Cutting Holes into Polys

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This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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# 1 07-11-2004 , 06:25 AM

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I am in need of some help, I need to make a hole in a polygon object and i cant seem to find any way of doing it. Heres an example, i need to create a hole that goes all the way through a sword. Here you guys might know about the new final fantasy short film coming out and i wanted to make Cloud's buster sword.

Anyhelp on makeing holes in polygons would be great!

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# 2 07-11-2004 , 06:59 AM

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use boolean tools in maya to cut out parts, or manually do it

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# 3 07-11-2004 , 07:09 AM

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Hi there,

I'm new as well, but I think I can give you some help. After you create the polygon object, hold down the right mouse button, and select faces. Then select a face, and press delete on your keyboard.

Hope that helps.

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