for some one that nver work on any form of graphic design , it sounded so simple to make but to do it it takes time and I had to go over this lesson more than five times in order to know every move you make . finally I did it it was a great success for me to comprehend and to under stand the work of the tools I need . Thank you again and again
Oh gosh, you are my saviour! I have so much trouble learning and memorizing all that Maya stuff. We just had our first lesson and everyone seems to do just great - except for me, I thought. But this tutorial is helping me a lot! I won much more confidence again. I guess, I was just too impatient as well...
I'm having an issue with my transform tools. When I try to move the edge loops (15:40), my move tool moves the entire house instead just the vertices. I'm thinking it's my tool setting (possibly soft selection), but I'm not sure what to change. Do you have suggestions for the settings of the tools?
I barely watch this video and I already know how to model like a champ! ty and c4d is good to start learning the basic's of modeling before entering other big programs!
Actually I'm into modeling for a while but still learned a thing or two from this video. You offer very clear explanation! Thank you! More tutorials please!! =D
Can someone help me? At 14:41 where you scale only part of the roof I add the edge loop as shown and press R but when I try to scale it, instead of only that area scaling the whole house changes scale with it. I'm using maya 2015 the student version if that makes any difference. I've followed the instructions exactly but I'm so confused
At 13:30, why not change the Insert Edge Loop Tool setting to Equal distance from edge? Saves time so you don't have to manually move the edges and vertices as you do at 15:30 :)
This isn't for beginners at all. I'm starting at level 0 of Maya and you're going way too fast, I didn't know how to do anything and you assumed we do, all I hear is *click click click click* and I had to pause like 400 times to see what you were actually doing.
This is amazing, thank you. I've just started using Maya in college, and was looking for some simple tutorial projects. This is perfect! Very easy to follow :)
Firstly, thank you so much for that video. it is applaudable to even make a such video to teach it. But you are telling it with details for easy understanding. Again thank you
I don't watch entire tutorial, but for now i can say - Great! Actually i don't know the difference betlince the cay board-Delete and the mouse-left click-Shift Delete Edges, so 10x you very much!! it is really helpful!
I really like your tutorial. It's very clear and the pacing is perfect for beginners. I bought a book on Maya and it's boring as hell, ugh. I'm subscribing to your channel and opening your videos on my iPad while modelling on my computer. It's like the best way to learn :D.
NovaGN get out of your edge loop tool. If it's creating new edge loops it's because your edge loop tool is still active. Select your move tool and you should then be able to move your loop. W to select move tool, hold right click in your viewfinder and drag to "edges". Now you can double click your loop to select the entire loop and be able to move it.
D BAH! Thank you. I thought I had to be in the edge loop tool and select the line before I moved it. I was like "Dafuq he is he making it move like that!?" Thanks so much for your help. I'm finishing this series one way or another, but I was stuck on this part.
It seems Maya 2015 likes to do things the other way around. (I have to pull towards the left to make the right extend) Also, after having deselected the top face and then selecting it again, I can't get it to pull everything down (just the top face). Is there a way to lower all faces at the top?
Hello, I'm using the MAYA 2016 to start this toturial and when I click in space don't pops up all tools like in the video and in minute 7.14 when I select the vertex of top and move up all the cube move up, you know what can I do to fix this two problems?
+Angela MacKenzie just in case for another beginner like me who have Maya 2015 and have the same question, the insert edge loop tool option can be found under Mesh Tools :)
For some reason when I'm adding the edge loops it's not smoothing the way yours does at the start, where you have 3 lines going up the front in the smooth view I have 4.
To do the top of the house, cant we just add a horizontal cylinder, cut it in half, put it on the cube, add more edges to it and adjust it accordingly?
How did he get to Record all of his maya window? With toolbars and Polygon Tab etc, I can only seem to get to record just the Square in the middle. Someone Please Help i need to figure it out for a project.
I ran into problems quite early. Smoothing does not work for me. It does absolutely nothing. I have tried selecting the cube and going via "Mesh" and the smoothing options, as you explained. However, nothing seems to work. Neither does the "3" hotkey. Do you have any suggestions as to why Smoothing doesn't work for me?
i have a problem, that after extrusion, I select the top face, as the instruction goes, but then I try to push the side walls to the middle, the whole house walls are moving, not only the top part of it. Is there sth wrong with my settings?
