A curve can be extruded to a surface in one click. My guess is that they might have needed to preprocess the AI curve to make it useful, or the extrusion was needed as a poly mesh, which in that case would have required the resulting surface to be converted.
-- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Open letter to Autodesk Extruding a curve in Maya requires scripting??? You have got to be kidding me. Morten Den 11. marts 2014 kl. 03:43 skrev Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: Very nice letter Alastair! Hard to write down any other words depecting eveyone's feeling like you did! On my side, i got some ideas i want to share with Autodesk. I already have a beer booked with Maurice Patel next week (very very very nice guy btw). I just want to share ideas with him and also want to listen to what the reality is to try to understand it better. I dont have outmost expectations other then meet with him for a nice chat but never knows what can come out of it. Just like the petition. At SHED, we are not a big Softimage studio in terms of income for AD. We are only 15 in the 3D dept on subscription. But we are a good Autodesk customer more because of our Flame, Smokes and Lustre suites. I wish our voice can be listened too like big gals like Glasswork wich i have so much respect for. So i will do my best to speak for everyone else here. Softimage helped us to astound our clients over the years. It's workflow and intuintivity is second to none. I can say it because we are also playing with Maya nowadays to feel the water.... meh :-/ It took me 4 hours to figure out how to extrude Adobe illustrator's curves into a capped mesh text model..... After 25 years of doing 3D since 3DS DOS V3...., it's a bit humiliating. You need a simple line of script to make it happen. Tutorial here to anyone interested into it: http://vimeo.com/37108656 ;-P Nonetheless, our heart and soul at SHED will always be with Soft...... and foremost, with it's passionate sharefull users we all have the chance to meet just here, ...in this incredible list. Will do my best! sly Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/> < http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/> > [cid:[email protected]] VFX Curriculum 03: Compositing Basics mail to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Mar 10, 2014, at 8:13 AM, Amaan Akram < [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Alastair, brilliant letter. Here's hoping other studio executives will chime in.
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