Polymesh versus Convert Smooth Object

[DMclean]

I have some cylinders (actually crenelated castle towers) which are smooth objects, The towers are mapped cylindrically and then the ends and the crenelations are mapped flat and aligned. I now want to convert these to facetted surfaces.

 

If I do it by polymeshing, which lets me choose the facetting scheme, the mapping and materials all become cylindrical, blowing away all of work done aligning the materials. This does not happen if I chose to convert the objects via the convert tool, but then I don't have control over the degree of facing or whether I'd prefer not to have triangulation everywhere.

 

Is there any way around this? I want cleanly facetted objects with as little triangulation as possible.

 

Thanks,

 

Doug

 

 

[Tech]

Hi Doug,

 

If you set the Display Resolution to a custom Facetting scheme set to the same options as you used with the PolyMesh tool, and then Convert, does that do what you want?

[DMclean]

Yep that does it perfectly... Knew there had to be a trick somewhere, just couldn't figure out where it was hidden.

 

Any way to make the polymesh tool not destroy the mapping?

 

Many thanks,

 

Doug

 

[Tech]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the suggestion, we will see if that can be retained.  Any chance you can send one of your tower objects we can use for testing purposes?

[DMclean]

Uploaded Tower.Zip to the FTP Site.

 

Doug

 

[Tech]

Thanks Doug!