topic Re: Adding a polygon to mesh in Maya Forum

Adding a polygon to mesh

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:48:42 GMT

I'm trying to add a polygon to a mesh, where only one edge of the polygon is exist in the mesh (only 2 points of the polygon are already exist in the mesh). I tried to use the "addPolygon" function, but it didn't worked because the mesh doesn't contain all the points of the polygon.
Does anyone know how to add such a polygon to the mesh?

Re: Adding a polygon to mesh

J450NP13 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:06:48 GMT

You could just create the polygon with a plane and then combine it and merge the vertices you need to be merged.

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Re: Adding a polygon to mesh

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:07:50 GMT

but how can I combine the plane with the mesh (what functions combine them together)?

Re: Adding a polygon to mesh

J450NP13 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:12:38 GMT

Select both objects and then goto Mesh>Combine.

Then select the vertices and go to Mesh Edit>Merge

Re: Adding a polygon to mesh

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:21:17 GMT

The mesh is represented as a MFnMesh object in cpp code and the polygon is represented as an array of MPoint objects in cpp code too , and I'm trying to merge them in code. Do you know how can I do that?

Re: Adding a polygon to mesh

J450NP13 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:22:47 GMT

No I don’t off hand.