This is getting so frustrating. Every time i try to drag out a side in vertex mode it just moves it. And when I select the scale tool it increases the size of both sides (front and back for instance). How can I expand one side without having it affect the others?
Wow, making video tutorials should need a lot of patience and discernment ! I mean come on... this is a very professional introduction to Maya and half of the comments are stupid questions whose answer can be found easily by searching the menus or the Autodesk documentation, and the other half making fun of a verbal tic. Any way thank you for the free tutorial, it's at least as good as some class I used to attend on other topics. EDIT : Ok, I've seen the entire video and the others following (where "go ahead" intensifies - a lot). I don't know if it's just me but I think it's really hard to even finish the video. This is quite silly to have such competences but make videos barely not watchable because of this. Sometimes There are THREE "go ahead" before starting the real sentence ! I even wonder if it's a troll or something... I still learned a lot from this and thank you again but you really need to do something about that.
I got a pretty general question, how do you come up with something original? but in a cartoon style such as this? I really enjoy modeling cartoon style assets and hand painting cartoon style textures, but I find it extraordinarily difficult to find inspiration and or come up with what I want my object to look like, in the end I end up making it look as if it was built realistically and not with any real creativeness...
I came here to learn some basics about Maya 3d. What I did learn ist that you can say go ahead 120 times in 19 minutes. Impressive. (that's 6 times in a minute and every 10 seconds on average)
whats the name of that thing u use to render, because it looks like crap for me, and i know theres a thing u can download to better ur rendering results, so what is it?
Just in case anyone stumbles on the beginning cube step because it automatically creates a default cube without you being able to drag it, go to Create > Whatever Primitive > Turn on Interactive Creation
When I use the RMB menu I have a surface point feature where the face selector should be. I have no clue how to fix this or select faces without it. I am completely new to Maya 2015. Can someone help?
I Personally don't specialize in VFX or any simulations. However I have experience in using Maya's nParticle systems etc. From the top off my head without doing any research my best bet would be possibly looking into hair / fur systems and try creating grass that way but that might completely be a wrong lead so don't take my word for it. I know you can create grass fairly easily with default paint effects brushes in maya But i'm not sure how to preform any simulation on them easily.Also if you want to specialize in simulation / VFX stuff I highly recommend learning Houdini as-well as Maya. Let me know if you find anything! -Laz
Whenever I'm selecting "Insert Edge Loops" it works great until I have horizontal edges being created... Then, for some reason, my edge loop tool can no longer create vertical edges. It keeps creating horizontal edges. WHYYY and how do you fix that?
Press & hold spacebar > hotbox controls > window options > show pane menubars Not sure how you managed to get rid of the pane menu bar, since it should be enabled by default, but anyway, that's how you make it show back up.
"Show pane menubars" is already checked. Maybe my version is newer? For example, in the bar there's a picture of a Polygone with the corner cut off. I don't have those options. And like I said, renderer isn't there. I can't find that issue anywhere!
Maya LT cuts off a lot of features the normal Maya has. LT is used with the game engine to make games. So cloth sims and everything aren't used in LT. You're also only limited to 100,000 verts in LT. So original Maya is really where you wanna be at.
i have maya 2013 student version. i don't know the shortcut to smooth the polygon and when i do it from mesh menu the smooth is different and there are more edges.somebody know the reason? sorry about my English.
Hey there! Are you Australian? Also, I have never used Maya before, but I understood the program very well by just looking at it. Now I just have to learn what the buttons do, I am downloading Maya now the free 3 year trial thing, cause I am a student.
hit 1 on your keyboard to go back to normal view, ctrl z won't work because the smooth mesh preview doesn't actually affect your mesh so there's nothing to go back to, you just want to switch views.
for some one that nver work on any form of graphic design , it sounded so simple to make but to do it it takes time and I had to go over this lesson more than five times in order to know every move you make . finally I did it it was a great success for me to comprehend and to under stand the work of the tools I need . Thank you again and again
u are the best Maya tutor i have seen, even better than the Digital-Tutors People. I mean it. Thanks
Dude. This tutorial is really good. It is the first tutorial in a while that I am doing well in.
