Maya Tutorial: Creation Wires, Rope


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Creation of a rope – wire in Maya

Draw a curve. I’m with locators easier to move comfortably. (select edit point – point on curve)

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50 responses to “Maya Tutorial: Creation Wires, Rope”

  1. One reason extruding might now work, is the fact that the curve has an end and a start point. Too many times, I place the shape I extrude at the end and expect it to work… You need the shape that is being extruded at the start of the curve. Then select the shape, select the curve, extrude and then it works.

  2. Making ropes is amazingly easy. You dont even need a tutorial. The tricky part is to uv mapping and texturing… and thats the part that so many people want to find tutorials for. We already know how to make wires and ropes in maya, it is one of the most easiest things to do. We want to learn the hard stuff.

  3. making the curve is the hardest part, is there any way to make it easier? tying a knot with the curve is SO HARD. especially when your making medieval stuff that have ropes in everything and if you want to be realistic you need to make so many types of knots.

  4. this was super smart and I had never thought this through until now- but using CV curves reminds me of when I was a pastry chef; if you have a "stencil" or a certain cut out shape then extrude that along in any way you can create patterns that look completely different as you pull it along or twist it. Very similar to making spritz cookies or designing different flower shapes with a piper in baking. lol Does anyone have an idea of how to create a ribbed pattern like a pipe that you see connected to a washing machine though? I can't figure that one out

  5. Hi I am having some trouble with this function and wondering if you could help. I am using Maya 2014 and each time I hit extrude my object doesn't go in a line it just goes forward slightly making a dis-functional shape which looks very strange. I have tried freeze transformation and center pivot and different extrude values but the same thing keeps happening??   

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