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Quick Normals Tool

Hello. Want to share a tool for Maya I made for myself and use it constantly. It has a number of buttons to quickly adjust normals as needed. Most of these just default Maya functions composed in one place for convenience. Works with Maya 2022 and higher.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JuQy50VzdpHgK2JfZOjwGHtMHuh9n2O3/view?usp=sharing

Tool window

Tool window

Tool overview

Tool overview

Weight Normals

Weight Normals

Normals to Average. Sets normals for all selected faces to their average direction

Normals to Average. Sets normals for all selected faces to their average direction

Poly Island Normals to Average. Same as Normals to Average but processes each selection island separately.

Poly Island Normals to Average. Same as Normals to Average but processes each selection island separately.

Normals to Average usage example

Normals to Average usage example

Copy Normals To, copies normals from the first vertex in selection to all vertices in selection.

Copy Normals To, copies normals from the first vertex in selection to all vertices in selection.

Align Vertex Normals sets individual axis values of selected verticies to 0.

Align Vertex Normals sets individual axis values of selected verticies to 0.