Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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importing from Illustrator
The left side is how it imports, the right side is how it looks with smooth preview, which if I could get it to look like that than I'd be good. I've tried closing the curve, rebuilding the curve, inserting knots...all to no avail, if anyone can bail me out here I'd be forever grateful! Thanks!
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675
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I put a video project together with my brother and I needed a funny intro so I took the Warner Brother logo and had it come forward until it appeared to hit the camera. The W teeters and then flips down so it becomes an M and the sash swirls in and around and read "Mulawa Bros. Production" then the whole thing falls apart and drops out of frame making lots of clanking noises. I could not find the avi but here is some of the test renders and configurations.
I made the letters and the frame using illustrator art and I believe the version of maya at the time was 8.5. I am looking at the files trying to remember the process. I'll post back soon.
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1. You want to use surfaces>bevel plus
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How to handle the bug that can come up when using bevel and bevel plus...
If you get this error
// Error: Value is out of range: 3 //
when trying to open surfaces>bevel plus options or you get all scrambled popup window for bevel options then go to create>text options and reset it and also go to create>adobe illustrator... options and reset it and things will work again.
I have been having this problem since Maya 8 and the only solutions were to delete my maya folder and let it get regenerated (losing all my custom settings in the process) or manually editing the user preferences file and deleting all lines with anything to do with bevel and bevel plus! What a pain!
Well when I went into maya and tried to import illustrator curves and run a bevel plus this came up again and in researching it I finally found the work around of just reseting those options.
This shows how focused autodesk and alias were on customer issues! This has been around since maya 8! and it's now maya 2010! When will this bug get fixed? Maya 2099? Which if autodesk does not get on the ball will be Modo 2099 and the problem will have never existed! lol
Anyway I hope this gets you back on track and if you still can't get it figured out just post a message and I will record an mp4 video for you.
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Bevel plus can generate both nurbs or polygon objects in a single step. The bottom is the letter curves.
The middle is the polygon version unsmoothed. You should never need to smooth objects created this way as you can control the tessellation of the model and ramp it up so it always appears smooth from what ever your camera distance is.
The top is the nurb version that gets generated and it is always smoothed. If you look closely it appears more tessellated then the poly version that is because with nurbs the default hardware tessellation is very low. That being said I usually have to play with the render tessellation to get nurbs looking correct. That is why I usually always generate polys. I rarely need to change the settings from default.
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I quickly did a model just by using your template and using the create poly tool to outline the outer part of the d. then again on the inner circle of the d. I extruded both. Then I made an edge connecting the top rounded edge of the d to the bottom rounded edge of the d. Then I used the boolean difference tool to subtrace the extruded circle from the d. Now my d has a hole in it and the hole is connected to the outer edge. I cleaned up the verts and did a bevel. Then I added a few anchor edgeloops and smoothed. It only took me about 5 minutes to do this. I'm pretty fast at modeling but it's a pretty easy way to do it I think.
Edit: I didn't spend time making it perfect but for your model, you should make it all quads before smoothing so you have a nice clean mesh.
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I think the problem comes back to my curve being jagged to start with?
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