WEBVTT 00:02.450 --> 00:08.420 Hi and welcome to this updated lesson with Maya, twenty twenty 22 coming out just today, I wanted 00:08.420 --> 00:14.510 to go ahead and make an updated video that shows you an even better way to make cords, ropes, wires, 00:14.750 --> 00:15.850 all that kind of good stuff. 00:15.860 --> 00:19.690 They actually came up with a new method, which I want to share with you. 00:20.000 --> 00:24.950 So we're going to use the Ghostbuster example and replace the cord that we've previously made in the 00:24.950 --> 00:25.400 course. 00:26.090 --> 00:27.770 So I'm just going to select that geometry. 00:28.070 --> 00:35.630 And before I do delete it, I just wanted to mention notice the issue we had here previously using the 00:35.630 --> 00:37.700 extrusion method along a curve. 00:38.030 --> 00:43.010 You always had the problem of that extra little bit that you extruded from, and then also the possibility 00:43.010 --> 00:46.880 of flipping normals of the faces if you adjusted the curve later. 00:46.880 --> 00:50.950 And that seems to be pretty much resolved with this new method. 00:51.170 --> 00:52.910 So let's like that geometry and delete it. 00:52.910 --> 00:55.280 If you're following along with the course project files. 00:55.850 --> 00:57.380 And I'm going to like the curve. 00:57.380 --> 01:03.200 And kind of weirdly enough, this new feature is not in the mesh controls, it's actually under create. 01:04.560 --> 01:10.350 So got to create you have sweet mesh, I'd be curious to see if they leave this function, this operation 01:10.350 --> 01:13.340 here, because it seems a bit out of place to have on the menu. 01:13.350 --> 01:14.880 I feel like it's a mesh operation. 01:14.880 --> 01:22.290 But anyway, go to create sweet mash and boom, you have record no fussy extruding all along a curve 01:22.290 --> 01:23.250 and creating divisions. 01:23.490 --> 01:26.880 It's pretty smartly creates the geometry for us. 01:27.150 --> 01:33.120 And we have all these settings now in the Ashry Ed for this sweet MASH creator. 01:33.760 --> 01:35.250 So let's run through a few of these. 01:35.280 --> 01:42.660 Obviously first we can see that it's too big so we can go to these scale profile and the default profile 01:42.660 --> 01:44.640 that we have is a poly profile. 01:45.030 --> 01:50.820 And so we can just scale that profile down until we have the correct size for the cord that we want. 01:50.820 --> 01:55.890 So it's not intersecting the ground anymore, roughly in here somewhere. 01:56.160 --> 02:03.450 And then we can see if we turn on the wireframe on shaded that it's a bit rough, not just in the profile, 02:03.450 --> 02:05.430 but also in the along the length. 02:05.730 --> 02:12.780 So let's address both of those issues with the resolution of the curve or the mesh that the curves making 02:13.170 --> 02:19.260 so we can get to these mesh creator tab here and then we can increase the sides of the circle so that 02:19.260 --> 02:22.620 that is solving the profile issue, the resolution there. 02:22.920 --> 02:29.370 And then if we scroll down to the interpolation tab here, we have Moad precision on it. 02:29.370 --> 02:35.370 We can just increase that until we have enough subdivisions along our curve that it's no longer kind 02:35.370 --> 02:36.540 of low poly looking. 02:36.870 --> 02:39.270 So that's the main kind of points here. 02:39.270 --> 02:44.750 And to really get back to the one we had before, we can just click add caps and we're kind of done. 02:45.210 --> 02:55.080 So that's really a much more efficient way, I think, to create a curve or a rope than the extrusion 02:55.080 --> 02:57.030 method that we've learned previously. 02:57.330 --> 03:01.800 Let's take this a little bit further, though, because there are some really cool options here to go 03:01.800 --> 03:03.840 even further than just a simple chord here. 03:04.170 --> 03:09.840 Let's say we want a braided rope or we wanted to create the interior wires of of a cord. 03:10.110 --> 03:12.150 We could click the distribute button here. 03:12.150 --> 03:17.340 And now we have the option to add the number of instances. 03:17.340 --> 03:23.190 Let's say let's imagine this is the interior of a cord and we want to wire splaying. 03:23.310 --> 03:24.240 This would be the way to do that. 03:24.240 --> 03:27.990 Or if we wanted a braided rope, we could do that very easily as well. 03:28.290 --> 03:32.940 All we have to do to get the braided effect is go down to the transformation options here and then just 03:32.940 --> 03:34.440 increase the twist of this. 03:34.770 --> 03:39.960 And of course, we can take that past the soft limiter of two and type in a value that we want. 03:40.410 --> 03:44.430 Of course, with ninety, we can see we've kind of broken the model and it's intersecting itself. 03:44.670 --> 03:51.780 So that just gave us a better range to now adjust this down to something that makes sense for the subdivisions 03:51.780 --> 03:54.150 we have and the length of the cord that we have here. 03:54.540 --> 03:58.620 So this is a really easy way to create a braided rope. 03:58.620 --> 04:00.690 I can also turn off the wire frames. 04:00.690 --> 04:01.500 You can kind of see that. 04:01.920 --> 04:05.790 Now, the other thing we're left with is the fact that now these are kind of separated from one another. 04:05.820 --> 04:08.490 We can click on the sweet mesh creator to get back to the menu. 04:08.490 --> 04:11.040 We can basically adjust to values. 04:11.310 --> 04:13.530 One is the scale of the instances. 04:13.530 --> 04:17.720 So now that they start to kind of intersect each other and connect with each other. 