Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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How to create a Helix along path
I'am doing an old dial phone.How can i create a Helix along a curve path?
I've tried to bend the Helix,which was created with polygon prmitives,with the bend deformer but this is not working well.
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But the main idea is start with a cube and a path. Extrude the cube along the path. Modify the twist parameter of the extrude node. Extract one of the edges and you have your helix along a path and best of all its history is still attached to the original curve so you can move it around.
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That sounds good,better then try to rig it. I will try it out,but could you post the tut anyway please?? I think I don't know how to extract edges.
TnX for the Support man!!
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I am still not sure why some of my links show an image and some only show a hyperlink???
Here are a couple links....Sorry about the length, I tend to ramble on a lot.
https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthre...t=twisted+wire
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howto - model a twisted wire that follows a path.mp4 - YouTube
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Phone cord Maya tutorial pt 2 - YouTube
Maybe Dave would have a chance to watch it and then remake something that is more understandable as he is the MAC-DADDY of the nSystem stuff!!! (smile)
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