topic Non-Planar Faces When Modelling At Large Scales in Maya Modeling Forum

Non-Planar Faces When Modelling At Large Scales

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:41:07 GMT

I'm currently in the process of blocking out a large scale room, so I'm working in meter units with some object several meters in size. I am noticing that a lot my geometry has numerous non-planar faces, even on primitives. I'm assuming this is just a side effect of modelling at a large scale, so most of my geometry will have non-planar faces?

I was wondering if there was any method or workflow I could follow to avoid so much non-planar geometry from being created when modelling at a large scale?

Re: Non-Planar Faces When Modelling At Large Scales

mspeer — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:52:10 GMT

Hi!

As computers work with limited precision, such checks work with certain tolerance values and so the result can change with different scale.

My recommendation, just ignore this.

Re: Non-Planar Faces When Modelling At Large Scales

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:01:07 GMT

Thanks for your advice! Do you know if there is a way to change the tolerance on the mesh --> cleanup tool so that it only selects more extreme non-planar faces and not just ones created from the large scale?

Re: Non-Planar Faces When Modelling At Large Scales

mspeer — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:54:52 GMT

Hi!

There is no way to change this (as far as i know).

Keep your unit settings at default (labeled "cm") and use this as meter, this should be overall the best solution.