Create 5 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
-hemiSphere - Made up of triangles that are seperated into quadrants just like the north, south, east, and west hemisphere.
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1) Place the "geoSpheres.mel" file into the user/documents/maya/scripts folder for safe keeping.
2) Place the geoSpheres.png icon file into the user/documents/maya/version(example 2012)/prefs/icons folder.
3) Simply copy the entire script onto the shelf as a button, or source the script file from command line if your prefer.
-Currently all spheres are created at default value of 1 as the radius. 1 world unit based on whatever measurement you are working in, 1 cm, 1 foot, 1 meter, etc.
-There is a radius number field to create larger spheres if needed.
-All spheres have multiple divison levels to create higher and lower poly counts.
-I am a modeler at heart and not a programmer, I started to teach myself MEL as a side hobby to expand my workflow, so the code may not be perfect but hopefully you will find some use for these alternative spheres!
Created by: Jon Whelpley