Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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Mike or anyone who can help - uv mapping?
The thing is when i have my character selected and i open the uv texture editor
all thats displayed in there is the top right square is filled ( im going to include a pic ).
What am i doing wrong here?
Also is there a simple way to reduce the polygon count and then increase it at the end of all the modeling / texturing because like i said before my comp starts to slow up when i try and extract body parts ( as shown in your tutorial ).
My poly count is 11384
Thanks again Mike
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If you still have history from your smooth, you can set the smooth's divisions back to 0, which will take your model to its original state. If not, there isn't an easy way to reduce it.
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I've managed to seperate the model parts quickly now i just went :- Edit polygons > Extract > then I unchecked the seperate extracted faces box, not sure if thats the right way to go about it but it did seperate ok.
Sorry Mike i may be being real dumb here but I thought your tutorial was about showing how to uv map my model for texturing?
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Sorry ive only been using Maya for two weeks with no manual :: collage disks :: so things you probably find real easy are very new to me. Anyway, ive used a cylindrecial uv map on the whole object, then the object appears in the editor window.
So now i'm gonna start your tutorial again and start breaking my object into parts... watch this space ;-)
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