Maya Modeling - Page 28 - Simply Maya User Community

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.

Watch

smoothing doesn't work right

Hey guys, I'm really new to maya and I have a problem on my first model. Until now, it's pretty simple geometry, but somehow smoothing leads to a...

Thread by: poogle Subscribe

by poogle

01-12-2011|06:14 PM

Replies: 4

Attach nurbs surface problem

Can someone help me with this. Im trying to get these five nurbs curves to attach. This is from an online model of a rhino. in the part where the leg...

Thread by: iron_tick Subscribe

by adldesigner

05-06-2003|03:20 AM

Replies: 3

Model messes up in OBJ exported file.

Hello! I am creating a room that has multiple door exits. (As shown in screenshot) And I need to export to .obj to use within unity, now this room...

Thread by: bccmini247 Subscribe

by Gen

21-10-2015|12:30 AM

Replies: 2

Sub-d: is poly proxy age moveable?

Maybe somebody can clear this up for me. When working with sub-ds and switching to proxy from standard mode, is it possible to move the cage next to...

Thread by: NitroLiq Subscribe

by Jay

09-09-2007|09:58 PM

Replies: 7

Moving face/vertices and nonselected also moving?

Hey guys, so when I select a vertex and move it, the one right above it also moves slightly, ill show u a picture. See in the picture how i only have...

Thread by: pyathus Subscribe

by Gen

10-07-2011|04:47 PM

Replies: 1

Maya 2 Lightwave

Hi!! Is there a plugin for exporting maya scenes to lightwave?? Cheers!

Thread by: korben Subscribe

by Jim

11-07-2003|01:53 PM

Replies: 6

Copy object to CVs on curve

How would you achieve this: Model a nurb curve with say 10 points, then create a primitve, and copy an instance of that primitive to every CV on...

Thread by: dkouts Subscribe

by ayhanmucur

19-12-2002|09:16 AM

Replies: 2

Modeling a mechanical part...

Hi everyone, My name is Antoine and I am new to Maya. I don't have any training in digital design so excuse my ignorance... I recently stated a...

Thread by: Antoinek Subscribe

by Antoinek

05-06-2013|11:14 PM

Replies: 2

nHair Creation Issue

Hi Guys, I'm following a tutorial online and there's a part where he creates a nhair system. Now in the Outliner, it should have each follicle...

Thread by: mendosa69 Subscribe

by mendosa69

18-12-2015|01:24 AM

Replies: 0

Maya and Mudbox / ZBrush

I'm probably asking an obvious question, but: why use Mudbox / ZBrush when you can just model most of the detail in Maya? Is it so you can add...

Thread by: sasskiaduncan Subscribe

by Jay

03-07-2010|08:27 PM

Replies: 6

Im gonna lose my mind trying to fill this hole

I am a blender user and I find it more suitable for personal artwork projects due to its flexibility and being an all in one solution. But recently...

Thread by: talha1 Subscribe

by mythandra

08-07-2015|08:47 PM

Replies: 7

Attaching

Been workin on a character and trying to attach both feet. But when I hit attach the legs kind of collapse and square off on one and the other...

Thread by: Stever Subscribe

by Kevin

29-09-2002|04:40 PM

Replies: 6

Attach? Stitch? Sculpt? How do you join arms and legs to a body seamlessly???

Okay, so I'm modeling in Nurbs, I've got a simple sphere for the body, and a simple cone for the arm. See attached image below. I bring the arm...

Thread by: VonDrake Subscribe

by mtmckinley

17-01-2003|06:21 PM

Replies: 6

Rock cliff / Model too heavy

Hello, I'm creating a rock cliff running alongside a long desert road. The wall is built out of small detailed stone blocks put together. You...

Thread by: Turboyac Subscribe

by Turboyac

24-07-2014|08:43 PM

Replies: 5

the ratio size from an object ?

hello friends ! If I will create a simply primitive plane, I can see the size from the object in the attribute editor. In the TRansform...

Thread by: bernhard Subscribe

by mtmckinley

22-08-2003|12:40 AM

Replies: 2

how do u create motion tweens?

how do u create a short animation and play it over and over again through the timeline. if someone could let me know this would greatly save myself...

Thread by: danotronXX Subscribe

by whisky28

12-09-2005|01:40 PM

Replies: 7

Camera Navigation

It's taken me a while to notice something when rotating my camera view, basically using the mouse and ALT key you can rotate Pitch and Heading but...

Thread by: djwaterman Subscribe

by djwaterman

29-03-2012|10:14 PM

Replies: 4

Poly reduce advice...?

I have a high poly model that I'd like to make a lower poly model purely because of openGL and animation tests. I have tried poly reduce and it seems...

Thread by: davis_drawings Subscribe

by bendingiscool

05-12-2007|01:01 PM

Replies: 1

alpha mask imported texture file

I have imported a .tiff file. It was a font character created in Illustrator and exported as .eps. It was then opened in Photoshop and, selected and...

Thread by: lemon Subscribe

by ArtBlack

03-10-2004|09:11 AM

Replies: 2

Script to extrude multiple objects

Hi I ma trying to extrude multiple objects in the Y axis using Mel. I have so far -> extrude -ch true -rn false -po 1 -et 0 -upn 0 -d 0 1 0...

Thread by: moonie878 Subscribe

by moonie878

26-03-2015|03:13 PM

Replies: 0

how can i make tubes?

how can i create a bunch of tubes that comes out of one point, just trying to experiment with an abstract image. :banghead:

Thread by: ephekto Subscribe

by ephekto

27-09-2002|06:08 PM

Replies: 4

Cutting nurbs

Hello guys, while working on my Porsche i ran into a problem. How do i cut a nurbs object in half? Like detatch some part of a nurbs object? I just...

Thread by: timur04 Subscribe

by mtmckinley

30-09-2002|04:56 PM

Replies: 3

nurbs texturing

hi all so I've got a project where I'm importing (non-organic) nurbs geometry into maya from rhino; now I'm wondering about the texturing...

Thread by: LML Subscribe

by Falott

13-12-2011|04:55 PM

Replies: 3

Fill a gap between two converted polygons

Hi I have imported a simple scene from CAD in a DXF file format. the scene is made up of two squares one bigger than the other i am trying to fill...

Thread by: moonie878 Subscribe

by moonie878

26-03-2015|03:15 PM

Replies: 5

Models turning into cubes when applying textures?!?!

I'm modelling a simple sofa as a subdiv and have created a lambert for it but when I apply it, my sofa turns cuboid! I've tried exporting it as a dxf...

Thread by: sjtaylor84 Subscribe