Maya 2016 tutorial : How to create twisted rope ( NEW )

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In this video I will revisit a video that I did in 2014 as the technique to create twisted rope has changed since Maya 2014
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[@n2square]

i love love love your videos. im currently at a parametric design unit at the AA and was asked to learn maya in a week time. So your videos really helped a lot. Sometimes its hard to connect different objects to the most basic shapes. But your videos showed me that. Thanks so much. Cannot explain my gratitude!

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Thank you so much Natasha, I really appreciate that :-) Best of luck with your studies

[@kathryn71]

Mike, another great tutorial, and particularly as it's an update. Maya changes often, and it puts the burden on educators to re-do tutorials, so thank you for the extra work on top of the regular work :) You have really great ideas for which objects to create as well.

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[@FoeThaLoveOfMoney13]

Thank you Mike! I've been waiting for this for a while! I'll try it when I come home. Thanks again!

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[@nicolehavelyana5265]

Mike you’re amazing! this video was clear, informative, and easy to follow along with. thank you for your help!

[@DerickWicks]

I wanted to send a Huge thanks to Mike for your amazing tutorials. I just wanted to point out something Mike did not cover. for this tutorial to work you need to go into your extrude settings and make polygons extrude along selected curve for this to work. Maya 2016 has this disabled natively. So Edit mesh extrude option box extrude along selected curve. Great tutorial Mike thanks so very much and please keep up the great work!

[@MHTutorials3D]

+Derick Wicks Thanks Derick !

[@tannedbatman5597]

Oh thanks buddy i was literaly going to comment about that.

[@acejs223]

You, sir, are a life saver!!!!! Thanks for all your videos, they are so helpful!!!!!

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this is awesome! I've been subbed to you since I started using maya and you are one of my favourite teachers by far, thank you for being you!

[@MHTutorials3D]

+Andrew Mohr Thank you Andrew, appreciate that

[@Katia-dh8hc]

Still works beautifully in 2019. thank you for the video. I am trying to create tree roots that are twisted around each other, and I didn't know how to create just 1 curve. I planned to make 1 curve, duplicate, and adjust. But your twist tool life and time saver!! thank you for adding info about it. also, special thanks for info where you add Twist option tool to Extude floating window. I didn't have It by default, but I do have it now ))) . This video is ROCK!

[@MHTutorials3D]

There is actually a new and updated video I posted on this

thanks for update,,, its crazy how often Maya changes its tiny features of any kind

[@KateQKing]

Thank you for your tutorial. You're very clear and easy to follow!

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Almost 800 :-)

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[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you !

[@sankojin]

Man thank you so much! I have been trying all day to do this by hand and I thought to my self its maya 2016 there has to be a button that does this for me. So thank you again.

[@MHTutorials3D]

You are very welcome

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Thanks man. You illuminated a couple of things for me in that tute that I never knew about 2016.

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[@SilverSkylark]

Perfect tutorial, thankyou so much!

[@DatAznGuy59]

Thanks a bunch for doing a video on this! Simple and easy to understand on how to do it.

[@MHTutorials3D]

You are very welcome

[@adrinshams8483]

Guys be sure select the damn curve and not the control points ,select the curve in the outliner then select polygon and it will change its pivot, Thank you for ur tutorials MaN

[@blah8934]

That's awesome! Thanks for the video using this in 2020!

[@rosszess589]

Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed videos! On to the soft!

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Thank you so much. This' very eazy to understand even i'm just a beginner.

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I was always fascinated by trap soft, been listening to trap long ti and i finally decided that i will try to make my own but i was so

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thank you very much that was quite helpful

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Thank you so much for an awesome and clear tutorial! this was really helpful.

[@MHTutorials3D]

And thank you for watching it !

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+3D Ruler Thank you

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Extremely helpful tutorial. Thank you :)

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Thanks Mike! love your tutorial :D

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very helpful for making wicks!! thank you

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Thank you for sharing this tutorial

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I'm right here before you answered :)) lol!!thank you very much,both your tut and you replied.

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+Thăng Trần Good

[@purparyumi-raimyura-2]

Yes this is very helpful. Evergreen!

[@harikrishnan_g]

Helped a lot. Thanks ♥

[@ropaeuropeaitalia]

tutorial exelente para maya 2016

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Hi Sir, love you so much. Thanks to share your knowledge.

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[@spagyeet]

thanks for the quick tutorial!

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That was fairly easy! 🙏🏽

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Thank you sir for helping me 🖤

[@nefwaenre]

Thank you! Can you also please teach us how to create intricate objects using cross section of an object and a curve? Or how to create a closed curve shape and then extruding it to create a polygon. I know this is done in Max, exists in Maya as well but Maya turns everything into nurbs surface.

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Hey Mike ! Could you make a tutorial of how to model a bird nest ? There's not a lot of tutorial about objets like nests...

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Thank you

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Appreciate the vid, sir, currently conceptualizing for my engineering presentation!

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+Anthony Mailly Cool !

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[@tommygunengineer9184]

Would love it if you could do a tutorial to animate those as well. I'm trying to get my head around animating fire tendrils. Should I simply create a few polygonal tendrils and add the fire to them or is there a way of twisting the actual fire itself?

