Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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That would probably better fit in the section "How did I"...
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congrats
how long u been @ maya ?
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. I am "working" with Maya for a half year now, I think. But I haven't done anything with Maya for a long time.Here's an update: I've added some detail (invisible at some distance
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, but why does the wave-deformer only deform the surface forward, but doesn't move any vert backwards? In the perp.view it looks completely different, and everything is fine, but when I render the scene, It looks as if it would only deform the surface after the sine-curve FORWARD, not backwards. Why??? There's no other surface in the scene, I think, which intersects with the surface?Thanx for any help and comments!
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BTW: Any suggestions on the SHADER? Does anyone know where to find a good-looking "Naquada"-shader?
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also, if that is a nurbs surface, which it looks like. before you render, you should go to the Set NURBs Tesselation options in the render menu and change it from medium to highest, it gives MUCH better render quality of NURBs surfaces
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Actually the wormholesurface is is a poly-surface. But I'll change that, I just didn't know how to create a circular nurbsurface. But I gues I only have to planarsurface a nurbscircle, righ?
I hope the deformers will work on nurb-surfaces, too...
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a low-poly surface could easily leave artifacts like the one you just had
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Ok, now I used a nurbs-circle to planar-surface a trimmed nurbs-surface and rebuilt it with 20*20 SubDivs. But when I tried to assign the wave-deformer, the surface didn't deform after the wave-line(see picture)
What's wrong with the surface?
(BTW:When I rebuilt the trimmed surface with 80*80 Subdivs, Maya crashed...)
But finaly, I recognized that this wave-effect wouldn't fit anyway. So I though about using the sculpt-surface tool. But how do I map a shader? I can only browse in the map-section for images... Can I convert a wave-2d-texture from Maya to a jpg-file?
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... Thanx anyways!I am still wondering, why my nurns-surface doesn't deform properly and how I can convert a shader (the wave-texture) to a jpg-file...
Here's a small update:
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Ok, another question: How can I rotate an object around the origin with the pivot-point left at another point. In this case: How to rotate the part of the stargate-iris around the origin with the pivot-point left above the origin so that the next Iris-part looks like the yellow painted in the picture here (preferably: How to do the transform-duplicate-tool make that work for me?):
And: Every time I attach a material to the particles (marked with the blue arrow) I am unable to see them in the rendered image. I know it was something easy to do, but I can't remember anymore! Please help
..Thank for any Help!!!
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