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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Head modelling, joining patches.
https://coldfusion.art.msstate.edu/ca...ead/NURBS.html
What I can't understand is the author's patch diagram of HIS Setup.
He has patches that only partially share edges yet the isoparms all line up, and how does he join these patches when they don't have the same uv span.
For example: the lower jaw patch (5 isos) and the patch below the eye(4 isos).
Also, I can't figure out how he gets the lower jaw patch isoparms to all meet at the mouth instead of spanning the surface.
It looks like a good technique for head modelling.
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Edit> Oh, I misunderstood. I see what you're saying now.
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for example his eye patch has a total of six spans in the V direction, so when he stitch it to the big mouth surface he tells the stich node where to start and where to end the stitch.
Like ice Queen says, Nurbs are indded fustrating, but they yield more realistic results and deformations than poly or subD, most studios when they use close shot, they use NURBS replica of actors... except for GOLLUM:bow: his modeling had some great artists working on it. maybe they converted to sub-D... i don't really know.
but to answer your Q's, i was a bit confused too when i saw the authors's wires, until i tried it, i even modified it a bit and ended up with even less patches and more continuous flow, so i had no stiching (or very little)where the surface would deform when talking etc...
https://www.geocities.com/vladimirjp/patchHead.html
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How do you match the mouth surface and the three surfaces that connect to it? When I use align surfaces to join at the shared edge, it causes problems as the mouth surfaces uses the whole edge whereas the other surfaces only uses parts of the edge?Originally posted by vladimirjp
when u stitch u can specify where you want the iso to connect.
for example his eye patch has a total of six spans in the V direction, so when he stitch it to the big mouth surface he tells the stich node where to start and where to end the stitch.
https://www.geocities.com/vladimirjp/patchHead.html
And how did you get the isoparms in the mouth surface to all converge at the mouth?
BTW, Did you just create that head since reading my original post? It looks great!
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1) rebuilt surface ; rebuilt first 0 -1 and check "keepCV" so u do not lose shape, then rebuilt 0-numSpans; check off keep CV
2)attach surfaces;
3)detatch surfaces (at same ISO where they were attached
4)in the stitch setting always stich to the surface u do not want to move, by that i mean, set the options to tangent edge 1 to 1 edge 2 to 0, this way everything is stitched to the first edged
5)DO not use the align surface tool...
6)before u start patching it is best to create a good network of patches that gives maximum details and least geometry...
i wish i was better @ explaining things.. sory if this is a bit confusing.
but feel free to pm or email me any Qs or IRC #cgtalk; my screen name is vladimir
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I'm looking at a few different methods:
https://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/peter/model2.3d
In figure 7-31, how do you create a cross section curve in Maya.
In figure 7-33, the author says "Once the spline cage is patched, the form becomes a solid polygon model". How do patch this cage?
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the best polygon tutorial to me is Dave K. 's tutorial
https://www.thehobbitguy.com/tutorial...ing/index.html
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