How To Make New Surfaces

Beer glass scene creation

This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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# 1 07-02-2012 , 08:11 PM

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My imported models to Maya only have one surface and I require to resurface them and add material in Maya but am unable to find a easy way to do this?

I used Lightwave 3d previously and I could easily open my models in Modeller and choose the polygons etc. and give tme new name to apply textures\surface.

Is there similar functionality in Maya?

Thanks.

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# 2 07-02-2012 , 09:04 PM

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I can go back in to Lightwave Modeller and create the surfaces but would rather do all in Maya. Must be a way to do this...

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# 3 07-02-2012 , 09:10 PM

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you can extract faces or select the faces you want to give a different material and assign a material to them

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# 4 07-02-2012 , 09:17 PM

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The "Mesh>Separate" command doesn't help break up the model in a way that's manageable?

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# 5 07-02-2012 , 09:29 PM

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Thanks, works but its going to take me time to get used to this way of adding materials.

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# 6 07-02-2012 , 09:35 PM

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Figured it out.

Select the model, right click, go to Faces, Highlight the Faces needed, Right click again and you have a choice of assigning materials.

Its a bit fiddly but it works.

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