Wings to Maya

[Gary David Bouton]

Wings is getting to be fun! I did most of this piece in wings (except the box caps and the key latch), exported to Maya to texture, and then used RenderMan.

What a mixed media piece!

My Best,
Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

Thanks for the mini-tut, Paul...I'm sure Gidge will dig this, too.

OK, now I see that I should not skimp on the anchor points (nodes) to preserve a XARA shape.


My Best,
Gare

[ivan louette]

I always like your "mise en scène", Gary.
I am also trying Wings these times and I like it a lot, even if I am most impressed by Silo.

Kindly,
ivan

My mini-tutorials
botarosa

[Gary David Bouton]

Thanks for the info Gidget and Paul, and thanks for the kind words about the piece, folks.

Isn't there also another way to do the caps: boolean subtract a cube from another cube slightly offset in space, then boolean subtract the pattern...and then do the bevel?

I'm a tryin', I'm a tryin'

Gare

[gnurf]

...and if you want to do more exact editing you can always press the tab key after you select a command and enter a prefered value (i.e for move, intrude, bevel etc.)

-Paul

[gnurf]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gary David Bouton:

BTW, you notice the filagree work I did on the caps? Are you saying that this sort of stuff is too complex to extrude in Wings? Too many sub-paths.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

First, when you import an ai-file to Wings it will be automatically extruded, and all you have to do is to resize.

Second, the "problem" is that the nodes will be connected in quite a cluttered way (you try it and you'll see what I mean). This clutter is easier to clean up if you have fewer nodes. And I find the clutter bad when I try to use edge loops.

But on the other hand, if you intend to do no editing on the imported object there will hardly be any problems. So to conclude - it's not the amount of nodes/subpaths, but how the nodes are connected that is the (my) problem.

-Paul

[gidgit]

Hey don't worry Gare, it is me a fault here... I thought you was talking bout the box lid not the corners... hahaha... duh... hey both you guys have a working plan for this and all looks really cool... no crits or suggestins here eh, as this is thinking outside of the box

How bout a tut on this guys? Showing everything from Xara to bools, to texturing... this would be fantastic [thumbs up]

[Soquili]

Hi Gary,

I really like the way you view and portray the world. I always learn something from every image you post. You've taken a childhood memory and made it immortal in a graphic image.

Thank You.

Soquili

[Gary David Bouton]

Wings is getting to be fun! I did most of this piece in wings (except the box caps and the key latch), exported to Maya to texture, and then used RenderMan.

What a mixed media piece!

My Best,
Gare

[gidgit]

haha, no Gary, no bools in Wings...

though thinking about it, doing the bool subtraction route would probably be a couple of more moves in getting the second box positioned, not to mention having to create the second box it's self... yadayada... I thinx that simply boxing this box top out is the much easier of the two methods...