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ekoed
11-05-2006, 10:24 PM
I've purchased the DVD and I've been following along with building the jet bike, and I'm stuck on a part, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Im building the rear pipes, and I'm at the point where I need to shape them. When I select my CV's and try and move them up or down or out, it really distorts the Nurbs cylindar. Almost looks like a pipe with lumps instead of a smooth flowing bend. In the dvd, the authors pipes seem to shape nicely. I have checked to make sure I'm selecting all the CV's in the section, and I am.
I have included some links to screen shots of the right way, and then what mine looks like. Please help :)
right way (http://www.geocities.com/legaliyz/right.jpg)
mine, the wrong way (http://geocities.com/legaliyz/wrong.jpg)
It looks like your surface isn't smooth so start by hitting 3 on the keyboard. Also you may need to move the two rows on either side of the one you moved to get a smoother shape.
Let me know if that works.
Papa
masterme
11-07-2006, 10:43 AM
I have the same problem,and if you see the color is diferent too the wrong image have the tubes black,and the right image hace the tubes grey,i have this same problem,why the tubes are black???i already hit the 3key button.
Is there a option to change that.
Thanks in advance for all your suport.
ekoed
11-07-2006, 11:07 AM
Thanks for responding Papa. I took your advice, and made sure the smoothness setting was on 3, and I tried to select 2, and 3 set of vertices at a time to see if it would change, and it didn't. Still getting the black mishaped bends.
picture (http://www.geocities.com/legaliyz/bad.jpg)
ekoed
11-07-2006, 11:09 AM
I just noticed something after leaving this last post. When I right click to select vertices, my option is for "control vertices", not just vertices like usual. Could that be a problem?
chrisg
11-07-2006, 12:04 PM
Try doing Edit NURBS -> Rebuild Surfaces -> ■ then checking Keep: NumSpans then click Rebuild.
ekoed
11-07-2006, 02:54 PM
I tried that too, and still the same problem. thanks though.
take one of the pipes, export it and zip it. Go ahead and attach it to this thread and I'll look it over.
Papa
ekoed
11-07-2006, 05:11 PM
Thanks papa, here it is
steel87
11-07-2006, 06:42 PM
hi I had a quick look at your pipe and I didn't find anything wrong with it......do a render to see if it stays that way or you have by some reason changed a setting in maya but I can say that there is nothing wrong with your pipe
ekoed
11-07-2006, 08:26 PM
steel you're right. when i render the frame it looks fine. It's strange because I've completed almost the whole model (except the pipes) and in modeling view it all looks fine. Only these pipes are looking bad. Thanks for the tip.
TwinsenDude
11-07-2006, 08:30 PM
if it's looking different in the render, it probably has something to do with your render tesselation being fine but your in-view tesselation not. You can try in the attribute editor going down to tesselation and turning on "view render tesselation" so that it doesn't look ugly.
steel87
11-07-2006, 09:20 PM
no problem...always happy to help :wink:
don't forget if you run in some more problems like this, where your objects looks strange and you don't know why.....often it's only in modeling view, not in the render.
and papa sorry I stole your thunder but I wouldn't know this much if it haden't been thanks to you and everybody on DT.
keep up the good work ;)
ekoed
11-08-2006, 10:04 AM
I appreciate everyone's help. These DVD's have been well worth the purchase. The introduction to Maya video has taught me more in a few hours then the hundreds of dollars i spent in books. I love the idea behind this site, keep em coming!
No thunder stealing at all. Thanks for helping out. That is what I love about our community and group of artists who call DT home.
It looks like it could also be a graphics card issue.
ekoed
11-08-2006, 10:10 AM
UGH.. graphics card issue? :(
i paid like 700 bucks a year ago for an ati raedon 1800. i hope its not my card
AndNesJoe
11-10-2006, 11:33 AM
yeah i was about to say something about the graphics card..
masterme
11-10-2006, 01:54 PM
like i said i have the same problem and i tried all that have been said here and the problem stays,and i have a good display card.
buáááá i want the image like the tutorial.
laxman
11-10-2006, 05:14 PM
which card do you have? ATI cards are good, its just that their drivers suck. That might change though because ATI got sold to AMD. It used to be the 5th biggest technology company in canada I think:(
TwinsenDude
11-10-2006, 05:54 PM
If only they were compatible with Maya properly...