Problem with bridging in Maya 2009

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.

Thanks for the attempt, I will try separating the objects and combining them again before I try and bridge again, if that doesn't work I will work on messing around with the vertices to see if I can get a different result. Ill post my results after some trial and error.

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?

Thanks for this I will check this out as soon as I get home, I hope this fixes the problem so I can continue.

Sweet deal I just did display>polygons>face normals, and it showed me that my main helmet part was facing the opposite direction and the front piece so I did normals>reverse and then I did the bridging again and now it is perfect. Thank you so much for your help in this matter.

Glad it worked.  Good luck with Maya.