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
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I'm having issues with an assignment that I'm working on, and the first time around it was going well, but then all of a sudden the barrel of the rifle exploded and I couldn't get it back. So, basically, I have been trying to redo it, and now I'm having a different issue. When I extrude it leaves the X while Im pulling back the face to create the inside barrel.
I haven't been able to NOT get an X everytime I do it.
Please help!
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Weird stuff in animation
Thanks for everyones' help. I do however have another question.
My character has his keysets in the animation and when I go through the timeframe, some things like his leg goes through his thigh and various issues like that. What can I do to avoid that? I know it's Maya calculating how to get to that next point, but I don't know how to fix that.
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Or just modify the motion curves. See here for an introduction: https://www.3dtutorialzone.com/tutorial?id=96I don't animate in Maya, but the easiest solution would probably be to create new keyframes in the problem spots and manually move the leg or whatever is causing the problem out of the way. It's common issue in all animation programs, the program just moves the objects in straight lines using math.. it doesn't know how it's supposed to move.
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Not always, you can get a fair amount of control with curves... change the tangents of the keyframes as NextDesign says to get better results and then add more keyframes where necessary to tweak it.the program just moves the objects in straight lines using math.. it doesn't know how it's supposed to move.
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