banana with maya
 

hello, i'm new here and in the all maya business..
How can i do a banana in maya? i mean the form.
I tried to do this from a cylinder, but i didn't worked
So, if someone can help me with this it will be great [with pics it will be awesome]

thnx :attn:

Re: banana with maya
 

there are lots of ways to model a banana, one way would be to create a nurbs sphere and push and pul the verts until you get the desired look

Re: Re: banana with maya
 

this is the best i could do, and i don't think that it looks like banana :confused:
maybe someone bored and can help me in msn ?:blush:

Isnt there one sort of bananas that is completely straight like that?

But I guess that you should do some beginner modeling tutorials for polygon or nurbs, make them and you can make a banana before you know it.

Best of luck!:)

for sure u have to start from basics ;)

what do you mean basics? a banana is very basic....i think...
i don't think that making a ball or a square is the basic that you mean....

can't find any beginner tutorials....do you have some ? :bow:

Looks ok to me.

Maybe flatten the thinner end and then bend it a bit with a non liniar bend. Sorted

well, i have a progress...
i think it's pretty good...
but how i make it look like a real banana [ you know, like a yellow one ] ?
and how i render it in maya 8.5?

yeah - that's looking much better. before you can texture it you need to lay out the UVs - i might try automatic mapping...then you take it into photoshop to paint.

how i do it?

When you open your browser goto google or any other searchengine and type in MAYA 3d tutorials.

I found the 2 following links after a mere 10 minutes search there not about banannas, but quite informative nonetheless

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials.html
http://www.3dtotal.com/tutorials/

Buying a dvd and/or book is also recommendable, but for the time being i think you have enough with the free tutorials on the internet.

this is a really a good tutorial that explains the basics of laying out UVs.

http://www.ramyhanna.com/texturing/p...utorial01.html

hope it helps.

i can't find the 'Edit Polygons' anywhere...in maya 8.5
i even don't have 'Modeling mode' there :confused:

The menus were changed in maya 8, its all in the polygons menuset in the create uv and edit uv menus