Computer Stuff Kit Tricks: What is Polygon sphere in Maya

What is Polygon Sphere in Maya?

The Polygon is also called as shape, not some other shape. The polygon shapes like rectangular, Convex, Simple, Concave, Equilateral, Regular convex, Regular star, Equiangular, Cyclic, Square, Circle, Oval, triangle, diamond, trapezoid, parallelogram, star, pentagon, hexagon, heart, octagon, crescent and arc.

If you have started with polygon for an object like table, chair, weapons, house, trees, etc., then mostly use in the software application that is: Mesh and Edit Mesh. In Mesh have Smooth, Combine, Separate and Fill hole. The Edit Mesh is most important Extrude, Interactive Split Tool, Insert Edge Loop Tool and Offset Edge Loop Tool.

In the Maya application have plenty type of shapes to develop the modeling with the polygon shapes. If you have knowledge on geometry part, you can do the modeling part, as we know that polygon is a two dimensional or plane figure, with at least three straight sides like triangle and angles, typically have five or more…

For better understanding, then see the below screenshot for your reference from Maya application about Polygon Shapes.

Sphere, Square, Cylinder, Cone, Plane, Torus, Animation Technical Stuff

Menu bar | Polygons | Sphere | Screenshot-1

First go to menu bar and select the option as “Polygons”, then go to near below have some shapes like, Sphere, Square, Cylinder, Cone, Plane, Torus, Pyramid and Pipe.

Now select the polygon of Sphere and go to four view and select perspective, then see the Sphere in the Grid, here taken three Spheres and one plane for surface.

Perspective view | Three Spheres | Screenshot-2

You need to adjust with manipulator to place the object as per your requirement. After that need to color the object, then click the Color for more information. See the below screenshot about how to do adjustment for transparency to the sphere objects with green color highlighted area to move one place to another place.

Color settings in Maya, Transparency adjustment

Object color settings | Transparency adjustment | Screenshot-3

The final part is rendering the object through click the “Display render settings” to get the best quality of output of image. See the below screenshot of rendering the image quality by using lights effects and reflections settings to get accurate.