Hello Lilnyc,
I would model the top flap separately and use a bend deformer (Deform_Nonlinear_Bend) to deal with the curve - you would need a few subdivisions in the mesh to make it bend smoothly....

Beautiful - is that mental ray?

Hi GabrielG
Select the object in the perspective view, then right click over the material in the hypershade and select 'assign material to viewport selection' from the list. If the object remains...

I found this very helpful when starting out
https://www.3dbuzz.com/training/view/mastering-maya-introduction/introduction...

Hi Malus,
Right click over the remaining plane - Object Mode - then press delete.

Don't give up!

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Hello Stylow,
Select the face as you have done then Edit Mesh - Extrude, but only use the offset control of the extrude to get the result.

Hello,
I've recently updated to 2016 and seem to have a recurrent problem when using the smooth mesh preview. Once the '3' key is used, pressing '1' turns the mesh solid green and reverts it's...

Hello,
The problem with your geometry is that you have an uneven amount of axis subdivisions in the original cylinder (if my counting is correct) -25 - you need an even number like 24. It's probably...

Fantastic illustrations