Kurts dog tutorial

# 1 05-06-2006 , 08:27 AM

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I've just started using maya (Persenal learning edition) And I wanted to make that cartoon dog Kurt shows in the turtorial, But when I get to the third part (where I have to make it to one peace of geometry) I get a problem.

At the start of the third part you have to set the neck and the head together, I clicked on the neck and hold down shift and press the head go to Polygons > Booleans > Union, that works fine. But when I try to conect the head+neck to the body it just disapear.

Anyone knows what Im doin wrong?

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# 2 05-06-2006 , 10:56 AM

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thats booleans for u - happens all he time not really a way to get round it may b u could manually merge the verts n that area

i cant remem but r u nt surposed to hit enter after selecting both objects then do union???? (some1 else might know more on this)

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# 3 05-06-2006 , 11:46 AM

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Yes, He said that In the tutorial, but when I hit "Enter" nothing happend :O. thanks anyway, Pbman

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# 4 05-06-2006 , 03:49 PM

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i know. i dont see why u have to hit enter when nothing happens.
I wonder if he's just screwing with us lol
but as for ur question i would make sure all the surfaces are going through one another otherwise do what he does on the tutorial for the hind leg.

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# 5 05-06-2006 , 05:51 PM

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I've tried too, but its like when I've have two things together and I put the third thing on, it just disapear.

For example: The head+neck just disapear
when I set the body on.

And same goes for The body+leg,
when I try to set the other leg on the body,
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# 6 05-06-2006 , 09:47 PM

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Well, you can select both objects and go Polygons > Combine. Then just select pairs of vertices and merge them together in Polygons > Merge Vertices

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# 7 06-06-2006 , 12:30 PM

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try to "insert" the small part into the large part,i mean there should be no gap between two different parts,kurt mention that in the turtorial user added image