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johnnyMac
07-09-2002, 05:25 PM
alright, alright. so i have another question. so sue me.

i have created a character and want to project a shape onto his body. i know that you can project onto a nurbs surface but maya laughed at me when i tried to do that with a polygonal surface.

the reason i'm asking is that i know you can stencil one polygonal shape onto another in a different 3d program (which will remain nameless so not to offend die hard maya users).

dude.... sweet.
Evil Teddy
07-10-2002, 08:43 AM
Uh, sorry to break this to you, but Maya doesn't seem to be able to project a nurbs shape onto a polygon surface. I'm not positive, but Maya 3 Unlimited can't. I've tried. :thumbsdow

Both objects need to be nurbs. The same thing occurs when you work with booleans - Polygons only work with other polygons, nurbs only with nurbs.
johnnyMac
07-10-2002, 03:56 PM
suckis maximus. i guess i'll have to UV map the object unless someone wants to write a stencil mel script for me in the next 5 minutes.

anyone?

anyone?

beuler?

didnt think so. thanks though.
Darrell Croswell
07-11-2002, 12:15 AM
www.highend3d.com has a mel script for maya that is like a shrink wrap...it takes so major tweaking, but it does work...
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