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Convert NURBS to polygons

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Convert NURBS to polygons

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- - [Instructor] When you model in nurbs, there are many times when you'll need to convert those surfaces to polygons. So Maya has a number of ways to do that. So let's take a look at that. Now conversion happens under the Modify panel. And we have a Convert menu. Now if I tear this off, you'll see that we've got a lot of different options here. We have nurbs to polygons, nurbs to sub div, and so on. We have sub div to nurbs. So, we can actually move between different types of geometry fairly easily. Now, probably the most common method is to take nurbs and bring them into polygons for things such as gaming, and so on. So let's go ahead and convert this simple nurbs object to polygons. So if we go to modify, convert nurbs to polygons. And let's go ahead and take a look at the options. Now the options for this are really right here. There is the type of geometry we want. Do we want triangles? Or do we want quads? I'm going to leave that at triangles for right now. The tessalation…

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