i need help with a modeling tool

# 1 23-08-2011 , 10:11 PM

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Hi everyone ^^

im new to maya and currently im following some tutorials.

everything went smooth until this came up!

https://imageshack.us/f/571/helpo.jpg/
Extrude face history

i would be very happy if someone could tell me how i can find it and what it does ^^

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# 2 23-08-2011 , 10:31 PM

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I think what you are looking for is the cannel box, look in the top right hand corner there should be a icon for it this will show the history for meshes selected (click on the extrude this will give you some usefull options, change twist, divisions).......dave

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# 3 23-08-2011 , 10:37 PM

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okay thanks ^^

but when i check the cannel box it only shows me my history it doesnt extrude anything or so user added image

https://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tut...deos/tut1.html
check this video at 5:21 he just choose extrude face history from a right click menu and suddenly the whole model looks alot different. its like it extrudes all the parts that have been extruded before ... or sometinhg.

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# 4 23-08-2011 , 10:43 PM

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I cannot load that link for some reason but yes you can go back to a extrude you did earlier and change some things.............dave

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# 5 23-08-2011 , 10:59 PM

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i kinda need to select all the extrudes and extrude them again,

before he uses the tool : https://imageshack.us/f/718/help1d.jpg/

here is the menu where he choose extrude face history again: https://imageshack.us/f/571/helpo.jpg/

and after he pressed it the model looks like this : https://imageshack.us/f/838/help2a.jpg/

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# 6 23-08-2011 , 11:22 PM

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There is no "Extrude Face History" menu item. You go to the channel box and select one of the past extrudes and then you can modify that past extrude. This is what Daverave is suggesting.

I watched the video and I do not know where he is getting that pop up menu. I do not believe it is part of any standard pop up menu in maya. At least I have never seen it.

It looks to me as though he made his own menu and added the "Delete type by History" command to it. That is not "Extrude face history". If you watch the video nothing changes when he selects it! It has no effect on any previous extrudes. In fact at the point he selects the "history" command (which I believe is just edit>delete by type>history", he has not done any extrudes for a very long time.

Yep I just watched it again and he is just adjusting verts and then deletes history and continues translating verts and faces.

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Last edited by ctbram; 23-08-2011 at 11:45 PM.

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