maya personal learning edition
 

hi!. im new to maya (just started today) and iv been trying to work through the modeling a basic human video tutorial from this site. without a huge amount success

i applied a material to the plane in the perspective view and pressed 6 to see it as a reference image

then when i later switched to front view the plane was white with no identifiable image

i re-applied the image to the plane in front view and it worked! but when i went back to the perspective view the plane was textured with the "maya personal learning edition" logo. :headbang:

im also finding the interface awkward i keep having to go to preferences to reset the windows every 5 minutes

im also having problems using hull to scale an opening in a nurbs sphere. instead of shrinking the opening when i scale it it seems to drag it into the centre of the object.

allthough im new to maya i have a small amount of experience in max.

does anyone know where i could be going wrong so far.. or of a tutorial thats really great for an absolute beginner who seems to get everything wrong lol

and another question would is the interface anyway restricted in the learning edition? perhaps this could be a problem.


thanks allot :)

First of all, you cant remove that Maya logo unless you buy the retail version. It is to keep you from selling your work. :)

PS. the logo is just there on the shaded settings i think.

Your views can have different settings, wired, shaded etc. so that might be the problem.

I dont think the interface is somewhat changed in the PLE, it just takes a time to get used to it, but it feels really comfortable when you get ahold of it, trust me. :)

I recomend that you try to have some fun with the software and feel comfortable with the interface before you start doing some advances tutorials. :)

I recomend Simply maya and Digital tutors if you need some good step by step tutorials.

I hope I've been to some help, the best of luck to you!

aeb, you've got guts. Way to just dive right in. Don't ever loose that drive and determination.

I agree with Weyu about getting used to the software first. I suggest opening the help file (at the top right of your screen). Or, I think you can hit F1. Search for the basic tutorials and go through them, they are great for getting you used to the basics. I went through them all in less than two days. Then start the tuts here on Simply Maya. I think it will make things a little easier for you.

We look forward to seeing you learn & grow with us.

thanks
 

hey guys thanks for the responce and encouragement :).

i think i was just having allot of problems at the same time lol

iv solved or got round most of them now and i think im gonna keep working my way through this tutorial even if i am going really slowly.

il let you know if i get anymore big problems and ost a pic when iv finished.

You should learn how to modell with polygons, I personly only use Nurbs for creating simple things like eyes and such, you got alot more control over polygons.

If you are going to continue using Nurbs to create objects you should try messing around with Isoparms.

And there is a really nice beginner tutorial by Digital tutors about the interface and where they also created a object using nurbs, it costs a bit, if you want tutorials for free/cheaper look at this site.

Polygons 4-ever! :p

haha yeah i like polygons2 .. infact iv worked pretty much only with polygons in 3ds max so this is new to me..

maya keeps crashing on me at the moment.. sometimes its everytime i perform an action it freezes for a few seconds.. hmm :/

Yeah I also get that problem sometimes when I'm working with large object, a solution to that problem would be tremendous.

And mayby a pic of how far you've gotten with the tutorial? :)

What PLE Verison are you using and on wot OS?

Maya 8 and 8.5 for the Mac are quite buggy and do result in crashes. Also what specs is your PC. Maya can be a bit fussy if you are not using the correct hardware.

Just save, save, save, save, save, save, save, save, save and save some more.

a have also the same problem i m also new in this field and facing huge problems in maya.

arghhhhh
 

ok well i had another go today and its really hopeless there must be some kind of technical problem because all i have in my scene is 1 nurbs sphere and a textured plane.

it seems to run ok for a while then starts to crash when i try and do anything like scale an object adjust view port size etc.

my system is intel dualcore 1.86ghz(*2)
2gb ram
windows xp

and im running maya 7.0 PLE

if anyone else has experienced this and knows if theres a solution thatd be great.

do you think i could have got the 32 bit instead of 64 or vice versa? (just guesing here)

thanks

edit: i had a try with polygons and made this

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...mallercopy.jpg

unfortunately i did this with max hehe

ok another edit: now an error message is coming up saying runtime error and some problem with C++ then maya closes.. im thinking maybe i should just download it again and re install it.

:)
 

hello chaps.

i finally got the problem sorted. i just deleted maya. downloaded it again and then installed it again. not sure what could have been causing it

anyway iv been at that tutorial again and been making some progress.

this is a render straight out of maya

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...mith/smguy.jpg

and i also did an animation but unfortunately i couldnt figure out how to render it or render wireframe so i just did a screen capture

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w.../th_smguy2.jpg