Its just thet they dont hide the fact that the onscreen representation is a meshsmooth (XSI says te onscreen thing is subdivs it isnt, its ajust a relaxed interpretation of what subivs are, alias is kindof seeming strict on the terminology so amaya normal subdiv is based on the splinic patch underneath making for less accuracy deviance, this seems to most people a mistake tough)Īnyway its called smoothproxy and yes it has pixarlike edge creasing sliders. This said, maya has the samekind of one level subdivs too (they just dpnt call them subdivs). This said many users have veru weak knowlege of maya design philosophy and what it offers for the user. BUt its rather the mays design philosopy that comes against you here (this is tough what maya is about and why i choose maya over xsi). And the mayas nodestructure does not hide away the fact how maya works underneath wich can make mayas subdvs seem tricky to work with. NO seriously mayas subdivs are technologicaly more advanced. Or you could use nurbs, but I don't know how to do that as subdivisions works fine for me : )Īhh yet again someone who does not truly understand mayas subdivs It's happened with three machines I've used in the past. It behaves in almost the same way as standard subdivision, but it seems to process much faster, whereas standard subdivision can cause you machine to slow down. You can alter the subdivision levels in the options box. You may find it the quickest way to create high end results.

In there you find 'Full Crease Edge/Vertex' and 'Partial Crease Edge/Vertex' which will help you get the nice hard edges while the secondary subdivision object will give you some nice curves. You'll find the tools for Subdivision surfaces under You can manipulate it in a similar way to a polygon model but it has a second mesh which is higher resolution. They are quite easy to use as you use a low polygon model with a few vertices and faces to create a high polygon look. They act like a cross between nurbs and polygons.

Low poly maya