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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If anyone has a good direction for me to follow for doing that I would appreciate it as I would really like to model this tread instead of doing a bump map.
Any ideas?
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This is using Polygons. I wouldn't even attempt that with Nurbs. >shiver< Scary.
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however nurbs can be done by just revolving a lat surface and then applying a bump map to it. I've done both poly and nurbs metods and the work fine.
polys would probably be easier though.
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It's a NURBS CV Curve, with a lofted piece in the middle (the angular type piece of tread), then scaled across the Z axis at -1 then I duplicated the entire tread piece about 60 times (cannot remember due to many trial and errors), then used the BEND deformation tool to bend it.
As you can see, there are imperfections using this method and I don't know if they are because my tread "slices" were to wide or what, but a good attempt at tackling the NURBS avenue non-the-less I think.
If there are some good tutorials on how to achieve the perfect tread look with polys or anything else, I'd love to see them. I did search for the McLaren but didn't find anything on making tires. Perhaps I didn't look close enough.
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This is apparantly a technique used by brian ellebracht among others so in other words good
Only problem is it ups your poly count a lot.
Check out the subsurfacescattering on my tongue...
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first of all i'd say that your wheel looks pretty good alreayd. if it wans't for the seams i'd say it's finished.
sorry i couldn't give you the adress before but i was at school and was not suposed to use the internet
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