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 complex objects.
# 1 24-04-2012 , 05:34 AM
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WTF is this?

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It just started happening for no reason, it's appears as I zoom out from the object and gets worse the further out I zoom. If I zoom back close it disappears.

It looks to me like duplicated mesh sitting on top of itself but that couldn't have actually happened and it's on every layer of things I haven't touched.

This is scary.

# 2 24-04-2012 , 05:49 AM
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That's easy. It's your near clipping plane.

Go to view, camera attributes and look at you near and far clipping plane settings. They kind of work together. You cannot have one humongously large and the other set too small. Just to test things set the far to 10000, and the near to .1 and see if that clears it up. It also depends on your scene units as 10000cm and .1cm is quite different then 10000m and .1m

I first encountered this a long time ago when I was trying to zoom in on a vertex and it kept clipping so I went and changed my near clipping plane to .0001 and as soon as I zoomed an inch away from my model I started getting those artifacts. But I could zoom in really close to verts lol


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# 3 24-04-2012 , 07:19 AM
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I did suspect that, as that is exactly what I did before this happened, thank you so much for illuminating this WTF moment.

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