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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 23-09-2006 , 06:20 AM

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I need some help making a vent. It's to incorporate in my assault mech.
Anyone any ideas to make one of these like in a gifffie?

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# 2 23-09-2006 , 06:42 AM

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well with the kind i'm thinking of it would take longer to explain than to make... i'd take a cylinder, select half the verts (from top to bottom, with half of each cap selected but not the middle vertex from each), offset them a unit or so, then rotate it so it's at a 45 degree angle, duplicate the hell out of it, and then offset each about half a unit or so... the end result would look almost like a set of blinds... is this the kind of vent you have in mind? (making the frame all depends on the shape you want your vent to be so i won't go into too much detail besides making a curve, duplicating it and scaling the duplicate larger, making a loft between the two, and then making an extude using the larger of the curves so it's got depth)

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