{"id":279,"date":"2020-09-25T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/?p=279"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:27:27","slug":"quad-draw-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/modeling\/quad-draw-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Retopologizing using the Quad Draw tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Quad Draw tool in Maya is great for retopologizing a model. You basically draw a new mesh on top of the (probably way too high density scanned) mesh, Here is a video on the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Maya Quad Draw Tool Basics: Retopologizing a Model\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HVh9GDufda0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Quad Draw Tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To start drawing quads on top of an existing mesh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Select the surface you want to re-topo (draw on)<\/li><li>Make live (right click &#8211; make live, or magnet icon [plain magnet])<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see which surface is live on the top icon shelf, next to the snapping and live magnet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quad Draw &#8220;Hotkeys&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>LMB Click &gt; Create vertices<\/li><li>Shift + LMB Click &gt; Create Polygons<\/li><li>CTRL + Shift + LMB Click &gt; Delete Components<\/li><li>CTRL + LMB Click &gt; Insert Edge Loops<\/li><li>MMB drag &gt;Move components (tweak)<\/li><li>TAB LMB drag &gt; Extend (Extrude Edge)<\/li><li>TAB MMB drag &gt; Extend Edge Loop<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad Draw tool in Maya is great for retopologizing a model. You basically draw a new mesh on top of the (probably way too high density scanned) mesh, Here is a video on the basics. To start drawing quads on top of an existing mesh Select the surface you want to re-topo (draw on) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[27,46,28],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autodesk-maya","category-modeling","tag-instruction-video","tag-quad-draw","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}