I'm gonna 'go ahead' and like this video.
Montague Monro I'm tempted to count :|
rionhunter Careful, that's how you get sucked in. Then there is no escape man.
***** Are you kidding me? You actually did it!? :O
rionhunter Go ahead and try yourself.
Montague Monro Read your comment before playing the video...You just ruined this tutorial for me.
Oh gosh, you are my saviour! I have so much trouble learning and memorizing all that Maya stuff. We just had our first lesson and everyone seems to do just great - except for me, I thought. But this tutorial is helping me a lot! I won much more confidence again. I guess, I was just too impatient as well...
I'm glad you are enjoying the series and that you found it helpful
Good Luck learning !
Thanks for Watching
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: The beginning settings are now under Windows > UI ELements
thank you! I was stuck on that!
I'm having an issue with my transform tools. When I try to move the edge loops (15:40), my move tool moves the entire house instead just the vertices. I'm thinking it's my tool setting (possibly soft selection), but I'm not sure what to change. Do you have suggestions for the settings of the tools?
I barely watch this video and I already know how to model like a champ! ty and c4d is good to start learning the basic's of modeling before entering other big programs!
Actually I'm into modeling for a while but still learned a thing or two from this video. You offer very clear explanation! Thank you! More tutorials please!! =D
Very 0
Can someone help me? At 14:41 where you scale only part of the roof I add the edge loop as shown and press R but when I try to scale it, instead of only that area scaling the whole house changes scale with it. I'm using maya 2015 the student version if that makes any difference. I've followed the instructions exactly but I'm so confused
Thank you! I am doing a hard 3D class and am having a hard time with Maya. This is a fun tutorial to help me build a neat project. :)
at 15:49 I try to move the vertices the he was moving to the right and the whole right side moves, not just the selected verities.
At 13:30, why not change the Insert Edge Loop Tool setting to Equal distance from edge? Saves time so you don't have to manually move the edges and vertices as you do at 15:30 :)
This isn't for beginners at all. I'm starting at level 0 of Maya and you're going way too fast, I didn't know how to do anything and you assumed we do, all I hear is *click click click click* and I had to pause like 400 times to see what you were actually doing.
YOU NEED TO HAVE A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF MAYA, HE SAID THAT AT THE BEGINNING.
Case Coal STILL, IT'S AIMED AT BEGINNERS. He taught me a lot but sometimes he's just like "okay do this this and voila, good result".
ChibiSugar It is not aimed at beginners it is aimed at people who are almost done being a beginner
Case Coal I thought the title was "Maya for *Beginners*", but oh well. And almost being done being a beginner is still a beginner
ChibiSugar Almost being done with beginner stuff is not beginner anymore. Yet it is still placed in the area of beginner.
I love the detail and explanation you go in to. Taking my learning forward much faster compared to over tutorials. Cheers!
Im currently developing a brilliant game and I found this series key in learning how to use maya. Thank you so much.
At 11:06 what did you do to add more than one edge loop to the box?
Is it better to use multicut tool or the insert edges tool? or are they actually the same thing?
I've been using blender for 2 years now and recently got maya 2015 and my head is gonna explode because those two are so different!
I feel your pain but once you get the hang of the controls and the shortcuts it gets pretty easy
We can use crease tool instead of adding edges to all the sides of the polygon??
This is amazing, thank you. I've just started using Maya in college, and was looking for some simple tutorial projects. This is perfect! Very easy to follow :)
Firstly, thank you so much for that video. it is applaudable to even make a such video to teach it. But you are telling it with details for easy understanding. Again thank you
which is the screen recorder you used i liked the tutorial very much!!!!!!!!!
I don't watch entire tutorial, but for now i can say - Great! Actually i don't know the difference betlince the cay board-Delete and the mouse-left click-Shift Delete Edges, so 10x you very much!! it is really helpful!
