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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 03-10-2004 , 10:29 PM

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Hi. I've created a curve and duplicated it to get a mirrored one. When I extract them they dont extract at the same direction. How do you change that?

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# 2 03-10-2004 , 10:40 PM

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Well, either you can mirror one over the X/Z plane (without making a copy), or just move one up or down.

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# 3 03-10-2004 , 10:44 PM

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try freezing transformations on the duplicate before extracting.

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# 4 03-10-2004 , 10:56 PM

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tried freeze transormations before extracting but no difference. Even tried to duplicate one and then rotate it 180 degress and then freeze transofmrations, but still they get extracted differently... ?

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# 5 04-10-2004 , 02:40 AM

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try delete history.

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# 6 04-10-2004 , 09:13 AM

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still no change (coz there is no history to delete)

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# 7 04-10-2004 , 10:26 AM

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Reverse curve direction?

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# 8 04-10-2004 , 01:12 PM

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duplicate it with a -1 scale in the x direction and then freeze transforms.

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# 9 04-10-2004 , 06:45 PM

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Pure_Morning: that's exactly what I did

kbrown: what do you mean?

Somewhere inside thise curve objects there must be some kind of info, like local axis or something.. but where.. user added image