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Making the rims

Making the rims - Maya Tutorial

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Making the rims

Now that we've got the tire done, let's move on to something even more challenging. Now, the rims look really complicated. However, there are a few things we can do to simplify it. Notice that the rims are a repeating pattern. All we have to do is make one section of the pattern, and then duplicate it to create the rest. Let's get down to business. All right, let's go into Maya. So, we've already got our tire in the scene, but let's go ahead and hide it. So, select it and hit Ctrl+H. To start the rims, we're going to make a polygon cylinder to begin with. So, let's go into our side view, so we can make sure we're making this exactly from the side, and just go ahead and make a cylinder, and I'm going to hold down X, so that we make sure we snap it right to the center of the grid. And it doesn't matter exactly how big we make it; we can always resize it to fit the tire later. And now, we need to set the height. We can't really see it in this view, so I'm just going to see all of our…

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