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Merge Vertices Along Border ( MEL Script?)
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29 Feb 2008Hey guys,
I'm trying to see if anyone has come across (or written) a script that would merge the vertices' of a geometry along its border -- to make this more clear: I create my geometry (let's say half a face), then duplicate it across, combine it, then I have to manually merge the vertices across the center. Is there a script that can handle this (the merging of vertices across)?
I am thinking it would be something fairly easy to do in MEL, then again I am not versed in MEL so I wouldn't know what the hell I am talking about
I am sure you can see the advantage to this (especially in productivity) since I wouldn't have to go through the entire model and manually merge the pair of vertices (and have to worry about possibly selecting wrong vertices -- when I get into that speed merging mode haha).
If anyone could point me into the right direction, it would be much appreciated! -
Claymation 600 posts01 Mar 2008You can set the falloff distance in the merge vertices options. That way you can select the entire model if you want, and it'll only merge the vertices that are closer together than that distance. -
01 Mar 2008That's true clay, but we recently had a problem with doing just that, when an area of finer detail had some vertices inadvertanly merged. This was only then picked up once the model went for UV's.
Since I take care of a lot of the rigging and other parts of the pipeline just after the modeling process I'd be interested to find out what others do (or if there is a MEL script available to help here) -
01 Mar 2008Yeah I've been trying to search around the net to see if I can find a mel script that will do it but no luck so far. I'll post here if I do find anything.
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