I am following this tutorial that comes with Maya Unlimited 2009 "Bridging between edges", basically I am doing the very first polygon tutorial making a helmet and when I try and bridge the two pieces together it does some weird cross polygon effect which is all wrong. I have added a image to the attachment so you can see the before and after here. Anyone one got any ideas?
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I tried manipulating all the vertices around the area being bridged and no luck, I tried separating the objects and re-combining them, also with no luck. Still getting twisted, so I re-started the tutorial from scratch and I am back to bridging and still having the same twisted issue, I am not sure what is going on and why this is not working correctly, any more suggestions or anyone else got anything?
Hey, I think I found someone else with the same problem as you, using the same tutorial. Check out this link:
http://area.autodesk.com/i
One suggestion for the fix was to conform the normals (Normal - Conform).
Another suggestion was to check the Bridge Taper setting. Apparently a setting of 0 can cause this problem. Try setting it to 1.
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by: bham3dmanPosted on 2009-02-26 at 19:21:51ID: 23752397
Greetings,
I'm a Max user but thought I'd look into this a bit - thinking that Maya's bridge tool might not be much different than Max's. I was wrong. :)
In Max, bridging edges will result in a twisted mesh when normals are flipped. Other than that, it's difficult to reproduce this problem in Max.
I found the following statement on the web regarding Maya's bridge tool, but it seems a bit odd to me:
"The Bridge tool connects the closest vertices across from one another. If the bridge appears twisted, then undo and move the vertices closer to one another."
In Max, I might try detaching and re-attaching the front helmet piece and then trying the command again.
I know I'm not much help here, but thought I'd make an attempt since no one else has chimed in yet.
Good luck.