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# 16 18-11-2012 , 11:21 AM

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Nice little tutorial there priimate I think that will come in usefull in the future, I think I have come to the conclusion the quickest way is to just cut the angle of a cylinder with the cut face tool then delete faces above the cut then just snap the verts up to create the straight face then fill the hole...............dave

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# 17 18-11-2012 , 09:51 PM

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I prefer using the cutter and boolean method. More control and fewer steps. But I fully understand there are lots of ways to do the same thing in Maya and you have to use the workflow that you are most comfortable with.

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# 18 18-11-2012 , 09:54 PM

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Nice tip primate it would not have dawned on me to use the non-linear flare tool that way

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# 19 07-12-2012 , 10:08 PM

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Here is another method that I used all the time but had forgotten about until the other day.

This I think is actually the cleanest method to produce a linear falloff in maya. It uses the Lattice deformer.

howto manual linear falloff using the lattice deformer - YouTube

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