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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Problem; duplicating an instance
I'm trying to model half of a head and decided to duplicate it on the opposite side to make it whole. I went to Edit>Duplicate Special (options), set the X scale to -1 to have an opposite effect, Geometry as Instance and Group Under as Parent. Whenever I push the Apply or the Duplicate Special button, it never does anything. I also tried selecting all of the vertices but that also failed... Here's a desktop image if people have to know the absolute details.
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Once you have the pivot point in the center you can then do your duplicate operation.
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With your pivot point on the center line of the grid duplicate the geometry usind ctrl + D, then in the channel box (top right of the UI ) scale the geometry -1 in the X to mirror it over , then under mesh hit combine and finally select the center vertices and merge them individually.
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