GI JOE II

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 complex objects.

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# 1 17-02-2003 , 01:54 AM

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hi again, after installing GI Joe, i've made some experiences that i want to share with you guys!
In tha first image, i've used the the fault sky and ground lights plus the default baker shadows! I think that image is cool, simple but cool user added image

! In the second one, i've modifyed the cylinder and the inner shadow is wrong user added image

, after this i've tryed to add a spotlight to fake sun light and add some extra shadows, but there are no shadows coming from that spotlight! How can i solve it?

THX in advance !!

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# 2 17-02-2003 , 02:27 AM

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If your spotlight's not casting shadows, the first thing I would check is that "use depth map shadows" is on in its attribute editor (or the channel box). BTW, Nice results with GI_Joe so far. Much better than I seem to get with it. You may also want to check out the thread below if you haven't seen it yet:

https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...&threadid=3533

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# 3 17-02-2003 , 03:29 PM

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i guess it got baked a bit too much.. heh

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# 4 17-02-2003 , 09:35 PM

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Hey, thx alot for the tips and the thread above, NitroLiq and tariqrf user added image

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# 5 17-02-2003 , 09:49 PM

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looks good! one sugestion, try turnning on the ground shadows, notice how there ins't any shadows from the ground on the objects. THanks,
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# 6 18-02-2003 , 03:28 AM

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Oh englar, this is nice! I wish i could get GIjoe working, but it keeps saying it cant find the file in a directory that does not exist (e:/vga <--- and on and on. Oh and also, if im right thats the hulks eye... so have you seen that trailer for "the hulk" - the movie? I cannot wait!

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# 7 18-02-2003 , 04:27 AM

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Did you open the GI_Joe.mel and edit line 57 to look something like this

C:/Program Files/AliasWavefront/Maya4.5/scripts/GIJoe.lights

where you installed your files? user added image

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# 8 18-02-2003 , 11:03 PM

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How can i edit line 57 in GI_Joe.mel? With Wordpad? And yee, it's Hulks eye user added image

, i've seen the trailer and there is some superb special effects! Can´t wait!

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# 9 18-02-2003 , 11:29 PM

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Yep, wordpad will work although it might be easier with a text editor that shows line numbers such as EditPlus or even an html editor like homesite or dreamweaver.

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# 10 18-02-2003 , 11:37 PM

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Thx very much for your fast reply user added image

, i've just downloded the EditPlus and ill see if i can do the change!

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# 11 18-02-2003 , 11:52 PM

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The cool thing about EditPlus is that it makes scripting in Maya a bit easier. If you go to: https://www.editplus.com/others.html and just do a search for "maya" on the page you'll find a mel support zip file. This allows EditPlus to recognize the .mel suffix....not to mention on the left-hand side gives a maya attribute word list for scripting. When I first came across it, I authored a post in the mel forum and included a screenshot. Here's the link to the thread if ya want to see what it looks like:

https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...&threadid=3470.

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