then in the channel editor you can select polyMirror* entry and reduce the merge threshhold.
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# 3 30-08-2013 , 09:36 PM
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Yep, these faces need to go.
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# 4 03-09-2013 , 05:17 PM
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Thanks for the help user added image
I'm loving this forum for my Maya problems, keep up the good work!
 
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