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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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# 31 07-12-2002 , 06:58 PM

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the main reason Maya is chosen over XSI in Hollywood is coz os MEL and is flexability

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# 32 07-12-2002 , 07:00 PM

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XSI has its SDK tho user added image

kev: we should have a simplycombustion/simplyshake site or something, because every 3d package needs a compositor to go with it

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# 33 07-12-2002 , 07:14 PM

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XSI has its SDK tho

kev: we should have a simplycombustion/simplyshake site or something, because every 3d package needs a compositor to go with it

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I may open a section of the forum to have things like shake and deep paint 3d in, but i dont think that these 2 products could survive and have a community base on their own.

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# 34 07-12-2002 , 07:14 PM

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Every major package has some sort of scripting language... some are easier than others. user added image

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# 35 07-12-2002 , 07:17 PM

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not a simplyshake.com coz you can only buy that for apple now (you can only by the upgrade for windows now...not the full version)

i'm looking at Nuke, not that I will be able to afford it at $10,000 per license....AFX from now on

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# 36 07-12-2002 , 10:39 PM

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afx looks too weird to me, its so simple yet so daunting!
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# 37 07-12-2002 , 11:40 PM

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to be honest....(i know a lot of maya fanataics will kill me for this)...maya's renderer does suck(w/o mr)....i think alias has been overlooking on this for too long.....what i would like to see is good exposure control,good gi,good light tracer like thing,good caustics and more aaliasing filters.....i hope the guys at alias read this hohoho :-) this is the only reason thats holding me back from purchasing maya and y i still use max for pretty much everything i was paid to do :-)

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# 38 09-12-2002 , 03:16 AM

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we need a way to get A|W's attention really, let them know what maya users want

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# 39 09-12-2002 , 11:57 AM

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The main reason Maya's renderer isn't up to much is coz when it was really expensive the main users were big effects houses, and they usually used PRman to render

but now that the price is a lot less, it came into the general publics price range. This is the main reason for giving us MR

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# 40 09-12-2002 , 07:50 PM

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i read that in my 3d world yesterday as well.

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# 41 10-12-2002 , 02:50 AM

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anyway...maya is still cool :-)....im getting the hang of it :-) what i vant get used to is how things get unwired,specially the textute and materials aplied...very annoying :-)

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# 42 10-12-2002 , 05:14 AM

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Hey Nem, check out this feature that's been up on A|W's website for a long time,

https://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/com...erequest.shtml

You put in your feature requests. Pretty cool huh? user added image

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# 43 10-12-2002 , 06:11 PM

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thats madness!! but so cool!
i bet everyone asked for a better renderer huh

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# 44 10-12-2002 , 11:23 PM

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Originally posted by Nem
i think we should write plugins for maya and stuff and totally change the program with stuff we like

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you go ahead and do it. my plugin would be doing nothing. but it would still install all the cool stuff in maya the way i want them to be in. user added image

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# 45 12-12-2002 , 07:15 AM

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Every software has it's day. Remember how popular 3dMax once was? Still is but nothing compared to what it once was. Maya will eventually be outdone by other software - that is inevitable. Maybe the time for that is now. I hope not, considering I spent the last 7 months learning it. =|

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