Sphere and Cylinder Conundrum

# 1 22-04-2014 , 09:56 PM

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Hi Guys,

Rreally new to Maya here and loving it user added image

, first post so please go easy on me. This one i bet is a real noobster, i can't for the life of me figure out the best way to do this within Maya, tried booleans, messy and not what i want. Watched many of ctbram0267 vids on youtube amongst countles other posts here ( although i may have missed them ). So please if anyone can take the time to show/exlain the best/cleanest way to attach a cylinder to a sphere id really appreciate it.
This is just some practice for me i don't need to know how to attach these objects for any particular reason, I think what im really after is how to attach these or two curved surfaces together cleanly.
Sorry for what im sure is a dumb question, Im just practising modelling and thought, it would be really handy to know how to do this, attached is a pick of the two shapes in question, id like it to look like this when smoothed nice crisp sharp edges etc, thank you in advance user added image

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Mazzink

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# 2 22-04-2014 , 10:20 PM

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I would rotate the sphere so it is in the same axis as the cylinder. You'll find it a lot easier to join up. Or rather have the cylinder vertically oriented on top of the sphere and then rotate the whole mesh to the side after.

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# 3 22-04-2014 , 11:09 PM

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Also reduce the polys for the sphere and cylinder............dave

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# 4 23-04-2014 , 10:23 PM

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Hi Guys,

Thanks alot for the replies, both things i hadn't thought about. But with that said im more curious how i would punch holes into objects, i think i picked those two objects as being a difficult one, more to the point there are plenty of tutorials on adding different shapes to each other but i couldn't find one with these two objects. Stwert at the risk of sounding child like what if i was unable to move the sphere and had to do it the hard way ? I understand concepts of support edges and edge loops etc what i can't seem to do is keep the curvature of both objects intact, sorry guys im sure this kind of question is as frustrating to you guys as it is for me, i may be biting off more than i can chew right now but any tips or references for me to study would be greatly appreciated. user added image

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Mazzink

Last edited by Mazzink; 23-04-2014 at 10:26 PM.

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