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Maya
Modeling a certain shape
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30 Jan 2007
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30 Jan 2007
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30 Jan 2007
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30 Jan 2007actually, there's a cleaner way to do it, and it uses some very simple tools, and will give you waaaaay less polygons and still allow you the ability to tweak it.
I took the liberty of taking some screenshots to aid the process.
First, start with a polygonal cylinder, about 8 or so sides should do, you can smooth it later to make it look nicer. Then create your profile curve from the middle of the cylinder in the shape you are trying to create. You should have something like the picture below at this point.
Now, select the top faces of the cylinder, and shift-select the profile curve. Then go to your edit mesh menu (edit poly for pre-maya
and select the option tab for Extrude face. You will want to make sure that you check the box that says "use selected curve for extrusion"
click on Extrude, and you should have something that looks like the image below.
Now you will want to take a look in the channel box and up the divisions from 1 to whatever it takes to make it look nice.
That's about it. Super simple, and you can still edit your curve to change the geometry. Try doing it with a curve that you turn into a dynamic hair. You can actually do some really cool things using this technique.
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30 Jan 2007Ah, good technique! Finally a way to do it that doesnt need 87234892347832 tris to look nice
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30 Jan 2007Hey guys, thanks a lot for the replies! Yeah i knew about the draw CV curve tool, and then snapping the cube to it, but like you said Jay, it always has about 87234892347832 tris in it so it'll look relativley good. Thanks man.
Excellent technique Zach! Thanks a lot for taking the screen shots, that's exactly what I was looking for. Did you draw the curve using the CV Curve tool with the linear setting as Jay described?
Have they re-named Edit Poly to Edit Mesh in Maya 8 have they? Wonder why that is?
Excellent stuff, I'll go ahead and try this when i go home later on tonight, thanks again! -
31 Jan 2007Excellent! That work's great Zach, thanks a lot!
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31 Jan 2007Yeah, I discovered that quite a while ago and never looked back. Especially because of the non-nurbs stuff.
The funny thing is that I was always like "I wish you could just draw a curve and extrude a face from it in Maya." Duh.
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Claymation 600 posts31 Jan 2007I <3 Zach. -
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