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Model a car tire

Model a car tire - Maya Tutorial

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Model a car tire

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at tires. We're going to build a car or a truck tire that has treads. Now a lot of people who model complex things such as this kind of wonder, how do you get the treads all the way around the tire? Well, it's pretty simple. What you do is you create one copy of that pattern and then you array it around the tire. So, let's go ahead and do that. So, I'm going to start off with a simple object. I'm going to start off with a polygon plane and I'm going to go over to my attribute editor and we need to make this a very specific size. So I'm going to kind of dial up my settings here, but what I really want is I want to make it, say, about 8 wide and about 10 high. Then I'm going to go ahead and move that back a little bit and up so we can see this. And then we also need to control the detail. Now this is how we are going to modeling our tread, so we need enough detail here, so I'm going to actually dial this up to…

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