Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
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Basic Problem..extract tool
I'm working through a book for Maya. I'm at a point where I have a full body geometry, I want to select the faces of the hips and legs of the model, and I am supposed to use the extract tool to make the legs and hips a seperate mesh. I selected the faces, opened the tool, made sure the box is checked " seperate extracted faces" ( to make the extracted faces a new mesh according to help files ), I click extract and get an error messege saying, " No Object matches name:ChipOff1, the model turns from green highlight to white. the lower legs and hips part isnt a different mesh. (extract2.jpg)
If I click on the box to UNCHECK seperate extracted faces, the model shows the manipulation tool, I can go to inputs and change "keep faces together" from off to on, ( making the faces stay together?) but it is too still part of the torso. ( extract4.jpg) Any body have an idea what I'm doing wrong here? I can usually figure most everything out as I go, but this one is got me stuck so I thought I'd look for help. Could it be that at one point in the early stages of building the model, the legs and hips were "combined" to make the whole body one mesh? Any and all replies are appreciated..
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If you after you have performed the extract command, click the manipulator tool once (the lightblue circle above the red arrow in the top screenshot) and you can start moving the extracted geometry in world coords (origin axis X, Y, Z)
You may want right click the bottom geometry and select object mode.
Try it on a simple poly cube with 2 divisions in height and try extract the bottom half by selecting the faces you want to extract, apply extract, click manipulator once, you should now see the green and white wires, right click -> object mode, select the bottom object, move it out of the way.
Just to get a feel for the process.
Off topic if this is a game model you typically don't want to extract the bottom half at all. If you are about to UV you can work with selections, view selected, hide and other tricks for easier UV'ing rather than extracting geometry.
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Without detaching the pieces, and doing it as decribed in the original post
Yes, I could move each seperately, but they were still the same mesh.
No, this isnt a game model, just a model from a book to learn Maya's tools.. and no, not UV'ing it right now.
Thanks so much for the reply, I appreciate it!!
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"You may want right click the bottom geometry and select object mode."
On that instance of trying to use the tool, I couldnt right click the bottom half because every face was a seperate object after the extraction. So, only a single face at a time would become an object. But thanks...
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All you do is select the faces you want to seperate then run the script and it does what the name says. :attn:
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Any way.. thanks for the help and the script reference. Got one more newbi question. I put the script in the scripts folder, assuming that to use it I call it using the scripts editor? Or.. should I have put this into maybe, a shelf folder along with the .bmp icon that came with it to maybe create a button?? Not sure.. but thanks so much for the help.. I'll need alot more!!:headbang:
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