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I am working with a lot of geometry that needs to go into Maya as connected pieces so I
promoted my Point Normals to be Vertex Normals and Fused the geometry. But now I am
realizing that Transforms don't transform Vertex Normals, only Point Normals. Is
there a way to get Vertex Normals to transform like Point Normals?
I am guessing "No", and the only way to do this is keep it as Point Normals and
promote/fuse as the last step.
H10.0.295 on Linux
Thanks,
Craig
Hi Graig,
I'm afraid it's only Point Attributes that get transformed.
So you need to promote them before the transform, just make sure you
have unique points.
The good news is that if you make you points unique the amount of
vertices doesn't change.
This means you can branch of a few nodes to calculate the normals and
use Attribute Copy to copy them back on the original geometry.
So it's - unique - promote to point - do transform - promote to vertex -
attribute copy
If you're dealing with Object level transforms then you have to use an
Object Merge to transform them to worldspace.
Slightly more tricky.
But it might be good to know that SESI is considering supporting
automatic transforming of vertex normals simular to point normals.
Not sure if and when this will be supported though.
cheers,
benS
craigleehoffman at aol.com wrote:
I am working with a lot of geometry that needs to go into Maya as
connected pieces so I promoted my Point Normals to be Vertex Normals and Fused the
geometry. But now I am realizing that Transforms don't transform Vertex Normals, only
Point Normals. Is there a way to get Vertex Normals to transform like Point Normals?
I am guessing "No", and the only way to do this is keep it as Point Normals and
promote/fuse as the last step.
H10.0.295 on Linux
Thanks,
Craig
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