NURBS THINK RUBBERY (organic) . . . . POLYS THINK SOLID (non-organic)

When animating WITHOUT painting weights you can vividly see the difference. A poly will crease at it's edges where a...

Reading your question further: Don't try to connect curves to a live patch. They won't. They can be drawn on a live object, make Not Live to connect. If I didn't understand the Q please re post. ...

Starting with a Poly is the problem. If I understand correctly You would start with a nurbs surface, Make live, Place on CV curves. Here is when you duplicate them so they are free floating. You...

As you know there are many ways of completing a task in Maya. I'm not quite sure I understand if this is what your looking for. Have you gone to help in your Maya menue bar & looked for "bevel"?...

Multiplatform (mac & PC) but this render was done on a mac. Forgot to mention I used NTSC where You might use Pal

I'm guessing Dynamics/Particles are used so you should not be in Maya Software, if so try Maya Hardware in Render Globals. Select .iff as I believe you can only get Z depth in .iff format....

Render using Hardware Render Buffer. Change its attributes in "Draw File" to wireframe. Thats it, Good Luck

Just Create a back view! Example: Get into the 4 view mode. Select the top view (RMB in top pane). In its menu bar select Panels > Perspective > New. Now in this new perspective view just Rotate...

If a couch was created & you want to put the texture of a couch on it. Dann is right you will have to do a UV layout. The texture will have to be created in photoshop or a program like that. If...

Do you want to delete prefs in a Mac or PC