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Step 4 - Modeling NURBS Car Side Panels

In this free video tutorial you will learn modeling side panels of NRUBS car model such as doors, pillars, screens etc. After this tutorial you will be able to model a NRUBS car of your own in Maya.
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In this text and image tutorial you will learn Modeling side panels of a vehicle in Maya’s NURBS feature. You will use and learn new tools, commands, options and techniques that are mostly used in NURBS mechanical modeling in Maya. You will model doors, pillars, screens, and other parts of side panels with 2 dimensional CV curves and then you will make NRUBS surface by converting those 2 dimensional lines into 3 dimensional object.

Let’s start the lesson,

Note: If you don’t have your own file named fenders.mb you should download this file new because you will start part 4 of the lesson from the end of part 3.
  • Open the file fenders.mb

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  • Open up Layer Editor
  • Make visible all reference image files
  • Then go to the side view of the car image
  • Set the camera for creating a new CV curve profile
  • Switch off the X-Ray mode from Shading Menu of the camera menus

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  • Close the camera to you so that you can see closely the reference’s outline
  • Create a new layer and name it side_panels_curves, color it yellow
  • Close the layer editor
  • Switch on the snap to point option from status line modeling_nurbs_car_side_panels
  • Right click on the fender and choose control vertex from marking menu
  • Click on the first corner vertex
  • Switch of the snap to point option from status line
  • Start creating a new CV curve for bottom edge of the side panel
  • Follow the outline of image reference

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  • Draw as few CVs as you can
  • Continue drawing curve on the reference until you reach the rear wheel back
  • Stop clicking more CVs
  • End up by pressing Enter on keyboard
  • Save your file at this stage as side_panel.mb

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  • This is the time you need to rebuild your curve
  • But first check the number of spans in your curve
  • Press ctrl + A and open up Attribute Editor
  • See the number of spans under the NURBS curve History

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  • You have a large number of spans
  • Reduce it by rebuilding the curve
  • Go to Edit Curves menu option box
  • Reset all settings
  • Increase the number of spans to 12
  • You can see the curve has been changed and it is no more following the image reference
  • You will fix it manually by dragging CVs

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  • Drag and fix on proper place all of the CVs using move tool
  • When you are satisfied with modification of the curve
  • Go ahead and duplicate it
  • Move duplicated curve upwards until fit it on the middle line of the doors, see image below,

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  • Get scale tool and scale the curve uniformly until it is flat, see the image below,

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  • Right click on duplicate copy and get control vertex
  • Move vertices in all orthographic views, scale and rotate them if needed
  • Try to place the second curve on right beneath the door panes as you are seeing in above image
  • Let’s try to fix a little problem here,

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  • You do not need to extend the curve to rear shield
  • Right click on the curve and delete additional CVs
  • Place rest of the CVs on their proper place, follow the image below,

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P.T.O

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