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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engraving on the swords ?
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That sounds like a really cool Idea,, But I'm as Dumb as a Dog standing in the Middle of the road? I have no Idea how to do that.Originally posted by caligraphics
try to project a bump map on it .. or maybe a displacement map ..
If its not to much trouble could you go into a little more detail, I would be grateful. 
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bring that image into photoshop
make a layer in photoshop and draw the engravement in some fairly high resolution. Use a black clor to define the places the engravement should go down to the sword, white where it should go out of the sword.
make the background of the image grey RGB: 127, 127, 127
since the grey is rgb 255/2 = 127.5 ~ 127 it will be neither up (white = 255, 255, 255) or down (black = 0, 0, 0) so the grey will be neutral bump/displacement.
crop the image to fit the geometry
save as TIF (dont save the tiff with layers, since Maya does not understand TIFF files with layers)
in Maya create a shader with a bump or displacement map using the newly created TIFF image
Topics you could look into using the HELP files is :
Bump mapping
Displacement mapping
Creating projection
UV's
This should get you started.. and .. Good luck
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This helps me out a whole lot, again Thank you.
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if the finale Product wont show up in the object I need it to, isn’t that a waste of time, Im sorry if this post seems a little retarded to you, it's just that I have no clue on what Im doing
I'm trying to fine a Class In my part of town but with no luck
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By chance you Wouldn’t happend to live in California would ya? If so Where did you go to school? if you don't mine me asking
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If you follow what darkware said but use a displacement map instead of a bump map the actually profile of the geometery will be affected rather than just the normals (which is what bump mapping does). This might give you a better effect than just bumping it, but it will take longer to render.
Keep trying and dont give up you will get it eventually!
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