Modeling furby Faceplate

[technobox]

I'm new to maya 8 unlimited. I'm working with the furby tutorial and trying to create the faceplate. I draw my curve just fine and place the nurbs square where it's supposed to be but when I go to my extrude tool nothing happens my info bar at the bottom says press enter to select path but I followed selecting the square first then shift selecting the curve. Could someone please help me?

[laxman]

Go to the outliner, then make sure you select the group called nurbsSquare1, you will see that it consists of 4 different curves, so you have to make sure the entire group is selected, then shift select the curve and extrude.

[technobox]

thanks for the reply laxman. I have tried that though and it still won't extrude. I really don't know why it isn't extruding, but I'll keep truding until I have figured it out.

[laxman]

After you go to Surfaces->Extrude, post a screen shot of the setting you used.

[technobox]

Screen Shot (http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/6835/2001075825615357844_rs.jpg)

Here is the link for the screen shot you requested laxman. Thanks for the help.

[laxman]

Ok, maya 8 seems to have some problems extruding polygons along curves, also the trasfer UV tool seems to be broken. Try doing this:

open the script editor

Copy and paste this

extrude -ch true -rn false -po 0 -et 2 -ucp 1 -fpt 1 -upn 0 -rotation 0 -scale 1 -rsp 1 "topnurbsSquare1" "curve1" ;
extrude -ch true -rn false -po 0 -et 2 -ucp 1 -fpt 1 -upn 0 -rotation 0 -scale 1 -rsp 1 "leftnurbsSquare1" "curve1" ;
extrude -ch true -rn false -po 0 -et 2 -ucp 1 -fpt 1 -upn 0 -rotation 0 -scale 1 -rsp 1 "bottomnurbsSquare1" "curve1" ;
extrude -ch true -rn false -po 0 -et 2 -ucp 1 -fpt 1 -upn 0 -rotation 0 -scale 1 -rsp 1 "rightnurbsSquare1" "curve1" ;

make sure the names are correct, so each of the four curves making up the square and the curve you are extruding along.

Then press CTRL-Enter

That should work.

[technobox]

Thanks for the help laxman worked out good.. :yes

[laxman]

just out of curiosity, can you post the what the script editor said after you did the command using the GUI.