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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 46 04-09-2006 , 08:12 AM

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i made the lofted surface live by clicking on the little magnet at the top right hand corner of Maya (of course i selected the lofted surface first)

then i drew a curve on it with the CV curve tool

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# 47 04-09-2006 , 08:14 AM

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i clicked on the little magnet again to make the surface un-live (did i kill it?? ) and selected a brush, the ivy brush

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# 48 04-09-2006 , 08:15 AM

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then i went to the paint efects utilities and picked 'brush to curve'

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# 49 04-09-2006 , 08:17 AM

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i went to the paint effects attributes for that brush and turned on 'cast shadows'

I also turned the disply down to 25 percent, but tyrned up the global scale tp 2.5

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# 50 04-09-2006 , 08:24 AM

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forgot to menton as soon as i hit 'brush to curve ' the ivy appeared on the curve.

so then i went to 'tubes' and from that drop down went to 'turbulance' and picked 'tree wind'.

then i went to
'flow animation' and checked the two boxes, 'stroke time' and the one below it.
i set the time from 0 -1000 (making sure my time slider went tha far)

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# 51 04-09-2006 , 08:25 AM

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then i hit the play button and watched the ivy grow and sway (plabt wind) as the slider went from 1-1000 as such..,

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# 52 04-09-2006 , 08:26 AM

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annd it get on growing..,

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# 53 04-09-2006 , 08:28 AM

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and growing..,

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# 54 04-09-2006 , 08:31 AM

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the trees were also with turbulance and they swayed as the time slider moved across. i could of had them grow over time to, which i might do later and render it to see what it looks like but anyway, the last render looks something like this.

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# 55 05-09-2006 , 09:20 PM

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frame 712, the grass sways during he 1000 frames, the trees grow from the fround to full, the ive grows and sways along the wall from nothing and i have done no keying as such, its all paint effects. so far anyway

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