Maya 2020 fundamentals - modelling the real world
Get halfway through a model and find it's an unworkable mess? Can't add edge loops where you need them? Can't subdivide a mesh properly? If any of this sounds familiar check this course out.
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24-05-2008
, 11:48 AM
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How to model a bow
After a long time I started working with maya again.
I tried to model a bow like like you see it in the attachement. Unfortunately I don´t have any idea how to realize it. I started with an polygon bended it so it was a closed circle and then tried to twist it, but in the end it was looking very ugly.
Does anyone has any suggests? Would be nice because I think this couldn´t be that difficult.
Thanks
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24-05-2008
, 01:26 PM
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Hope it helps!
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25-05-2008
, 05:33 PM
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I used the EP Curve Tool (Create>EP Curve Tool) and extruded a face along the curve with about 30 divisions or so.
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27-05-2008
, 12:09 PM
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I tried out both suggestions. But on the first one I got any strange error. Maybe I did anything false:
1. I created a cylinder and deleted the faces on top and bottom. (12 subdivisions)
2. I transformed the cylinder with the scale tool to an oval
deleted six faces on one side and mirrored the other six to
this side
3. here it get´s unclear: I moved the vertices of one last face
on each side to the middle
4. how do you move the vertices to let it still appear symmetric
5. I don´t get it to extrude the faces right. Did you select them
singly?
In the second suggestion I don´t have any idea how to [QOUTE]extruded a face along the curve with about 30[/QOUTE]
Sorry I forgot so much in maya, so much options ....
but thanks in advice
Tobsen
Last edited by Tobsen; 27-05-2008 at 01:01 PM.
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27-05-2008
, 01:00 PM
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It's a .mb file of the bow.