Great tutorial! It was easy to follow and I learned a lot. Definitely finishing this house and taking more!
I’ve learned more from this video than I have a year of 3D animation classes
I really like your tutorial. It's very clear and the pacing is perfect for beginners. I bought a book on Maya and it's boring as hell, ugh. I'm subscribing to your channel and opening your videos on my iPad while modelling on my computer. It's like the best way to learn :D.
16:50 how is he able to move the loop? All my Maya wants to seem to do is create a new one.
NovaGN get out of your edge loop tool. If it's creating new edge loops it's because your edge loop tool is still active. Select your move tool and you should then be able to move your loop. W to select move tool, hold right click in your viewfinder and drag to "edges". Now you can double click your loop to select the entire loop and be able to move it.
D BAH! Thank you. I thought I had to be in the edge loop tool and select the line before I moved it. I was like "Dafuq he is he making it move like that!?" Thanks so much for your help. I'm finishing this series one way or another, but I was stuck on this part.
NovaGN You're welcome, dude. Glad I could help. Keep at it
do i need to press alt+space to use the menu? with the spacebar i only get it visible
I use Maya LT,
Will it help??
when i select a polygon in maya it selects both top and bottom polygons automatically. i can't select just one polygon sometimes? do you why?
Really good explanation and very useful for all Maya modeling learners. Thank you so much for this tutorial. Please upload more tutorials like this.
i am super new, where is the scale button (command)?
It seems Maya 2015 likes to do things the other way around. (I have to pull towards the left to make the right extend) Also, after having deselected the top face and then selecting it again, I can't get it to pull everything down (just the top face). Is there a way to lower all faces at the top?
great tutorials... im taking a course of 3d modeling and real tiem graphics.. love it
Hello, I'm using the MAYA 2016 to start this toturial and when I click in space don't pops up all tools like in the video and in minute 7.14 when I select the vertex of top and move up all the cube move up, you know what can I do to fix this two problems?
hi, great tutorial.
btw, is there any reason you not using insert edge loop tool "equal distance from edge"?
how to set the default color of the objects? I am not getting the preferences option in maya 2016.
For some reason I don't have the arrow thingie you had there after you extruded. What am I missing?
Is there a way to select individual vortex or edge? sometimes when i click on an Edge or vertex , it also select the one right across to it. Thanks.
Make sure that soft selection is turned off.
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thanks, fixed!
I have maya 2015.... is that what you are using? when is clicked edit mesh the option panel thing was different
This one is maya 2013, You shouldn't have a problem following along tho!
Thanks for watching
+Angela MacKenzie just in case for another beginner like me who have Maya 2015 and have the same question, the insert edge loop tool option can be found under Mesh Tools :)
Do you also texture the house in this tutorial?
best tutorial for beginners, thank you so much.
how do i shift back and forth between smooth and rough versions of the model in maya?
are there any video tutorials to learn the basics when you download maya? i just want to sculpt things. like how they do it in sculptris.
+Sosaia Tuitupou knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/123112/files/maya-1-minute-videos-html.html
Thanks alot bro 😆
Much appreciated 😊
my edit mesh panel is not like your and i dont have that option,what sould i do?
For some reason when I'm adding the edge loops it's not smoothing the way yours does at the start, where you have 3 lines going up the front in the smooth view I have 4.
what pc configuration requires for running 3d software. doing like modeling, rendering,animation etc
17:50. How you move backside vertex in front view? In Maya 2017 it just moves the front vertex of the object. :( Great video by the way :)
I don't have any of those settings in my Edit Mesh drop down. Any ideas?
look under mesh tools it took me awhile but i found where they were haha
How do i scale two ends in mac computer like you did ??
what is the shortcut of smooth and d smooth (u said press free on your key board ) pls reply me
3 is smooth preview , 1 is undo smooth preview :)
"go ahead and"
To do the top of the house, cant we just add a horizontal cylinder, cut it in half, put it on the cube, add more edges to it and adjust it accordingly?
u can do this form many ways, even with NURBS.
But why not use a single mesh?
should i model in mudbox and import in maya? or model in maya?
is modeling in mudbox an option?!? lol. model in maya.
