Split Tool Questions

# 1 11-07-2003 , 06:57 PM

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Hey there,

Got a few questions about the Maya Polygon Split Tool. I´m new to Maya and I´m looking for an equivalent of the Smax "Cut" Tool. As far as I understood, the Split Poly Tool cuts faces from edge to edge, but NOT from corner to corner, so that I get 2 Tris. But, let´s imagine that that´s exactly what I need in my particular case...

What to do? It´s quite strange that I have to cut from edge to edge and then merge the vertices. With Smax, I just cut from corner to corner, tada - Ready to go. Maya´s a little unfamiliar until now, always worked with Smax as you can see, so don´t blame me for such a newbie-ish question! :-)

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# 2 11-07-2003 , 07:18 PM

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select the face go to polygons > triangulate

and if you want to flip the triangle edge you can select and go to Edit Polygons > flip triangle edge

- TwEeK

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# 3 11-07-2003 , 07:51 PM

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Thanks a lot! These are the little differences between 3d packages that makes an artists life so much harder.... ;-)

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# 4 11-07-2003 , 07:54 PM

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When using the Split Poly Tool to do this, you can drag the split points to their respective corners as you're making the split (middle-mouse drag the point).

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# 5 11-07-2003 , 07:58 PM

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We have free videos going over the Split Polygon Tool and Extrude Face Tool in our freebie vid section.

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# 6 11-07-2003 , 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by dannyngan
When using the Split Poly Tool to do this, you can drag the split points to their respective corners as you're making the split (middle-mouse drag the point).

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Yes, but then I get two vertices on top of each other and would have to merge them - am I right? At least, that´s what I thought.