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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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Miscellaneous problems due to severe case of newbism

I'm looking for a place that contains hints to help new users when tutorials go wrong or don't cover some mysteries. Tutorials generally give a...

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by Zagan

02-01-2005|07:27 PM

Replies: 9

questions about game design/setting up maya

Hi there. I'm hoping someone can help with this but basically, I am new to Maya and am interested in designing video game levels. The areas...

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by Zagan

02-01-2005|07:11 PM

Replies: 7

snap has freaked out

If you want to snap one vertex to the grid in the y-axis, you move the vertex with the y-axis gizmo and hold and press the V-key. That doesn't work...

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by DJbLAZER

02-01-2005|12:32 PM

Replies: 4

UV projection window problem.

Trying to UV map a simple model via planar mapping, and for some reason, I'm not getting a projection window beside the model. Tried some other...

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by Mooseboy

02-01-2005|02:20 AM

Replies: 12

New Site - The Glass Prison

hey everyone thought i should let u all know that ive finally (almost) finished my new site: www.Glass-Prison.com has a lot of stuff on there...

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by Nem

01-01-2005|10:09 PM

Replies: 0

X-Ray shortcut

In the tutorials you use an X-Ray shortcut now ive found a script which can do this only it does not say where i should put this? And how can i...

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by R-Tillery

01-01-2005|09:27 PM

Replies: 6

happy new yr

just dropped by the site to wish a happy new yr to u all guys at SM

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by darijo203

01-01-2005|01:11 PM

Replies: 7

Smooth skinned characters

I'm a student at MIT working on my PhD in computer graphics. My research area is animation, and I'm currently working on a project where I can...

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by killraven

01-01-2005|01:15 AM

Replies: 6

Looking for the best outcome

I've got a model made up from quite a few simple polys, GI Joe set up for lighting, and two questions! 1) I was hoping to get some input from...

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by azimuth

31-12-2004|10:19 PM

Replies: 0

Did u get what you wished for? | Page: 1 2

as usual the fat man in the red suit gave me the smae thing he gives me every year, a sucker punch in my sleep and a big bag of nothing. oh well,...

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by DrRobotnik

31-12-2004|10:09 PM

Replies: 16

rendering an animation

i am trying to render a short simple animation and wish to be able to play it back as a gif... how do i go about doing this?

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by DrRobotnik

31-12-2004|10:02 PM

Replies: 1

Away for a Week

I'll be away for a week so dont let the place get all crazy=) I'll be able to check SM from time to time. Later Kurt

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by R-Tillery

31-12-2004|04:20 AM

Replies: 1

Maintaining Scale

I'm Staring on a simple short animation and i want to be able to use the grid to help get proper scale for each of my madels. Granted I could use...

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by brentlydavis

31-12-2004|03:34 AM

Replies: 0

Is it normal?

Hi! I just want to know how many polys usually have a movie production quality model (high res). I know its a stupid question but I made a very...

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by darijo203

30-12-2004|11:38 PM

Replies: 7

duplicate low-poly

im busy with modeling a Honda S2000 with a tutorial and now i must dublicate the bumper but it isnt working ...

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by Deathclaw

30-12-2004|05:35 PM

Replies: 7

Image Planes with stripes ?

http://pixelsoul.net/tmp/tmp.jpg Suddenly my image planes have little stripes on them, in the Hypershade editor the pictures are still on them?...

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by pixelsoul

30-12-2004|11:03 AM

Replies: 3

Split polygon, tutorial

I watched the "basic split polygon" tutorial, as im learning maya.. :p I watched the whole movie and thaught that wasn't to hard, but when i...

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by blomkaal

30-12-2004|08:45 AM

Replies: 2

maya training for english person in japan/tokyo

hi im an english/new zealand person who is now living in Tokyo, Japan. I would really like to have some help from someone here (who can speak...

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by darijo203

29-12-2004|06:17 PM

Replies: 1

menus gone

Um yea i was just messing around with stuff and i was closing the menus and thinking there would be button or something to put them back up. but i...

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by beyondjtu

29-12-2004|05:03 AM

Replies: 3

Maya F1 help not working

A quick question, each time I press F1 or go to Help -> Maya Help..., maya simply loads up my internet browser and tries to load this url -...

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by beyondjtu

29-12-2004|04:42 AM

Replies: 4

Making studs on wheels

I am working out of the book " Introducing Maya 6 3D for Beginners" I am doing the catapult. I am in the process of making the wheels. I have...

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by Shatter

29-12-2004|04:05 AM

Replies: 3

Selections

I've got quite a simple question - I've set up my image planes - though not sure I've done it completely right. I want to make them so I can't select...

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by thedoofus

28-12-2004|08:25 PM

Replies: 2

Boolean problem..

With the tree frog tutorial it says, the 2 parts should overlap, then select it hit enter, then select the other one hit enter then do : Polygons...

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by pixelsoul

28-12-2004|05:52 PM

Replies: 8

importing error message

when i try to import a maya binary file into a current project i get an error message which reads the namespace name *contains no legal characters...

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by antiant

28-12-2004|03:36 PM

Replies: 1

Image Plane problem

Ok here's what's wrong.. i've created 3 image planes (front, side, top) all added them on the appropriate view... the only problem is that the side...

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