Interactive Creation

# 1 04-07-2014 , 01:50 AM

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Hi there,

I'm pretty new to Maya. I was wondering why I can't get the interactive creation tool to work the way the manual says.

I am reading the 2014 manual and working with Maya 2105, so perhaps that may explain it.

Basically my problem is that when I want to 'drag' to create divisions in my object, I get no result.

It seems like the tool has finished what it is doing by the time I drag the height for a simple cube (see attached image)

I figured out I can create divisions with the options for the polygon tools, which has got me the result I am after, but the Interactive part seems as though it would be quicker.

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# 2 04-07-2014 , 02:00 AM

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As far as I know there has never been a step 3 as shown above.

You drag out the base, then pull up to create the height and that is it. To add the divisions you go to the channel box, select the polyCube node and enter the subdivisions in in width, height, and depth.

You can highlight all three or any combination then holding the middle mouse button scrub left or right to increase or decrease them.

But I don't think it's ever been part of the interactive creation itself.

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# 3 04-07-2014 , 04:12 AM

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Interactive Creation

I am with Maya since around two years, after a short time I skipped the interactive creation and started creating "normal".
Also most of the tutorials I have watched and seen, most of the people do not work with the interactive option. But of course, this is personal preference, the software gives you the choice.
The other option beside cdbram's way; go to the menu under create and find the option box for the element you want to create. There you can adjust ahead of your creation how many devisions you want to do.

Hope it helps

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