How did he get to Record all of his maya window? With toolbars and Polygon Tab etc, I can only seem to get to record just the Square in the middle. Someone Please Help i need to figure it out for a project.
Thank you! Very useful tutorial! Greetings from Brazil!
How do you get that menu to select vertex, edge, object?
Jesus I have no idea too... Autodesk website said can right click on the object to select vertex but I can't either... any solution?
please tell me how to bring the cube to grid
I ran into problems quite early.
Smoothing does not work for me. It does absolutely nothing. I have tried selecting the cube and going via "Mesh" and the smoothing options, as you explained. However, nothing seems to work. Neither does the "3" hotkey.
Do you have any suggestions as to why Smoothing doesn't work for me?
From where you get this model of house ?
i have a problem, that after extrusion, I select the top face, as the instruction goes, but then I try to push the side walls to the middle, the whole house walls are moving, not only the top part of it. Is there sth wrong with my settings?
what did he do at 10:30
how to your select ?.
great video so far thank you
How would you do an interior for the house?
This is getting so frustrating. Every time i try to drag out a side in vertex mode it just moves it. And when I select the scale tool it increases the size of both sides (front and back for instance). How can I expand one side without having it affect the others?
+Scorponizer I'm getting the same problem..ANYONE can help us? Thanks!
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+Scorponizer in selection mode > windows > settings / preference > tools setting > turn off soft select
I am having trouble finding the extrude tool for a gun I am making.. Please help?
When i move my vertexes, some of them move more than the others and this makes my shape look slanted on one side.
Ufff... guys how does he make the lines disappear when looking at the smooth preview? can't really see if the "edge is still really smooth" or not.
Hi, how did you switch from the object being smooth and then not smooth? clicking undo doesn't work for me
hit 6
Wow, making video tutorials should need a lot of patience and discernment ! I mean come on... this is a very professional introduction to Maya and half of the comments are stupid questions whose answer can be found easily by searching the menus or the Autodesk documentation, and the other half making fun of a verbal tic.
Any way thank you for the free tutorial, it's at least as good as some class I used to attend on other topics.
EDIT : Ok, I've seen the entire video and the others following (where "go ahead" intensifies - a lot). I don't know if it's just me but I think it's really hard to even finish the video. This is quite silly to have such competences but make videos barely not watchable because of this. Sometimes There are THREE "go ahead" before starting the real sentence ! I even wonder if it's a troll or something... I still learned a lot from this and thank you again but you really need to do something about that.
How you smoth with the keyboard.?
how do you rotate around the center and pan the screen?
+Christos Karamanos knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/123112/files/maya-1-minute-videos-html.html
Great tutorial
I got a pretty general question, how do you come up with something original? but in a cartoon style such as this? I really enjoy modeling cartoon style assets and hand painting cartoon style textures, but I find it extraordinarily difficult to find inspiration and or come up with what I want my object to look like, in the end I end up making it look as if it was built realistically and not with any real creativeness...
+Morning Starz A question for the philosophers
"The Cube has 4 faces." ok dude! :D you are an expert! XD
how do you even get the house there in the first place
I came here to learn some basics about Maya 3d.
What I did learn ist that you can say go ahead 120 times in 19 minutes.
Impressive.
(that's 6 times in a minute and every 10 seconds on average)
When i click extrude my cube just looks really weird and creates lots of spikes?
Can you send an image of your problem? its kinda hard to tell what you mean.
-Laz
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Edge3Dcgi Tutorials This happens as soon as i click extrude, after selecting the top face of the cube.
if you create a brand new cube, select top face and extrude does it do it ?
yup
. Thanks fo the tut brother........and yeah....did anybody count his go aheads? im gonna go ahead and count them..
It wasn't a problem for me until i read all the comments, now i can't stop focusing on that >.
I'm only five minuets in, and I Fuking Love you man!!
whats the name of that thing u use to render, because it looks like crap for me, and i know theres a thing u can download to better ur rendering results, so what is it?
