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# 1 23-06-2013 , 12:53 AM
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airplane interior/exterior modeling

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I am relatively new to Maya, and would like some suggestions on how I would hollow out the interior of the airplane Ive been working on. Granted, I should have began with a polygon pipe from the beginning, I did not. I tried duplicating the body of the aircraft and just scaling it down, but realized I only made a solid cylinder inside another. The animation I am creating is a first-person perspective "tour" of this airplane, starting on the outside and moving into the airplane.....if only I had an inside. any suggestions would be appreciated! I have attached a screenshot of the model I am working with to show where I am at with this project.

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# 2 23-06-2013 , 11:08 AM
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Are you going to model the windows if so when you have done the windows using half of the plane select the faces of the tube and do a extrude inwards, you will have to delete some of the faces before you use the mirror tool............dave




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# 3 23-06-2013 , 01:49 PM
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Select the whole fuselage and do an extrude, then give a negative value for the thickness parameter. I think that should make a inward shell all through it. You may have to reverse the normals to get the inner faces facing inward. Sorry dave, don't know if I'm repeating what you said.

# 4 24-06-2013 , 03:01 AM
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Thank you, Ill give that a try as well as what Dave recommended for the windows.

# 5 24-06-2013 , 06:31 PM
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Good suggestion, strange outcome

I did try what you suggested, but once I extuded and set the thickness perameters, it turned into something that didnt even look like an airplane. I messed around with the sub-menu settigns for extrude with the same result. I even made sure to reverse the faces so they could be seen from the inside. Like I said, Im very new to modeling but I am determined to figure this out. Im hoping to show up for class tomorrow wth the airplane body hollowed out and ready to work on windows. Is there a simpler method to making this happen, or a newbie-proof method? user added image

Thank you!

# 6 25-06-2013 , 09:12 AM
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Sorry should have ready your post properly.

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