Allright The problem now is which one of the two packages i am going to go for. Back when i was using max 7 i downloaded demos of both your products. They had some issues that i found a bit difficult to use (workflow issues, undo problems) but you have both probably addressed alot of those things now… They would be great christmaspresents though! LOL… Ok, anyway thanks for both your answers. Ill download the latest demos of both and make up my mind… Wouldnt it be gereat though if you put your products together and nested it with polyspeed? Max would kick a**!
Cheers!
Hi again Light. I have now downloaded the demo, and looked at the video you provided. And it almost does the trick. What i mentiond earlier in this post but forgot when i showd the Carrera example is that in XSI you have different corner options when beveling. Diamond etc which makes a better topology. Your script basically does a chamfer of the edges as you could do in regular chamfer by chamfering once and chamfering the next edges again and so on. AND the max chamfer is somewhat flawed. What it should do when chamfering more than 2 is to actually give you a 90 degree segment before actually starting the radius of the chamfer otherwise you will get shading errors when turbo/meshsmoothing.
What i would like is a chamfer that
- gives you a parametrical radius option
- gives you a step option (x chamfered edges within the radius)
- gives you corner options. I.e. Diamond, regular, connected…
Another thing you can do in the XSI bevel is to invert the chamfered edges so instead of getting a nice rounded corner of a box the bevel would invert and give you the opposit – a concave/halfpipe edge. Pretty neat.
Unfortunately my XSI demo has expired so i cannot give a more thorough explenation and i have search the net for som more in depth explenations and tutorials but cannot find them.
But, the bevel/chamfer options in XSI are really good so if you get the chance to have a look do so because you might get some really good ideas from it.
Ok, enough ranting
Cheers!
Hi Media,
These sound like neat ideas, but I will have to take a loot at Softimage to see how they work, which I will as soon as possible.
Please let me know if you have further requests.
Light
A paralell discussion about the edgerounding idea is going in this thread. The script that follows is actually getting close to the XSI method. It leaves better geometry in the corners and will meshsmooth alot better than regular chamfer.
Thanks alot, I will be sure to compare that method with XSI’s and will add it to Orionflame’s Chamfer feature one way or another.
Thanks again,
Light