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On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:10 AM, Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk> wrote: > Since this is a place where the few remaining sane people in the world > reside, I would like to hear if anyone knows of a comprehensible tutorial > on the mess Maya calls Extrude? > > I have the (almost) simplest scenario which would take all of 10 seconds > to do in XSI, but our Maya artists can only do it after 10 minutes of > fiddling, and I seem unable to replicate it (the first one gave up(!)) > even though I wrote the procedure(!) down. > > I have a profile curve and a path curve. I want to extrude the profile > curve on the path curve, so the resulting geometry is positioned with the > path curve down the center spine. > > This seems like an unsurmountable task in Maya but I just saw it done. > What seems to be the case is you (really) have to oblige the Maya way of > doing things and yet, following my quickly scribbled notes, this still > fails. Either the resulting geometry is not positioned at the path or the > cross sections on the geometry is scewed, or both.... > > I could do it in XSI and be done i 2 minutes, but really want to learn to > use Maya for big and small things alike, and thinking many of you have come > across this scenario and found out the do's and dont's I was hoping some of > you could offer advice or point me to a comprehensible tutorial on the > subject. The Maya documentation is as usual almost of no use, and the > tutorials I have found don't really seem to cover this scenario - they are > usually quite spcific on one particular workflow which does not apply. > > Please, and thanks! > > Morten > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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