Just in case anyone stumbles on the beginning cube step because it automatically creates a default cube without you being able to drag it, go to Create > Whatever Primitive > Turn on Interactive Creation
Oh my God thank you so much! That really helped me get the hang of it, haha.
how to scale with extrude 12:10
When it comes down to scaling the top half of the house, the base wants to scale with it, almost like a soft selection tool, how do I deactivate this?
Nick Colon Never mind, I figured it out. It indeed was the soft selection tool. Easy fix.
When I use the RMB menu I have a surface point feature where the face selector should be. I have no clue how to fix this or select faces without it. I am completely new to Maya 2015. Can someone help?
on the top i dont have mesh / edit mesh panel?
+alan yang nvm, i had to scroll down animation to polygon
what is the easiest way to create a field of tall grass that reacts to a off camera creature that will be walking through it ?
I Personally don't specialize in VFX or any simulations. However I have experience in using Maya's nParticle systems etc. From the top off my head without doing any research my best bet would be possibly looking into hair / fur systems and try creating grass that way but that might completely be a wrong lead so don't take my word for it. I know you can create grass fairly easily with default paint effects brushes in maya But i'm not sure how to preform any simulation on them easily.Also if you want to specialize in simulation / VFX stuff I highly recommend learning Houdini as-well as Maya.
Let me know if you find anything!
-Laz
is there any way to stylize the grass/hair strands to a more cartoony feel? And how do you use your own texture onto the hair?
Whenever I'm selecting "Insert Edge Loops" it works great until I have horizontal edges being created... Then, for some reason, my edge loop tool can no longer create vertical edges. It keeps creating horizontal edges. WHYYY and how do you fix that?
So "Renderer" is not displaying on my Panel menu. Also I don't have like half of the polygon options you have. How do I make them appear?
Press & hold spacebar > hotbox controls > window options > show pane menubars
Not sure how you managed to get rid of the pane menu bar, since it should be enabled by default, but anyway, that's how you make it show back up.
"Show pane menubars" is already checked. Maybe my version is newer? For example, in the bar there's a picture of a Polygone with the corner cut off. I don't have those options. And like I said, renderer isn't there. I can't find that issue anywhere!
***** Go to window > settings/preferences > preferences and under categories select interface then tick the box next to "In panels"
Sorry for this but that box is also ticked already. I wish I could provide a screen shot of what I'm seeing.
***** ok i give up, lol sorry for not being of much help, what version of maya are you using anyway?
where is the insert edge loop tool on the menu ?.
How to undo the smoothing tool in Maya 2017?
press 1 on keyboard :)
everything done sucsfully but holding spacebar doesnt show the any ony view option.
im using maya LT 2016
+ARUNAGIRI K I think maya LT does not support it :(
Maya LT cuts off a lot of features the normal Maya has. LT is used with the game engine to make games. So cloth sims and everything aren't used in LT. You're also only limited to 100,000 verts in LT. So original Maya is really where you wanna be at.
dont hold, tap the spacebar
The mesh deselects when I click on the Insert Edge Loop Tool in the 2015 version...
I have to actually click on the edge instead of on the face
i have maya 2013 student version.
i don't know the shortcut to smooth the polygon and when i do it from mesh menu
the smooth is different and there are more edges.somebody know the reason?
sorry about my English.
Hey there! Are you Australian? Also, I have never used Maya before, but I understood the program very well by just looking at it. Now I just have to learn what the buttons do, I am downloading Maya now the free 3 year trial thing, cause I am a student.
Hi, No, I live in the UK but originally I'm from Hungary. Good luck learning ! hope you find our content helpful.
please help. when I click extrude to add upper floor of house and when I pull it upwards the new floor doesn't have any face on the top?? I am stuck
Try re-assigning the lambert material to the object again and that should fix it.
-Laz
thank you I will try that when I get home. thanks for the help
i do not have all of the option in the edit mesh selection?
How do i get them ?
How can i "unsmooth" my house base? After i press 3 i cant go back to normal, even when pressing ctrl+z
hit 1 on your keyboard to go back to normal view, ctrl z won't work because the smooth mesh preview doesn't actually affect your mesh so there's nothing to go back to, you just want to switch views.
When I extrude the origin isn't in the centre of the face. How do I change that, omg.