Dirty room
 

Going to try to model this room, with the primary goals of learning some different modeling techniques and rendering/lighting

and first out is the bucket! yey!

Some questions:

1. How can I attach the part that hold the handle to the bucket?. I.e. how do you attach a nurbs object to another nurbs object?

2. In MAX there is a noise modifier . How do you "dirty up" a mesh in Maya?

3. Where are all the bend, skew etc. for nurbs and polys?

Thanks

and we got a bottle

I wouldn't attach the handle to the bucket. I'd just place it so it looked right.

But otherwise, you'd have to Edit Nurbs > Attach surfaces.

There isn't a noise modifier that I know of. I generally use a lattice or maybe a Sine modifier.

Bend and stuff can be found in the Animation menues under Deform > Create Nonlinear >

The bucket in the picture seems to be a little narrower at the base than yours. I think the bottle in the picture might also be a little thinner than the one you've made.

Looking like it should be a good likeness, though. :):tup:

thanks for the answers :)

One more question. I've created a curve to represent the handle. How do I attach a circle to follow that curve so I get a solid surface? I think it was called loft in MAX, but deosn't seem to work the same way in Maya. When I select the curve and a circle it "morphs" the twio curves together... but it maybe something in the loft settings to get what I want?

In Maya what you want is called Extrude. Select the circle first (this is the profile curve) and Shift select the curve (path curve). SUrfaces > Extrude. You'll probably want to play with the settings to get it to follow the path, keep profile normal, etc etc.

Maya's Loft will just create a surface between 2 or more curves. That's why you got a weird shape.

Thanks again, will try that soon...

Did a can in polys (box modeling)

Added the bucket handle, worked fine with extrude, mtmckinley :D

Also changed the proportions of the bucket and bottle slightly.

Question: How do you change so that nurbs surfaces get round and smooth, and not jaggy edges when rendering?

You'd have to increase their tessellation in their attributes.

Ok, thanks!

And now: the container

That's it for today, going to sleep...

Cool work dude.

Keep going!

Put all the things I've done so far together and did a testrender.

hey looking good but from what i see the handle on the bucket is going into the bucket

Two more bottles, a yellow thingie and the thing under the bucket added

thats better lol