sigh ok;
I am working through the game artist guide to maya. In chapter 2 the first thing you do is make the sword for silinus the warror saytire. I open the black and white drawing of just the sword in the main screen. i click on create new poligon so i can start tracing the blade out. I trace out the bottom of the blade and halfway through i cannot finish becasue it will not let me trace out the top half of the blade. When i look at the picture I can see the grid on the bottom half of the picture ( it looks transparent ) but i cannot see the the grid behind the top half of the sword ( not transparent ) if I could describe it a little better i would say the grid on the main screen seems to lie flat while the black and white drawing of the sword seem to occupy a more 3d plane and hovers above it thus preventing me from adding polygans on the area where the grid "ends". any help? i don't want to take the book back but I am getting frustrated after 2 days of not being able to beyond chapter 2.