Saturday, 12 May 2012

Maya Modelling Tool Explanation 2

Right lets keep going with this!

 Cut Faces Tool:
This tool allows you to draw a line across the whole shape and slice through it, as shown below. This is useful if you want to separate two distinct sections of a model, cutting through all of the shape. It stops you from having to individually trace a line around it.



 Inter-active Split Tool: This tool allows you to draw an edge onto a face at any angle. This is good for fine, awkward details but as I have learned it can lead to problems later on with geometry, tri's and your UV Maps.





 Merge Vertices Tool: This allows you to highlight several verts and make them merge into a shared centre effectively taking 4 or 5 or more verts and making them into one.


These highlighted edges all from the merged vertex shown below. 3 into 1 in this instance.






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Robin Silcock

I am a Second Year Games Art and Design student at Norwich University of the Arts. After exploration of a number of roles in my first year, I am now looking to graduate as a 3D Artist with applicable skills in Maya, Mudbox, ZBrush and Photoshop. I understand that my skills in this field are not there yet - but I aim to achieve this goal through consistently working through the programs in my University and Personal Projects. I love to be busy - I have always had a lot of things on my plate since the age of 7 where I successfully balanced school with Ballet, Tap, Horse-Riding, French, Piano and Singing Lessons! In the same fashion, my university schedule is just as hectic and varied; I am a Peer Mentor to first year students, Student Rep for Second Year, and President of the Enterprise Society. Like I said, I love to be busy! I am a Games Hippie - so to speak - I believe that Games if designed and harnessed in the right way, will be able to help solve many of the global issues we have today - even if it starts off in a small way. Just look at the positive effects that Facebook and Twitter have already had... When navigating my blog;
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