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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Make vertex normals point in same direction
I have a problem with the 'average vertex normal' command.
I have a human mesh, separated into two parts - head and torso.
On the edge where the head and torso are connected, the vertex normals point in different direction,
which makes the shading inconsistent. Easy fix, I thought. I selected all the vertices on torso and neck edges, then issued the 'average vertex command'. However, the results are not as expected, the vertices still point in different directions as you can see on the image below:
I just want to make the normals point in the same direction. I also tried combining the mesh, running the average command through all the vertices (which fixes the shading problem), but when I try to transfer attributes back to the separated mesh, it just turns black... This issue has been frustrating me for the last couple of days, so I would really appreciate any help! How to make vertices on two separate meshes have the same angle? Thanks so much!
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The reason are blendshapes on the head. I might to extensive modifications on the torso in the future, and having head and torso separated saves me from a lot of potential headaches. Thanks for your advice!Just curious, is there a reason you don't want to combine the meshes together? If you combine the mesh and then merge the vertices at the seam (so that instead of having 2 stacked verts along the seam, you merge them down to 1), it should fix the issue after softening the normals on the new edge that is created.
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24-06-2015
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If you're not planning on using clothes, you could try doing as I suggested (combine, merge, soften) and then extract the faces. Hopefully the normals will still match enough after the extraction.
Another option would be animated the face with a skeleton rather than blendshapes, but I can understand if that's not an ideal alternative.
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Once you have all of your blend shapes connected, simply combine the target head and the body into a single object and smooth the normals. The history dependency will keep the blendshape intact.
A better way would be to write a script that would take the vertex normals from overlapping vertices and average them.
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