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Use the NURBS curve tools - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
Use the NURBS curve tools
- Now as I've mentioned before, the other way to create NURB surfaces is to use curves. Now, before we start creating surfaces, we need to first learn how to create curves. So we can do this in a couple of ways. First, we have a couple of surves here on our shelf, but let's take a look at the Create Menu so we can get a little more specific. Now, in the Create Menu, we do ave two types of curves under the NURBs Primitives, and probably the most important one is the circle. So if I select circle, and left-click and drag, you can see I can create a circle. And if I right-click over this, you can go into Control Vertex Mode, and as you can see, we have all of our control vertices, or CVs, and we can select these CVs and move them and manipulate the shape and size of this curve. Go back into Object Mode, you can see that we've now reshaped this. Now if we want to get a little bit more specific, we can draw our curves from scratch. And we can do this by going into the Create Menu and going…
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Understanding NURBS components4m 52s
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NURBS primitives6m 19s
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Use the NURBS curve tools8m 25s
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Create radial surfaces with Revolve5m 8s
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Use the NURBS Loft tool3m 10s
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Open and close curves and surfaces4m 33s
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Create shapes with the NURBS Planar action3m 16s
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Use the NURBS Extrude tool2m 56s
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