Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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So when its all done, I plan on smoothing it out, but I also wanted to know if using the smooth tool for polygons was the same thing as making it into subdivisions?
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looks nice, and I love seeing models with hard-normals on. Looks so charming. When you soften the normals, I find it usually doesn't look good unless you subdivide a million times.
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Thanks! I pressed 3 but nothing happened. I have maya 7 so I dont think i have the feature your talking about.
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I think its the angle because I'm basing this off of 3 orthographic views.
I totally agree, having the normals set to 0 helps show faces that may not flow with the grayscale gradient when the faces are curving. Thanks! ill post up a pic with it smoothed
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here is a pic with mentalray global illumination, obviously i still need to work on my rendering skills.
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I have made the door handles, I just used an older version of the truck when setting up the rendering in MR.
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