Anyone do anything with Maya. I've had the student version for a while, but I think I have to start from scratch before I can do any cool stuff with it.

 

No but I used Alias Studio Tools. What are the system requirements to run Maya?

 

We just started learning the program last week at school. Pretty good stuff... All I've done so far is a sea horse If you're coming from Max or Lightwave, Maya should only take about a week or so to get used to the interface.

I just got it today too

 

Windows: Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon processor

Macintosh: G4

512 Mbytes RAM

CD-ROM drive

Hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card

3-button mouse with mouse driver software

450 Mbytes of hard disk space

 

I suck at 3d and animation. I can't draw a line even if my life depended on it. So I am starting from the basics and learning the hard way.

 

Crap, I forgot I only have 2 buttons on my mouse. Imma need that middle mouse button

axeman: Do you have any tutorials or anyone guiding you? I'm about to register on the cgtalk.com board. Lots of neat stuff there. Also check out 3dtotal.com for easy tutorials. Haven't really done any tutorials on Maya though. I tried the Honda NSX tutorial on a Civic, but didn't turn out very well. Maybe I should stick to box modeling.

 

I was reading through the tutorial that came with the software. Don't really have time to play with it that much so its kinda not getting too much attention. Once school closes I'll be whoring the boards to find more tips.

 

Here's a very important tip I learned the hard way. When you hit the extrude button, it does an extrude even though you don't move it, so be VERY careful with that. The extrude will occur, even though the new vertices are in the same places as the old ones, and you'll be stuck with an extra set of points...NOT UNDOABLE if you proceed to model like this. Like today I had to start a whole spaceship from scratch because I extruded a whole bunch of polygons and didn't know it.

What's cool though is that you could delete vertices and edges without ruining the mesh, not like in Max. Bomb diggity.

 

Cool thanks... I think if I can do some basic models by the middle of summer I am gonna start doing some animations coz thats the stuff I really wanna do.

 

Ever thought about going to college for it?




























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