Yeah, I had the Two objects going completely through each other. It works at times, with certain objects, but not with others...

I was making a few objects in Maya 7, and when i tried to a booleans operation, the two objects just get deleted. I thought it might be a prob with the settings, so i brought a cube and a cylinder...

Thanx a mil. Its been driving me nuts...

Could anybody tell me how to "paint" faces to select them, so that instead of having a marquee selection option, i just click and run the curser over any faces that i want to select. I have used that...

You could try going to Display > Heads Up Display > Poly Count and click on the poly count. That might get it off. When its on, you can see the count up in the top left hand corner. That might work.

Do you know any links for tutorials for the texturing. I have tried to do it a few times, but all I could really do was the ordinary texturing onto a plain face.

So did you just texture it normally, and then turn on the vector shading in maya?

I'll check that out. Cheers

I know exactly what ya mean about the vastness. I have a mate that uses 3d canvas a lot, and he showed me a good few things aboput maya, although there's so much in it, I doubt that you could ever...

Rigging is being able to make the object move, either by inserting bones into the model or using IK/Fk. The pivots in the bones that allow the movements is the rigged part. At least, that is what i...