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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 14-02-2003 , 12:49 AM

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This one got me searching errors from my boat model for hours and all this time it was just maya acting up on me user added image

Try this:
- Create default polygon cube
- Assign few different shaders to couple of faces so that it has multiple materials
- Convert it to subd
- Do Subdiv Surfaces -> Clean Topology
-> BOOM... the surface is gone. Only wireframe left...

Does this happen to you?

Btw, I'm using maya 4.5...

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# 2 14-02-2003 , 12:51 AM

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Conclusion:

Don't use multiple shaders on object's faces if you're going to convert it to subd later on...

Any other workarounds?

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# 3 14-02-2003 , 01:19 AM

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I think you cant clean topology because the faces as the faces change You have to texture after.

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# 4 14-02-2003 , 01:40 AM

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Of course... silly me user added image

If you just reassign some material to the object after clean topology, it'll display the surface again...

Argh... I shouldn't be modeling in the middle of the night user added image

*EDIT*
Still i think it would be better if it assigned for example default lambert to the whole object rather than just not assign any shader at all...

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