making lights

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.

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# 1 21-07-2008 , 03:42 AM

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hi all a im noob attempting to model my first car.......now im about to model the lights for my car but i have no idea how im going to make them transparent any ideas

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# 2 21-07-2008 , 09:36 AM

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The transparency attribute is for the material applied to the model, not the model itself, so when you make the glass material for the lights you can set its translucence to whatever you think works best. Play around with it a bit.

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# 3 21-07-2008 , 11:24 AM

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thanks alot i'll try and get back to you if i have any problems

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# 4 21-07-2008 , 11:38 AM

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I was just having problems with some lights myself -
https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=30416
You might find something interesting here. Hope it helps,
Benny

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