Problem with extruding :(
 

I'm doing a tutorial from Maya 4.5 fundamentals, where I am box modeling an alien with a cube and smooth proxy. Everything works great until I try to extrude the front of the face. In the video tutorial, the guy selects two front faces and extrudes them, and their is no gap between the two faces (but there is a gap between the extruded shape and the mirrored image.) Then, he deletes the faces between the extruded shape and the mirror, and it all joins together. Well, when I do it, it makes kind of a hole in the front of the shape. I have retryed twice. I figure there is some kind of problem since when I extrude the faces it turns to four instead of two. Anyone have any idea what is going wrong? Thanks.

polygons>>tool options >> keep faces together.

that should sort you out.

Alan

Thankyou so much! It worked!

I had the exact same problem.. They don't tell you to keep Faces Together-option to ON...

it's one of those things you learn (like you two just have ;))

And just for the record get used to it maya doesnt tell you a LOT of things!!!

:)

Alan