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How to create object with multiple holes/pipes?

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Sergio123Cabral

Sergio123Cabral
Posted: 28 December 2010 03:09 PM

Total Posts: 4
Joined: 28 December 2010 11:01 PM

Hi, I m trying to create a , lets say , sphere with multiple holes from surface to the center.
We can do it using boolean subtraction , and for many holes , we can mesh/combine many pipes as one polygon and execute boolean subtraction.
This is a problem if you have a lot of pipe/holes to subtract and it will take days os processing on a IMAC PRO 8 Giga , etc.

Some one have different approach ?
Thanks,,,

-- Sergio Brasil

-- Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti
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The fastest way to do this would be to use Autocad, but if I wanted to do this in Maya I would use Nurbs. I would write a script to create all of my pipes. The only reason for the script is I would rather change a few lines in my script rather than having recreate the model each time to get it right.

Author: RROCHS

Replied: 29 December 2010 11:57 PM

You might want to try using Hair (no dynamics) as guide lines to extrude you pipes. Just a thought.

Author: RROCHS

Replied: 29 December 2010 11:59 PM

vfxforge

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Posted: 02 January 2011 04:47 PM

Location: Brisbane
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displacement or normal maps , that way you can control the density by repeating the tiled map.

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Hi RROCHS,
Good idea to use Hair, it works well.

I think that we need more tools/scripts to help us in this symetrical procedures in Maya.

Best,

Author: Sergio123Cabral

Replied: 05 January 2011 01:28 AM

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