Push Modifier action in Maya

PaK

Okay, so this has been a problem for me today (first day with maya! w00t!) and I thought I'd share a particularly troublesome hurdle my co-worker Andrew helped me understand; Howto push modify in Maya.

In the modeling workflow:

1 -select the edit polygons menu

2 -select duplicate face (click the options square)

3 -ensure that you have the 'keep faces together' option tick box checked

4 -translate along the Z axis. If you hold down control you can fine-tune.


I used this technique to create shadow volumes. It looks like i;'ll be using maya exclusively soon. i accually welcome the transituion, because meklscript is more robust than maxscript according to my buddies in teh tools dept.

GL! and please do share techniques with me if you do alotta technical art....i have to make up 5 years of tech troubleshooting asap

-R

poopinmymouth

I'm pretty sure you don't even have to duplicate, there is a way to bring up the move along face (Z) option and just use it to do what you want.

It's been a while since I used maya, but I'm fairly certain that's possible.

PaK

You are right ben, it's part of the process because I'm using them as shadow volumes.

Good call, thx for pointing that out.

-R

vahl

select your model
select the vers you want to "push"
go in modify->transformation tools->move normal tool
move along the normal (yellow manipulator), that should make it you can also move along u and v