POLYGON EXTRUSION AND EDITING/RENDERING TO QUICKTIME PRO EDITOR

*Note images and sequence excerpted from Maya Help Documentation

PART I. POLYGONS WITH EXTRUSION

I.A EXTRUDE A FACE

1. Create/Polygon Primitives/Plane (use the menu “box”)

2. Set subdivisions to 10 along width and 10 along height/Apply

3. Scale the surface

4. Right-click on the surface and select "face".

5. Use the select arrow to grab a face.

6. With the surface face still selected/pull out the Edit Polygons Menu

7. Select Edit Mesh/Extrude (use the menu “box”)

8. Put all settings to “0” except scale

9. Note: World coordinate space option is alternative to local object  coordinate space (see Local/World switch toggle icon, round target, that appears when selecting face).

( See also online help documentation  for tool)   

10. On Object select faces.

11. Apply individual extrude tool: extrude with arrow, scale face with box

I.B EXTRUDE A FACE ALONG A PATH CURVE

1. Select the edges/or faces you want to extrude and the curve you want to extrude along.

• Select a Face & Choose Edit Mesh > Extrude (to extrude a face)

• Select an Edge & Choose Edit Mesh > Extrude (to extrude an edge)

 2. To extrude along a curve:

• Choose Edit Mesh > Extrude along with its option toolbox.
• Turn on the Use selected curve for extrusion option.
• Control the # of subdivisions that you want to smooth the extrusion along the curve
• Set the Taper to 1 and othe values to 0
• Select the face and then a curve perpendicular to and at the center of the face.

• Click Extrude (to close dialog box) or Apply (to leave dialog box open.

PART II. SUBDIVIDE FACE

• Select the edges or faces you want to subdivide and choose Edit Mesh > Add Divisions
• Set Mode to triangles or quadrangles.
• Subdivision Level lets you subdivide multiple times. A value of 1 subdivides once. A value of 2 subdivides once and then subdivides each of the new faces again, thus yielding an exponential number of faces. Thus, a face converted to quadrangles subdivided 2 times yields 8 faces, and subdivided 3 times yields 16 faces and so on.
• Click Subdivide.
• Exponential option subdivides in  u and v direction for each face selected
• linear option allows you specify subdivisions in u and v direction

[Also, You can also select the polySubd node and change the subdivision values and modes in the channel box or attribute editor.]

PART III: CREATE SIMPLE ANIMATION

1. Add simple rgb color and transparency to objects.
2. Introduce shaders/applying Phong shader to object with primary colors.
3. Setup spheres with dynamics falling on deformed surface with gravity - dynamics module/Soft/Rigid Bodies/Create Active Rigid Body
4. Use animation module/create deformers/non-linear/bend on base surface for bending in xy plane and zy plane. Add pyramid object from shelf. Apply resistence to both - dynamics module/Soft/Rigid Bodies/Create Passive Rigid Body
5. Rendering a Key Frame Animation.

• Go Window/Rendering Editors/Render Settings or Select render globals icon.
• Go to Common TAB
• Set Filename prefix to name#.ext
• Set image format to jpg
• Set start frame to 1 and end frame to end of sequence (i.e., 48)
• Set image size to 640 x 480
• Go to Maya Software TAB
• Set quality to intermediate quality
• Go to raytracing tab to turn on check-box for raytracing.
• Go to File/Project/Edit Current menu & review or Edit the project folder to establish the "images" directory for individual rendered frames.
• Select Render/Render Current Frame tool.
• Make adjustments to lighting or any other adjustments needed.
• Render again/if satisfy choose the Render/ Batch Rendering or select the Batch render icon.

PART IV:  COMPILE FRAMES FROM ANIMATION IN QUICKTIME PRO

1. Open quicktime Pro.
   

• Do file/open image sequence
• Go to images folder and select first image.
• Save to quicktime move format

  2.    Add a second sequence in Quicktime Pro {for adding a second compiled movie file to the first one, we will cover this in the next workshop.

• Go to File/Project/Edit Current menu & review or Edit the project folder to establish the "images" directory for individual rendered frames.
• Select a different view.
• Batch render.
• Cut & Past within quicktime Pro