No Ngons here.

This is from a very entry level tute explaining poly,nurbs,subd..

Well that's not the answer I wanted to hear.. but thx.

Guessing the above reasons are why I was steered away from Subd?

It's just I saw someone (in a vid.. somewhere) using hierarchal editing...

Was searching for tutorials on Subdivision Surface modelling, after getting excited by a YouTube clip on Pixars OpenSubDiv project.

I never liked Patch modelling- nurbs in general.

I was told...

Yesterday I encountered this problem.. and don't remember it being an issue before?

I modelled an ornate table, made a leg and tried to 'duplicate special' it to make the other legs... only they...

Been enjoying my return to Maya.. however there have been small hurdles I have been going around, as I cant seem to work them out.. hoping you can help me.

Now running 2014.

1) I cant seem to...

Would you be willing to post the .ma or .mb file?

Or even a different angle/wireframe shaded.

Rotating each joint manually is indeed a bothersome process..

In Forward kinematics you control the hips and leg joint and knee joint and ankle joint to get a foot where you want it.
In Inverse...

The way it was explained to me. was simply 'Every time your view of your scene/viewport changes in anyway, Maya has to redraw your objects on screen. It does this by taking an (.obj plotted data...

Thank you for your input.

Guess nuke it is. I have been using Playblast to view my sequences and also plain old Fcheck to compile my image sequences... Just realised I'm wanting to start dipping...

The last time I made an animation it was in Adobe Premiere...

I did look into AE a few years back but my 'return' to both 3d and Animation was short lived.

I am now resurrecting a project that...