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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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Age Of Empires III

Hello Everybody... long time no chat.. but I just wanted to let you guys know about the upcomming AOE III (at least for those who dont know about...

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by Emo

23-01-2005|10:35 PM

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Polygon Boolean operation not working

Hello, I'm just starting to learn Maya 5, because i will be using Maya in college for Game Design in a few months or so. RIght now im modeling...

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by Haro14@msn.com

23-01-2005|09:23 PM

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Help with cartoon Dog

I need help with the tutorial of the cartoon dog!! when the guy is making the head and look on it from front it looks similar on both sides....

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by Haro14@msn.com

23-01-2005|09:14 PM

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Shortcut? Attach to normals

I know its relatively easy to do this the hard way (manually keyframe), but say you have a car, and you want the cam to stick to the hood, back door,...

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by Phopojijo

23-01-2005|02:43 AM

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texturing to photoshop

ok i made my 3d object with MAYA ,make my planar mapping , applied two checker red and black just two differentes textures, ...

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by thanenbauk

22-01-2005|09:05 PM

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Need 3ds max import for maya

Hey eveyone dose any one have a working 3dmax import for maya 6 I d/l the one from alais but its still not working. Thanks Kurt

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by R-Tillery

22-01-2005|06:13 PM

Replies: 5

Need help

I teyed the cartoon dog tutorial but when im modeling the head 1 side looks good and other sux :( The guy's head in the video look similar on...

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by uberstonks

22-01-2005|04:55 PM

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Curves Selection problem

When i create those curves cycle and try to select them its select all of the cyrcle and i the only part i want to select is the area of the circle...

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by uberstonks

22-01-2005|02:31 PM

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Frozen Dynamics

Is it possible to have a dynamic particle animation be frozen in time to take frames of the EXACT same placement of the particles (IE: So that the...

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by Velusion

21-01-2005|05:34 PM

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2 questions..

I have 2 questions first, 1. I want to extrude these faces, with keep faces togheter off.. as you can see in the screenshot the faces in the...

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by pixelsoul

21-01-2005|05:33 PM

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need with with creating water with soft bodies.

hi, firstly what i have done is this tutorial http://www.3d-palace.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4107 it doesnt work for me :/ i have done...

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by Napster

21-01-2005|03:54 PM

Replies: 4

Perspective/Outline

:rolleyes: I'm following the apache tutorial, and it says i should drag the parent items out of it.. Only nothing happens when i drag it? Do I...

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by pixelsoul

21-01-2005|03:47 PM

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melting goo tutorial?

Hello everyone - I just signed up here, and the site looks great! I was hoping that I might be able to save some time plowing through tutorial after...

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by chads

21-01-2005|03:39 PM

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raytracing problem

hi, does anyone know how to do selective raytracing? i have an object within a scene and i dont want that specific object to be raytraced because...

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by Alan

21-01-2005|09:54 AM

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reflections

hi, is there a way to make an object not reflect certain things? Eg. i have water and two boxes above it. how can i make the water only have a...

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by Alan

21-01-2005|09:50 AM

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avoiding texture distortion

Hi everyone, I'm modeling a bedroom scene in order to show off some bedding patterns. When I model the comforter, sheets, pillows, etc., and then...

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by mhcannon

21-01-2005|06:22 AM

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Maya->UT2004 Export problem

HALP!! Here's a rough, untriangulated view of the model I'm working on: http://www.provide.net/~hettmer/images/prm1.jpg I rigged and roughly...

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by Mooseboy

21-01-2005|01:30 AM

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Plug-ins

Hey everyone, Im new in Maya and i just learn it for about a week ... i downloaded Toon shader plug in, that i thought will be usefull in creating...

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by InvaZimm

20-01-2005|10:45 PM

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Clusters pointing at sphere troubles

Hi again, I have 8 planes and I am trying to point the clusters in the middle from each individual plane to a sphere. I have eight strips so I...

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by moffiosso

20-01-2005|10:13 PM

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need help with duplcate objects fast

hi, i have amde a duplicate of a plane which has soft bodies and is animated. i have duplicated all of its properties so that they both animate...

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by matt4068

20-01-2005|03:41 PM

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ik handle mind of it's own

howdy folks just wanna say what an amazing site and community u have here. it's been a great help over the last few days since i began this learning...

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by mtmckinley

20-01-2005|01:58 PM

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what it says about Johnny whatever on gamespot

Cheers Mike:D ....so anyluck in japan:D

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by mtmckinley

20-01-2005|05:49 AM

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mel woes

I have a mel script I am trying to load and use everytime MAYA loads just as a CV or EP curve tool would. Simple right? wrong I have googled my arse...

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by InvaZimm

20-01-2005|02:54 AM

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Transfer Surface Information

Decided to have a go at creating a simple normal map in Maya, so I looked it up in the help (searched for transfer surface information) and followed...

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by uberstonks

20-01-2005|12:38 AM

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Zipper and Belt Buckle?

would there be a way to attatch a zipper to a peice of cloth to say a sweater or to some pants and attatching a belt buckle to a belt? if so how...

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by tece

19-01-2005|11:10 PM