if maya has to evaluate the edge unfolding for every frame you are setting yourself up for headaches later. I prefer not to go that route because leaving things as they are results in over head the more complex the scene gets. Sadly this also means that its not trivial to go back and edit the text without a destructive work flow that depends on this stack of corrective measures, other wise you'll just have to accept some artifacts and figure out how to minimize them. if you use the built in bevel options from the text tool you'll just have more topology to fix. if you need the bevel effects that the text tool can produce you can always add those in the extrude options. if this problem pops up then undo that and go to town with the insert edge tool and manually drop in your supporting edges- realize that you probably aren't going to get proper quads out of this unless you fiddle with it.Īfter you've inserted the edges you need extrude your object. The best solution I've found to this is to convert to polygons and save either the front/back face and delete everything else (*make sure your normals are pointing the rite way) then triangulate the mesh. this at the consiquence of folding edges over themselves.

if you have an object that has holes in it, eg D p and e, with uneven number of verts between the inside and outside curves maya will throw edges where ever it can to solve the object as a solid face. UPDATE PRICE: All future updates are free Release Notes. Maya has a bit of a finiky way of treating the unwinding order of objects that don't have enough supporting edges. Tested on Maya 2017-2022 for Mac (Beta Support) Linux and Maya LT are currently not supported.

This is a Nurbs artifact from the conversion to Polygons at render time.

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