Maya 6 is SWEEEEEET

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 29-04-2004 , 07:42 PM

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Soft selection tools, Hair Support, Adobe photoshop file support (PSD straight to maya) high quality texture previews and get this.... Deformers for particle clusters. So far Version 6 is the SHIZNIT!.. Its got way more than what ive just posted. This is going to help so much in the movies im working on.

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# 2 29-04-2004 , 07:43 PM

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Just downloaded it and i cant stop playing with it.... arrrrrgggggg i got work to do....

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# 3 29-04-2004 , 07:56 PM

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sounds sweet dude! congratulations on getting it

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# 4 29-04-2004 , 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by iron_tick
Just downloaded it

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Am i missing somthing....

Yeah, but no but yeah but no....

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# 5 29-04-2004 , 08:04 PM

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you can download the PLE version

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# 6 29-04-2004 , 08:05 PM

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or maybe the upgrade even? who knows but Im sure mr iron_tick
wouldnt be as stupid as to advertise illegal software

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# 7 29-04-2004 , 08:08 PM

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AFAIK, Maya 6 PLE is not availble yet. However, Annual Maintenance subscribers can download Maya 6 direct from Alias.

Danny Ngan
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# 8 29-04-2004 , 08:26 PM

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Im have an Unlimited license with Full Annual Maintanance.

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# 9 29-04-2004 , 08:30 PM

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Lucky bastard. :p

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# 10 29-04-2004 , 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by iron_tick
Im have an Unlimited license with Full Annual Maintanance.

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damn... :p

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# 11 29-04-2004 , 09:07 PM

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heheh i said I'm instead of I... i need to unplug

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# 12 29-04-2004 , 09:18 PM

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very sweet dude!

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# 13 29-04-2004 , 09:25 PM

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soft selection tool is pretty interesting. It's not like the one in 3d studio. It's more like a gradiant from a vertice or point instead of a brush like operation. the advantage of this is that you can use scale and rotate on the area youve soft selected.

Hair is nice although i dont like how it has its own gravity built into it. a work around appears to be to convert it into poly's, maybe this will remove the gravity effect.

Deformers for particles is great. you can do the scene in Matrix revolutions where the squidies are coming into Zion with ease. twist them turn them whatever you want.\

Fluid effects cache is larger but havent messed with it yet. It appears that you can create your own temporary cache with more control over advanced features.