[MAYA TuT] Guide 1: The Basics - How to Model

[Strupantwn]

This is the first Guide of my Guides to Maya. I will be making more in the later future explaining even more and advanced. For here this is the New People
Edition where it teaches you how to START modeling with Maya!

For this guide, try and make a Snowman using the Objects of maya and
learn to use the combine.

For Extrude, make a robot starting out with a cube and nothing else, keep
on extruding till you think the robot looks good.
Again, I ran out of space, I will explain the Face, Verts, and Edges in my next Guide. One more time, these 3 tools, you will be using it more than using anything else in Maya, VERY IMPORTANT tool.

[Knomez]

Very nice, thanks for makin that for me on AIM Quick

[unreal]

Very nice

I was waiting for something like this ;D

even if it's very basic :P

+rep!

[lorentzio]

hope you give more guides for custom weapon and armors
have always wanted to make custom models

[Strupantwn]

Will do lorentzio will do after I get maya working in my computer!
So I don't have to use my class's computer

[lorentzio]

allrigth

[Randie]

Very nice ^^ +Rep stru

[Hiselor]

im to retarded for maya, i even cant move a object, stupid menus open when i press w and want to drag is..

[Yes]

Isn't maya, like super expensive?

[pauk]

ok so i tryd around a bit and after to lnog i got this snowman called frosty )original uhh)¨
stil, i cant really do the shaping of the hands, but i´ll try some more out with the reobot

[Brandaho]

Ok so used the options you provided and some others i found out from the tut provided by them. I wasn't able to color mine i couldnt figure out how to do that. How do i do that and i also tried to save it and give it too a friend but he can't open it, we both have maya 8.5.

[pauk]

the learning video's will show you how to color (that is if downloaded the most expensive version), otherwise h're's what to do to color
right click on object go to assign new matterial and than phong
than at common material atributes double click color and you got it.

[Strupantwn]

Find hypershade, I forgot which option it is though, don't have Maya on this comp atm.

[Brandaho]

Ok thanks i got it to work. Although i combined the objects so i screwed up unless i can paint certain points of the objects other wise I'm gona re do it and use that.

[pauk]

btw on vimeo if you search maya tuts, there are a couple that might come handy