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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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rendering the wire frame?

Hello, Can anyone help me with rendering the wire frame, or wireframe on shaded mode? I want to render my model with the wire frame on top of the...

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by 3DMONK

29-08-2003|02:56 PM

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Fur on Polys?

Im having a hard time puting Fur On my polygon Model, if any one can shine some light on the matter I'd be grateful:)

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by R-Tillery

29-08-2003|02:32 PM

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Mike - uv mapping?

Ok, near the start of your tutorial you have your unmapped character selected and when you open the uv texture editor window the character is...

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by juice690

29-08-2003|02:28 PM

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Offline tomorrow!

Between 3pm and 5pm GMT for maintenance. Hosted customers will be unaffected.

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by David

29-08-2003|01:42 PM

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shading/colouring? - what tha?

consider this a question from a complete newbie.....only started about a week ago: was wondering how i might actually go about shading/giving a...

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by mtmckinley

29-08-2003|01:39 PM

Replies: 1

IRC quotes *rofl*!

Check out this site... Has tons of hilarious IRC quotes on it :) Some examples: :D

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by Zyk0tiK

29-08-2003|10:15 AM

Replies: 2

UPDATES

Hey guys. I've updated the progress on my Thesis. http://forums.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4224 :beer:

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by dave_baer

29-08-2003|05:56 AM

Replies: 0

Sunflower seeds...

Are they laced with drugs? Because... Is it just me or are they addictive...?

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by Ultragames

29-08-2003|03:37 AM

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Tada! Finished!!! | Page: 1 2

Today I finished my MSc in Computer Animation.... oh happy days!!! :D 4 days off and then off to london..... :) Alan

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by Ultragames

29-08-2003|02:12 AM

Replies: 15

SGI Octane 2 / Panoram Tech | Page: 1 2

I was wondering if any of you Maya Guru's :D out there have used one of these systems before. I was asking as I might buy one of these at the end of...

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by dave_baer

29-08-2003|02:02 AM

Replies: 28

I have assigned a texture to Initial shader ...how do i get it off?

Hiya, I suppose it was bound to happen one day, I messed up by applying a texture to my Initial 'Lambert' ... I have searched forums but...

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by Scraggy_Dogg

29-08-2003|01:43 AM

Replies: 5

Brian Ellebracht...

Make room in your mailbox. I can't reply to your message. :p

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by dave_baer

29-08-2003|01:27 AM

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What Video Card....

Just curious. I'm running a Nvidia GF3 GTS which seems to run Maya fine......is it better to go for a quaddro or a more specific card suited to...

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by Zyk0tiK

29-08-2003|12:52 AM

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Extrusion of Holes

Create polygon tool to draw a rectangle and then another smaller one inside the big one, select the two at the same time and extrude, should this not...

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by TheGreenGiant

29-08-2003|12:40 AM

Replies: 12

Video tutorials

How does one make one, in simple terms and how does one get them on to these sites, is it just a question of a camera on the shoulder looking at the...

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by ragecgi

28-08-2003|09:05 PM

Replies: 4

How do ya texture a cube?

Here's my dilemma. I want to make a textured cube. Cubes have six sides, I have six textures. I'm making a simple children's ABC block. The problem...

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by Nataliia

28-08-2003|06:16 PM

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MR shaders an light linking

anyone have a good workflow for seting up mr shaders light linking for GI an caustics? thanks

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by gotboost

28-08-2003|06:00 PM

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Nurbs help!!!!!

I am attempting to model a car based on a tutorial. The one on the Subaru WRX. I am a newb with nurbs. In attempt to do this tutorial i can set up...

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by NitroLiq

28-08-2003|05:04 PM

Replies: 7

Semi-goodbye

Hey everyone, sorry I havn't been able to post recently, but my high school just kicked into gear :banghead: I won't be able to post much...

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by Kevin

28-08-2003|08:59 AM

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3D animators wanted

We are looking for a 3D Animation artist for freelance work. Please contact us. www.dfjproductions.com

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by craig_film

28-08-2003|05:34 AM

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ASCII Art

http://www.romanm.ch/ascii-movies.htm Check out the Itchy & Scratchy one.

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by Zyk0tiK

28-08-2003|01:16 AM

Replies: 1

Divx, Xvid and Maya

Hi all, im new to this site and maya and have a question about avi rendering. I've looked all over this site, used the fourms search engine,...

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by drknow

28-08-2003|12:09 AM

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Smooth/Harden Edges error

I get a syntax error when I set the Normals->Harden/Soften tool to 180 all soft (I wanted to see what it would do). Does this mean that there is some...

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by mtmckinley

28-08-2003|12:01 AM

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HOw do you get rid of blue placeholders around Sub-D's?

Hey guys, I have been working on my pod-racer and I noticed when I used Sub-D's that it places navy blue place holders around the objects. I...

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by SuperDave71

27-08-2003|07:23 PM

Replies: 9

Texture mapping

Hi there, i'm having trouble placing a texture map onto my model, i've tried placing the same texture onto another object - say a simple nurb sphere...

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