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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Floor object in Maya?
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With Mental Ray physical sun and sky you get a horizon line and I believe vray has something similar.
You can use this in conjunction with a background material node which is invisible but displays shadows. You put this on a poly plane under the objects in your scene.
Otherwise, you are just going to have to make a very large poly plane.
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'Create' or you mean 'render'?Is there any way to create an infinite floor in Maya? either by rendering the grid or something similar?
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just render will do...dynamics collisions a plus'Create' or you mean 'render'?
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does it make the plane infinite?For collision you can make a plane, apply a background material to it. The plane with a background material will not render but will receive shadows and can be used with dynamics as a passive rigid body.
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Like I said in the earlier post there is no infinite plane in Maya. You can use the render horizon plus an invisible plane (with a background material on it under your scene objects to catch shadows and as a rigid body).does it make the plane infinite?
Otherwise you just have to use a very large plane.
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surely there must be a mel script solution
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I doubt you are the only one that has asked this, but we have given you suggestions that will simulate an infinite plane. You can use a poly plane and background material to BOTH catch shadows AND be used with dynamics as a rigid body. You then composite into a photo background plate.come on man..I thought Maya was 'infinitely customizable'...am I honestly the first to need an infinite floor which renders and does dynamics?
surely there must be a mel script solution
See this free Friday tutorial for tips...
https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34936
Perhaps if you explain exactly what you are trying to do that requires an infinite physical ground plane someone can give you a way to SIMULATE it. Because if you have to have an infinite physical ground plane I am afraid that is not available.
A possible solution is that you could script a plane with a background material to an objects (x,z) position such that the ground plane moves with the object and stays under it so you could essentially bounce a ball off to infinity (which would be the far clipping plane) with a finite ground plane that just moves in the (x,z) plane and stays under the moving ball..
So there may well be some creative way to accomplish what you need. But we need to know what you are trying to accomplish.
By the way any software that claims to have an infinite ground plane I can pretty much guarantee is using some similar trick to the one I describe above because computers have finite and discrete memory and so there is no such thing as "infinite".
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https://autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help...mber=d0e486653
For rendering, you can simulate an infinite plane by creating a thin cylinder instead.
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@ctbram Cinema 4D has managed to do it, it renders infinite and collides too, really useful
only problem is you can't add deformers like noise etc..
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