From the course: Maya: Advanced Modeling
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Modeling tools: NURBS - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Advanced Modeling
Modeling tools: NURBS
- [Instructor] The next tool we're going to show you is actually going to be a NURBS tool for creating shapes along curves. So I have a NURBS circle and a curve drawn out by hand here in a spiral shape. I want to create a circular shape that is extruded along this particular spiral curve. I'll start by selecting the circle first then shift-selecting the curve, go to "surfaces", "extrude", and just open up the dialogue box to start with. I typically don't change these options, I'll change them after the fact, once the shape has been created. So, we're going to hit "apply", and we'll see a shape of a circular surface being extruded along the entire curve. Now, the nice part about this, is that we can come into the original curve and make changes to it live to the shape that's being created. The last is revolve. Let me hide this particular shape here. And what we have here is a curve that is actually created to look similar to a vase. And what I would like to do is just wrap this…
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