Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
complex objects.
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I wanted to make a "Mad Biologist Lab' inside a giant mushroom, where lots of mad plants grow.
I have two questions: See my tree trunk? How do I make it more detailed without painstakingly move the CVs one by one? (It used to be a smooth mesh but it's just a plain polygon now.) Also, is there any tutorials on how to make basic plant shapes?
Sorry about the watermark, starving student here.
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You could try mapping a real tree texture onto your trunk; I have been using some photo textures painted over / altered a bit from the standard in photoshop, placed onto a UV map and it's working out ok mixed with textures painted form scratch. Othewise you could extrude some faces to give you some texture or apply a tree like bump map to your shader as Dr Know suggests.
Don't know of any plant tutorials, last time I made a plant I just duplicated a basic leaf shape I created from a plane.
There is a tutorial on making trees in paintfx here;
https://www.alias.com/eng/community/t...ls/index.jhtml
and that may be of interest if you want to add foliage without lots of geometry.
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Any opinion on the provisional lighting?
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Also, how do we put liquid into my glass container? For each container I have two layers of glass, I tried putting a ramp on the inner layer of glass but it didn't quite work out.
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Your scene is looking good, I like the reflection on the glass. Are you going to put more organic creepy mad scientist tools in there?
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I really love that plant in the middle, that's great.
In terms of scale how about some tools or other handheld equipment? They tend to show how big a person is who might use them.
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As for the glow, I hadn't noticed that before. If I were to guess, I would imagine that because raytracing calculates lights and how they affect surfaces, it's not registering the light hitting the glowing interior surfaces.
I think what I would do is render the glowing object with "Hide Source" checked seperately and then composite that result over your final rendered image.
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Hmmmm....I'll have to pay attetion to teh "High Source" thing
next time, thanks! And there is always Photoshop! Oh, are we allow to composite it with photoshop?
I am currently distracted by the new Harry Potter book, but I'll finish the book tonight and get back to more madness of my vegetation....
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I think I got the "lab" part and the "mad" part, but the "science" part is a little weak. Any suggestion on what should be added to make it more scientific?
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