Maya 7 Extruding

[Travis_hill]

Sorry I was looking around and didn't find any answers to my question so I'm going to ask here.

I have done a few things in Maya 8.5 the free edition they gave out a long time ago, I finally got a legal normal edition of maya 7 and everything is different. I was just wondering though, whenever I extrude faces on a Cylinder some of them get wierd faces and shading becomes a mess.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/zeonace/extrude_examp.jpg

I never had this problem in the 8.5 Demo, I could extrude things and the faces remained normal.

THanks for the help.

[nullfed]

It kind of looks like you don't have 'Keep Faces Together' ticked. In 8.5, its in the Edit Mesh menu. But I think it is somewhere else in Maya 7. Polygon menu perhaps?

[Ryno]

Modeling tools, Polygons > Tool Options > Keep Faces Together.

[Travis_hill]

Thanks I'll give that a shot!

[00Zero]

omg ryno, youre my hero. well, ill have to try it to see if it works. but damn, im using maya 7 at work and i have to go into tool settings and check "keep faces together" EVERY TIME i extrude faces or lines. SO ANNOYING

[Ryno]

No prob. For some reason, we've got clients using Maya 7 as well, so it was something I had to figure out too. Damn if stuff isn't all over the UI in those older versions of Maya. I know how to do about half the stuff in half the versions of Maya (which half varies, dependant on version), and you all just got lucky with that little tidbit. ;)

[00Zero]

maya 7 sucks so much. it seems like theres different preferences instead of just one. like youll edit preferences for a tool in one preference window and in another its totally conflicting and sometimes it uses one and sometimes the other.