Maya modelling help!

davidlarock

Hi guys,
I came across this image on the web a few months ago. I was just wondering can anyone help me figure out how they produced this grate effect with a poly cylinder in Maya?



Thanks
David

passerby

place edge loops were you want grates to be, ring select all the edge that go to the center and do a small bevel on them.

loop selection all the edge loops you added in and do the same with a small bevel.

than start selecting faces in the right pattern, and extrude them down a bit and delete the faces.

SpeCter

For step one:
Doesn´t maya have controls for cap segments?That would be easier if he wants to have even distribution.

Daelus

What was said above, but there's a plugin that (among other things) will do essentially take your wireframe and turn it into a mesh pattern with one click. LINK

Canti

^ If anyone has problems with the file

Save it as "All files" Instead of ZIP and add .exe for the extension and it should work

sirenblue

@ SpeCter: Yeah, there is:



So that goes



It's going to leave a lot of tris though, so the cleanup later is going to take a bit...

malcolm

Or you could model one segment of the pie however you want, duplicate it and rotate it, then hit shift d a bunch of times. Take the number of subdivision you want in your pie and divide that by 360 to get the rotation value.