04:18.180 --> 04:22.200 The other issue, though, if you want to compensate for the fact that you've scaled everything up, 04:22.410 --> 04:28.680 you'd have to go into the scale profile and then bring that down so we can do that to maintain the overall 04:28.860 --> 04:32.880 profile of these instances at the same kind of scale. 04:32.880 --> 04:37.440 So you'd have to kind of tweak these together to make sure that you're overall not scaling everything 04:37.440 --> 04:38.040 too much. 04:38.310 --> 04:40.650 And so those are the two things you'd want to adjust. 04:40.950 --> 04:46.170 Obviously, there's these other kind of distribution types that you can experiment with to get different 04:46.170 --> 04:47.190 types of effects. 04:47.430 --> 04:54.900 The other noteworthy adjustments here you can make is a really cool taper here that I think would be 04:54.900 --> 05:00.660 useful for hair if you're doing some kind of who knows what. 05:01.230 --> 05:05.520 But it gives you a lot more control than previously where you'd have to. 05:05.520 --> 05:12.420 I don't even really know how you do this previously, but this is a really cool effect, something that's 05:12.420 --> 05:14.550 kind of small to improve upon. 05:14.550 --> 05:16.080 But they really went far with it. 05:16.080 --> 05:19.500 Now, the other suite profiles are pretty self-explanatory. 05:19.830 --> 05:23.790 They just give you different modes to adjust the profile that it's using. 05:24.150 --> 05:28.800 You know, something even like a rectangle could be turned into a sphere just by adjusting the corner 05:28.800 --> 05:29.910 radius, for example. 05:30.330 --> 05:35.430 But so and this is a road if we turn off distribute, we could see and turn off the twist. 05:35.940 --> 05:43.920 We could see this could be something just to create a path or a road very easily using the line method 05:43.920 --> 05:44.250 here. 05:44.520 --> 05:49.950 And then, of course, we have an arc which is just like a semicircle very quickly, easily to do. 05:50.190 --> 05:54.750 And then we have a wave, which would be, you know, maybe the gutter of a sidewalk or something. 05:55.050 --> 06:01.140 But it's pretty nice that they give you these most common scenarios here just at the top menu. 06:01.140 --> 06:03.930 And it's very kind of user friendly showing. 06:04.000 --> 06:08.260 These icons like this now, the final one I wanted to touch on was custom, and it was a bit finicky 06:08.260 --> 06:10.140 when I'm when I'm playing with it, let me show you. 06:10.690 --> 06:14.380 Obviously, it's going to take a custom curve that we define. 06:14.620 --> 06:23.520 If I just draw one out, let's just say something like this and I go back to the mesh and the sweet 06:23.530 --> 06:29.800 mesh creator, I can choose this custom and it will pop up this new window that asked me to select what 06:29.800 --> 06:31.660 curve I want to use as the profile. 06:32.110 --> 06:33.100 Once that's selected. 06:33.110 --> 06:36.550 Let me turn back on the wireframe on Shaded to show you kind of what I mean. 06:37.240 --> 06:40.870 The profile that I drew was the Kubic interpellation. 06:40.880 --> 06:42.190 So it's it's smooth. 06:42.460 --> 06:46.590 But if you look at the profile that we're getting from this, it's very rough. 06:47.500 --> 06:50.860 Let me just close this down so you can see the profile of this thing. 06:51.340 --> 06:53.680 You can see it's pretty low poly. 06:54.070 --> 07:00.910 And the only way I found that that would be improved is it appears that this option is actually controlled 07:01.150 --> 07:04.480 by the relative scale of the profile, which is kind of surprising. 07:04.480 --> 07:08.310 It wouldn't just take an absolute kind of interpolation of this. 07:08.620 --> 07:14.770 So what I mean is because this is relatively small, I guess, for how wherever it's determining that 07:14.770 --> 07:19.330 scale factor is, if we scale this up at the control vertex level. 07:19.330 --> 07:24.520 So if I just take these and I scale these up, you can see it starts to add more subdivisions. 07:24.790 --> 07:26.920 So now it gets to be a lot smoother. 07:26.930 --> 07:29.890 So it's based on the relative scale. 07:30.490 --> 07:33.520 And, you know, maybe it's the relative to the length of the curve. 07:33.520 --> 07:35.940 It's being swept down. 07:35.970 --> 07:37.000 I'm not really sure. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.120 But just know if you're not getting the right result for the custom. 07:40.300 --> 07:46.120 It's probably because the scale of the control vertices again, I'm not scaling this at the object level. 07:46.450 --> 07:49.450 I'm scaling this at the control vertex. 07:49.450 --> 07:52.720 Although you can see if I scale this up at the object level, it's not changing at all. 07:52.720 --> 07:57.490 You've got to do it and go into actually edit the control vertices and scale those up. 07:57.790 --> 08:01.030 So that's kind of one finicky thing I noticed experimenting with this. 08:01.210 --> 08:05.680 And then again, obviously the way to counteract this is it's scale of the entire thing. 08:05.680 --> 08:10.930 If we just want to scale that down, we can just scale it down through these attributes here and get 08:10.930 --> 08:12.730 back down to the size that we wanted. 08:13.060 --> 08:15.790 But that's something noteworthy to look out for. 08:15.970 --> 08:18.370 If you want to use a custom effect, I think this would be great. 08:18.370 --> 08:23.090 Like if you're doing, you know, corner trim in a room and you're modeling a room or something, the 08:23.090 --> 08:29.410 a great way to get custom trim suite along a curve instead of using the old extrude method. 08:29.830 --> 08:32.680 So I'm really excited to use this in my next project. 08:32.680 --> 08:38.280 So hopefully this is helpful for you and you get some cool ideas to use at your own projects. 08:38.290 --> 08:40.450 Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson.