Planarize

Currently supported maya versions: 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2022 / 2023/ 2024 (more on request)

An easy way to move a face selection on the same plane. The plane is determined by the average of all vertices of the selected faces or can be defined manually

An easy way to move a face selection on the same plane. The plane is determined by the average of all vertices of the selected faces or can be defined manually

If no plane is specified it will be determined by the average of all vertices of the selected faces

If no plane is specified it will be determined by the average of all vertices of the selected faces

You can move a face selection to a specific plane by defining this plane with 3 vertices or 2 edges using multi-selection

You can move a face selection to a specific plane by defining this plane with 3 vertices or 2 edges using multi-selection

You can move a face selection to a specific plane by defining this plane with 3 vertices or 2 edges using multi-selection

You can move a face selection to a specific plane by defining this plane with 3 vertices or 2 edges using multi-selection

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Soft selection is also supported, to slowly fade the effect using all of the soft selection features, such as falloff curve, volume/surface based etc.

Watch the tutorial

Featuring Artist: Kyle Rau

See how this legendary Hard Surface Artist (Blizzard / Firewalk Studios) uses the planarize tool in his workflow

Download instructions

3 simple steps to use the maya tool

Download and install the toolset.

Launch maya and open the license manager in the Monster Puppet menu

Switch to the plugin you would like to purchase and hit the request license button. Now enter your email address, specify a plan and copy the request code.

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Install tools & request key

You can skip this step if you already have the MK Maya tools installed!

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Purchase the plugin on Gumroad (make sure the plan is identical to the request code). Paste the request code from maya to the checkout
“Request key” field here!

Gumroad will now issue a license key at the bottom of the purchase confirmation

2

Purchase on gumroad

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Head over to maya and load the purchased plugin or alternatively execute the MEL command mkLicense to show the license manager.

Switch to the right plugin the list and paste your license key. After a few seconds the license should be fully activated and the plugin loaded.

3

Paste license code in maya

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Execute the command

Run the plugin from the tools menu.
You can also map it to a hotkey by using the mel command planarize; or Ctrl+Shift click it to add as a shelf button