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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 27-06-2005 , 02:01 AM

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Hi, I am, well the ultimate newb at maya, try, this is my first day. I have dabbled Lightwave, and worked a bit in Cinema 4d, but Maya is what I really want to learn. I was trying to follow this tutorial : https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...tml?tut_id=64. I can follow the video just fine, and I am using Maya 6.5 Unlimited. When it says to go into the Hypershades, I do that, but as opposed to 'Create Material', I have 'Create Maya Nodes'. When I just follow the directions from there, even though I am not in 'Create Material', when I try to Middle-mouse-drag the material onto my plane, nothing happens, it simply changes to a different shade of grey. I tried rotating around in the Perspective view, but still no dragon image.:headbang:. Can anyone help me with this?
(Sorry that I am still a newb.)

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# 2 27-06-2005 , 02:42 AM

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Press "6" when in the persp view. this will activate the "textured view" mode.

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# 3 27-06-2005 , 04:10 AM

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Thanks! Also, why does it say Maya Nodes, and not materials?

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# 4 27-06-2005 , 04:38 PM

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Maya is node based, i.e. everything in Maya is a node. There are shape nodes, material nodes, transfrom nodes, etc. Maya has a great help file, just press "F1"

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