Surfing with the Alien - Missing his Surfboard

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.

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# 1 08-07-2013 , 07:10 AM

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Surfing with the Alien - Missing his Surfboard

Hi I'm working my way through the Surfing with the Alien tutorial by Jay (see my Work in Progress post user added image

) but I've run into a slight problem. In part twelve 21:38 Jay imports a scene file called surfboard.mb into his scene which has the image planes set up and ready. However I can't find them in the tutorial files and scenes that I've downloaded. Is this missing or am I just missing where it is? Thanks in advance.

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# 2 08-07-2013 , 10:30 AM

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I'll check it out for you.

Dave

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# 3 08-07-2013 , 11:13 AM

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Thanks for that. user added image

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# 4 08-07-2013 , 10:08 PM

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Also interested in getting my hands on the checker-map that Jay uses when UVing the model. I had a shot at creating one myself but it just doesn't work as good.

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# 5 08-07-2013 , 11:27 PM

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Still looking for the file i'll email Jay if i can't find it tomorrow on one of the servers. Sorry about the delay.

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# 6 08-07-2013 , 11:54 PM

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You can just google for UV checker texture, there's lots. Or you can use the one I made which is obviously the best (jk, kinda). I'd point you to it, but my site is down cause Mississauga is without power and everything is flooded.