attaching halves

# 1 09-06-2006 , 01:06 PM

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How'dy peoples, how are you all?
I'm new to Maya and loving it.

I am in the process of doing the cartoon dog tutorial and have a problem after attaching the two halves of the model.
Basically there is a line around the model where the two halves meet. This is after converting to subd. I am confident I've merged all the vertices correctly. Some help as to why this occurs and how to fix it would great.

Cheers guys.

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# 2 09-06-2006 , 01:09 PM

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can you post a screen shot of the problem ?

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# 3 09-06-2006 , 02:10 PM

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Hello.

Well, there seems to be no problem anymore. I went back and re-attached the halves again, merged vertices, convert to subd and all was good.

Anyway, here is the model so far.

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# 4 09-06-2006 , 03:14 PM

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well your dog is looking good ..keep us posted on more updates ..you are doing a good job ..i never got that far in the dog lmao I gave up so congrats

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# 5 09-06-2006 , 03:27 PM

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u may have needed to just soften ur normals

Now at SMU doing BSc 3D Computer Animation so its hard to get on here
My wire render tut https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20973

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# 6 09-06-2006 , 04:34 PM

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converting to subD would have automatically softened the normals, so i don't think that was the problem...i've come across isntances in maya where i merge the vertices, but they don't actually connect, despite how high i set the distance...that may have been what happened...that they merged, but didn't really merge, if you know what i mean.

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