[@Amonlith]

Still helpful in 2021 with maya 2021 :) thank you.

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Thank you Mike !

[@Ori___._]

I love you ♥ Its so simple

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Very welcome

[@yuanchenli1471]

First, Thanks a lot for the video. I think I found something interesting may help someone. If you select the face from hit "F11" and select them by box (which means not select one by one using click). It will not work. The only way you can successfully extrude is doing the 100% same steps like Mike's video showing. Hope the little tip can help someone like me. LOL

[@jench2588]

Thanks so much, finally got it to work. :)

[@MHTutorials3D]

Great

[@eduardoduenez2453]

Thank you so much!

[@umangkapoor165]

amazing real looking rope ... gr8 tutorial

[@MHTutorials3D]

+Umang Kapoor Thanks

[@bahribudak3350]

simple and valuable

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Excellent

[@EverydayVagaries]

Thank you!! You're a lifesaver :0

[@MHTutorials3D]

You are welcome

[@jozf8163]

Hi Mike, great video as always, thank you. How do I seperate and delete the curve without loosing the rope?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Delete the history of the object first

[@karljoyeux5148]

thx for this tutorial. Its awsome !

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks Karl :-)

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Appreciated

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Thanks man

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BRAVO! So pretty

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Perfect tutorial thanks

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You're welcome!

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[@MHTutorials3D]

That is pretty amazing !

[@ReallyRedPanda]

Thanks so much for the tutorial - really concise and clear! I did run into an issue with mine though - the rope twists are more dense in the middle and they loosen at both ends. I've played around with all the sliders and I've repeated the exercise from scratch in case I missed something. Can't figure it out so I'll work with what I have for now. Thanks you again, your free tutorials for the love of teaching and sharing are beyond awesome. :)

[@MHTutorials3D]

If you use the correct sliders and nothing else it should work. Try resetting the extrude tool

[@ReallyRedPanda]

I tried that yeah, I don't know why it didn't help. Even when I set the twists to over a thousand there's still some variation. Someone else in the comments had the same weird issue. I'll try it again later though. Thanks again!

[@biancaurholmen9944]

Im having the same problem. In places where there are more vertcies, it twists more, making it a very irregular rope

[@ReallyRedPanda]

Bianca Eilertsen In my case I'm using this rope model on a smaller scale, as bits of detail on a gold crown so consistency is important. My temporary solution was to delete where the twists start to become less tight and Mesh -> Fill Hole. But after messing around some more, I finally get what I was doing wrong. Notice how when Mike is drawing the curve, he's plotting his points evenly? That even distribution of points = even twists. So when I draw my own curve and leave a wider gap between points, the rope barely twists at all. The closer the points the twistier it is. I feel stupid for not realising this sooner. :P Some screenshots of an example rope and what it looks like as a curve vs what it looks like extruded (500 divisions, 5,000 twists): imgur.com/a/BBczr

[@biancaurholmen9944]

That does explain it. I wasn't evenly spacing it, either. Good to have a solution to this, thank you

[@crimsonBen]

ha! genius mike!! Thanks!

[@mdatiqmahmud-8621]

thanks sir🥰🥰

[@BigNorman14]

Thanks for the updated tutorial. It's a little hard to follow for beginners because you move rather quickly and use several hotkeys. It would make your tutorials much easier to follow if you could display keystrokes on-screen while recording. Just a suggestion, thanks again.

[@MHTutorials3D]

+BigNorman14 Thanks, I will keep that in mind !

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Thanks!

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still really helpful in 2021!

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Still really helpful in 2018!!!

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hi sir could you tell how do we bake this type of things into low poly

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when you have you curve done you cant escale it ? because my wire is too thick

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[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks

[@Carlos97x]

Still really helpful in 2019!!!

[@sirbacharach1]

I'm struggling to do this in 2019, it doesn't seem to stretch from one point to another when I click the extrude function, do you have any idea where I might be going wrong?

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WNice tutorialch version do you use to get all the setup and polyphonic softs?

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Nice video, thanks.

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Thank you

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its like connecting together ! after extruding and adding subdivisions .. from the start to the end its connecting together !!

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Thanks

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It still works in 2020!!!

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It works n it's awesome good gob

[@pokemonmanyou4239]

For some reason when I extruding the polygons overlap each other. Any advice?

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All of my computers got the softwares here. I first install them on virtual environnt to make sure they're not malware. So I can assure

[@brynnhowe6543]

The option of "Twist" doesn't appear on my polyExtrudeFace dropdown controls at 4:05

[@SeventeenDiamonds17]

so i wanted to make a straight rope and i didn't use the curve and just extrude straight away but the twist doesn't work. Did I do anything wrong?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Did you add subdivision ? ( it needs subdiv te bend )

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[@rodinclaus9380]

So how would you suggest UVing this for texture application? I've been unitizing all the UVs and then piecing them together via move and sew, but I feel like there's a faster trick, or even an extra step before the extrude that would make the whole thing easier.

[@MHTutorials3D]

It is basically just uving 4 cylinders