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# 1 31-08-2006 , 04:01 AM
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my two left feet (or boots in this case)

so I'm very new to Maya (with some 3d Studio Max experience)

I've modeled a boot (it's a start of a character... yes... I started with the boots)

problem is that it's made of many different parts, and I don't know how to group them together so that I can copy the left boot, mirror it, and make it a right boot.

I imagine that I would have to do so in any case to animate it, also.

I know it's a really basic question... but I'm lost.

any help, or pointers towards good tutorials would be very appreciated!!!

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# 2 31-08-2006 , 07:41 AM
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have you tried selecting all the parts in the boot and pressing CTRL+G ?

# 3 31-08-2006 , 08:02 AM
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to create a mirror image go to edit->duplicate then in the X scale (or whatever direction you want the mirror) change it to -1 then duplicate.

# 4 31-08-2006 , 05:53 PM
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aha!!

thank you both so much for replying!!!

ctrl- G is what I was missing!!!

I appreciate your help!

# 5 01-09-2006 , 12:39 AM
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Wow they look great btw, and I'm very jealous that you know how to model that well but dont know how to mirror.. I can mirror but my models look like boxes lol user added image

Please can you post some updates as you go on, would love to see this develop user added image

# 6 01-09-2006 , 03:27 AM
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They do look rather good! What settings did you use to smooth the model?

Please keep us updated!

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