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Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

# 91 03-07-2011 , 09:32 PM

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If you have UV's on separate objects you do get overlapping, so you have to do some retopo work and then bake (all) the maps onto the lowress

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Sorry, of course you're correct. I thought in this example though the objects you were talking about were one mesh, laid out in the 0-1 UV space and non-overlapping, in which case you could seperate and re-merge any way you wanted.

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# 92 03-07-2011 , 09:48 PM

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yeah, this is 8 seperate subtools, each with its own set of uvs. I uv'd each subtool individually in Zbrush using UV Master.

I originally then tried to manipulate all the uv sets onto just 3 maps in Maya, but had a complication back in ZBrush, so I just went with the easy route at the time which was to just let uv master do the work, and keep everything pretty seperate.

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# 93 03-07-2011 , 09:53 PM

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well either combine all the subtools and do UV master again , or separate the subtools in a logical way ( I.E. shoulderpads, shinarmor etc) and do UV's on each object again ( with UV master this is done in a jiffy)and import them in Maya there parent geometry that is not in thebind to nearby joints and your done...more or less user added image

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# 94 03-07-2011 , 10:02 PM

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for a rendertest i have just used the multimap exporter to bake out colour, normal, and ao for each subtool. If I decide to try and rig I might try your solution Mastone. I reckon this might be a bit complicated for me though.

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# 95 03-07-2011 , 10:13 PM

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Here it is...

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# 96 03-07-2011 , 11:24 PM

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I'm just noticing that the lower cloth piece is a bit more wrinkled than in the ref you showed, and it's also colored pretty similar to the skin, so it looks a bit odd... if you know what I mean. Looks great though, congrats on getting this render out of maya!

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# 97 03-07-2011 , 11:27 PM

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Ta Stwert. Wasnt that hard once I had all the maps named properly and organised. Which lower piece of cloth? The trousers?

Edit: Did abit of photoshoppy stuff to it after too.

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# 98 03-07-2011 , 11:30 PM

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I guess it's the trousers; they're green in your zbrush and the ref.

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# 99 03-07-2011 , 11:34 PM

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oh ok. Yeah, they are same colour, well....it's the same colour from Zbrush, carried across in a texture map. Maybe the final gather...I gave it a blue tint, which has pulled it closer to the colour of the skin. Not intentionally. Im not too fussed if it's not identical to the original ref. Was just a guide really.

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# 100 05-07-2011 , 10:01 PM

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Back to Meryl for a bit. sculpting and colouring as I go.

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# 101 07-07-2011 , 07:33 PM

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Bit more painting today, fiddling about with materials, and done some playing in Photoshop.

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# 102 07-07-2011 , 08:26 PM

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The skulls are comming to life Ben are you using spec in zbrush..........dave

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# 103 07-07-2011 , 08:33 PM

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ive been trying some different materials. metals and stuff. But wanted a more ambient, sss-y one for the skulls. Theres one I like, downloaded from ZCentral, called AL_Ossuary, that's what's helped the skulls.

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