Autodesk 663B1-05A111-1001 User Guide - Page 284

12 | Basics Menus Reference > Modify > Convert > Subdiv to NURBS Share UVs With this option turned on, the resulting polygon will maintain existing UV mesh borders. If this option is off, UV borders are created for each polygonal face. Modify > Convert > Subdiv to NURBS Original Object Specifies what happens to the source object after conversion. Replace Deletes the original object, leaving only the original transform node. To maintain the scene hierarchy, maya keeps the original transform node and makes the resulting NURBS patches children of it. Hide and Show These options keep the original object. If you have construction history turned on, you can still edit the original subdivision surface to change the resulting NURBS patches. With Hide, the original is hidden from view. If you later want to display and edit the original, select it in the Outliner and choose Display > Show > Show Selection. Output Type Instead of NURBS, you can choose to create a Bezier surface by turning on the Beziers option. You can export Beziers surfaces for use with some game engines. If you perform operations from the Edit NURBS menu, such as inserting an isoparm, the surface will switch from Bezier to NURBS. To switch back to Bezier, use Edit NURBS > Rebuild Surfaces. Modify > Convert > Texture to Geometry Texture to Geometry converts an image into geometry by creating a polygonal mesh that is subdivided based on the colors in the image. The subdivided faces on the mesh can be assigned a shading material with a similar color to the original image. The subdivided polygonal mesh can then be used as is, or be made to wrap onto the original polygonal mesh so it appears in the same location as the original texture map. The original texture image is not modified Related topics ™ "Convert textures to a polygon mesh" on page 50 ™ "Convert Texture to Geometry workflow tips" on page 53 Basics 284