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Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

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# 1 05-12-2004 , 05:30 PM

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tuned car, driver and streets. We'll see what come's out of this user added image

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# 2 08-12-2004 , 07:31 PM

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can someone tell me what is a normal wheel and body polycount.

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# 3 09-12-2004 , 12:28 AM

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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just keep it all under 7000. Obviously, you won't have perfectly round wheels, but alot as many as you think necessary to them.

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# 4 11-12-2004 , 08:54 AM

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thanks Mike. I have currently about 500 faces counting in one wheel. 2 body sides have about 250faces. I want to add some more details like side skirts, back bumber and into hood some holes user added image

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# 6 11-12-2004 , 03:01 PM

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One thing you can do for the spokes of the wheels is make them a texture detail rather than a geometry detail. Use transparancy maps to cut in the holes.

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# 7 11-12-2004 , 11:05 PM

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Thnx for all those good comments.
But I have a problem that has pissed me off. When I extrude a face and move it it turns black and stays that way eaven when rendered.

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# 8 11-12-2004 , 11:16 PM

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Check if the normals are flipped, or just soften/harden the normals.

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# 9 12-12-2004 , 12:21 AM

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Allready tried this and it didn't work.

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# 10 12-12-2004 , 02:24 AM

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use region select over a vertex and make sure there is only 1 and not 2 overlapping, if there are 2 you need to merge vertices, make sure the face normal is facing outward, and lastly check and see if there are 2 faces overlapping also try smoothing

check your extrude options, make sure keep faces together is on

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# 11 12-12-2004 , 02:45 PM

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# 12 13-12-2004 , 01:16 AM

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so what was the problem in the end? u might wan to make that road stripe a little thinner, its a quarter the size of the car :p
lookin good though, keep it up and youl be done in no time

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# 13 13-12-2004 , 06:11 AM

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I stll don't know what wos the problem but I got over it when extracting the problematical faces and then again merging them together.

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# 14 13-12-2004 , 10:00 AM

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Looking good, although as 13uRneR said you'll need to watch the scale of the rest of the scene.

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# 15 13-12-2004 , 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by lonepig
Looking good, although as 13uRneR said you'll need to watch the scale of the rest of the scene.

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Yes. I allready have some objekts and buildings done. On the road I throwed a quick image.