Not out of the box. You need a plug-in for that. :) But people do have
tools already built that have predefined 3D shapes that you just click a
button and it creates the object for you. No scripts needed.
Eric T.
On 2/18/2015 10:43 AM, john clausing wrote:
sorry, i was unclear
i can make a curve circle, but it won't be "3d" like the sphere icon
null is in Softimage, unless i duplicate and rotate the duplicate 90
degrees
i can make a curve box, but i won't be "3d" like the box icon null is
in Softimage.......
not a huge deal, but if there's an easy way to replicate my Softimage
workflow without writing scripts.....i'd like to do that.
j
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:37 AM, Eric Thivierge
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by curves are 2d. You can draw curves to be
more than just flat shapes. If you look around for some rigging tools
(cgMonks comes to mind), there are some tools to create curve control
objects.
I saw this video yesterday that may help too in terms of creating
control objects that are made up of multiple curve shapes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0QOnLq93Z0
Eric T.
On 2/18/2015 10:31 AM, john clausing wrote:
hey y'all,
i typically (in Soft) set up a translational and rotational hierarchy
with nulls and make the icons look like a "box" and "sphere" with
Soft's ability to change the look of the nulls....scaling too. then,
i'm free to select these in any window and animate......
the closest analog to this in Maya seem to be either using primitive
volumes or curves. the problem being that primitive volumes render,
and curves are 2d. i could use "groups", but these are just nulls
without shape
i've asked on the Maya help group, and was asked...."why would you do
that". really wasn't very helpful.
does anyone have a simple solution in Maya to use my tried and true
workflow from Soft?
thanks guys,
john
