Create 4 different types of polygon spheres.  These are an alternative to Maya's default polySphere.


-triSphere - Made up of evenly distributed triangles across the mesh.  Great for low poly spheres. A.k.a Geodesic Sphere.

-quadSphere - Made up of evenly distributed quads across the mesh.  Based on a cube.

-pentaSphere - Made up of quads that form pentagon shape patches in their edge flow.  Based on an icosahedron platonic

-hexaSphere - Made up of quads that form penatgon and hexagon shape patches. Based on a soccer ball type mesh


Please feel free to leave feedback and comments.

Created by -JW


Install

1) Place the "geoSpheres.mel" file into the user/documents/maya/scripts folder.

2) Place the geoSpheres.png icon file into the user/documents/maya/version(example 2012)/prefs/icons folder.

3) Use the source command "source geoSpheres.mel;" in the command line or make a shelf button to run the script.


Upcoming features:

-Adding a Radius number field. Currently all spheres are created at default value of 1.  1 world unit based on whatever measurement you are working in, 1 cm, 1 foot, 1 meter, etc..

-The triangle count for each division level.  

-New geoSphere types!! ?¿?!!