(MAYA) buggy mirror cut

[onionhead_o]

has it always been buggy like this. btw im using maya 2011. mirrored meshes sometimes becomes invisible where i have to reapply the shader to the mesh to fix it. and the most annoying thing is it creates a node for the mirror plane in the hypershade and the mirror plane stays after the mirror cut. why cant it just work like max symmetry. sigh......

[malcolm]

Agreed, Maya's mirror cut is not as clean as max's, everything you mentioned is pretty standard.

[Peris]

yeah this happens to me all the time as well, it's really annoying. If anyone has any solutions I'd love to know too =)

[onionhead_o]

i guess i can take comfort that it doesn only happen to me =P

[Treacharous]

Make sure all your verts are along the proper axis that you are mirroring across, generally you won't get a clean mirror right off the hop either, you will have to go into your history list and change a couple settings in the mirror options. It is a little more work than max's symmetry modifier, but it does give you a little more control over a few things. Hope that helped a little bit. You can snap the verts to your axis while holding down the X key, with your move tool enabled.