Dear visitors welcome to the part 2 of “Modeling a Temple in Maya”.  We are going to build a temple or a historical building in this tutorials sequel. So, you are going to learn architectural modeling in Maya. We have introduced some common and new techniques for modeling any building in Autodesk Maya. We have started last tutorial by creating temple’s doom and finished the tutorials by creating some upper story details. This temple is double story building. We have created pillars and roofs. In the second part we will create more details for ground floor and stairs and doors etc.

We are going to build ground floor so will start this part by creating poly box in the middle of our scene. We will adjust the cube by scaling under upper story. According to reference image we have to create shade of main door of temple. Create a poly cube again and adjust it by scaling and rotating at its place. You can use attribute editor for exact measurements. When you satisfied duplicate the shade cube and mirror it and merge top vertices using Merge option. After that we will create ground for temple by creating poly cube and scaling it. We will add some pillars in door of temple by creating poly cylinder. We will add details to our pillars. When we will satisfy we will duplicate them and arrange them in door area.
Let’s watch video for further options and details.

Dear user we are going to include a new video tutorial on Architectural Modeling. Every Autodesk Maya user is very fond of architectural modeling. Every step in modeling process has new aspects of joy. This tutorial is a project of constructing an imaginary enormous temple. We use Poly Meshes and primitives for construction of our temple. We will create simple shapes first and then we will give more details to our project. We will model a doom first and then we will go in details. For starting our project we will use Poly Sphere. Now we will cut the sphere from the center so it looks like a doom. For doing this job select the sphere and go to Edges mode. Then go to Front View panel our as you use to with. Select half of sphere’s edges and press dell button on keyboard. Now, you have a shape of doom. Go back to selection mode so that we will precede next steps. We will add more details to our doom. Go to shelve and click on Pipe poly mesh and drag a pipe around the doom. We will use same technique for cutting the pipe into half which we have used on sphere.

When you we will satisfied with detail of pipe we duplicate it and will try to fit duplicate copy of pipe by rotating on x axis. After we will select all objects and scale it in Y-axis. Now, we will add a base to doom by creating a Torus and fitting it around bottom area of doom using scale and rotate tool.

This video will make you clear about how to model Mud house using poly. This mud hut modeling is being performed under hand on exercise with poly modeling in Maya. Most of work is done by editing polygons and you can use thousand of ways to edit these polygons. It depend on you which kind of tool or command you use for your easiness. Sometimes the nature of work changes the mind of artist for using specific tools for specific tasks. In architectural modeling, there is no idea of free hand modeling like this one. Architectural modeling requires very accurate numeric values from primary structure diagram during the heights of the architectural model. This tutorial doesn’t cover architectural modeling, but some polygons are taken from architectural modeling in Maya. The whole modeling is basically designed with polygonal cube for walls and roofs.

Extrude and reset its faces and edges and with continuous process one can model easily complete mud hut modeling. Take a test render and view whether it is better or not. Assign hyper shade texture to the model individually and finally render the scene. This time it will create realistic and reasonable image of scene. Though there is not proper video about this concept but video link is given in the end of this text. So watch this video of poly modeling of mud hut in Maya.

This tutorial is about ancient door chain modeling in Maya with polygonal primitives. We are creating chain modeling for our premade model of mud hut. Select its walls and delete it, similarly select the roof and also delete it. Go to polygonal primitives and choose polygonal torus. In attribute editor, under shape nodes choose Input and place values for their attributes like radius, twist axis and subdivision height. Create duplicate copy of this torus and rotate it at 90 degree, now move it ahead to make primary shape for chain. Select both shape and apply Boolean function of polygon to make union of them. That’s it now we can create further chain sequence by copying primary setting. In this way we have made modeling of chain and now group them all by Ctrl+G. To make head and tail of chain, take polygonal cube and adjust its size and shape for head of chain.

Create a polygonal sphere and make a duplicate copy of it. Adjust their position on both sides of cube. Select them one after other and apply combine command. Now again select the cube then both spheres and apply Boolean function union. Select the head of modified cube and rotate it slightly. The real skill is to modify the head shape and it’ll definitely take enough time. Finally the chain will be modeled and now render the model. After this Tutorial you will be able to model and texture a very beautiful door chain of ancient age with Maya Polygon Modeling feature.

Here you are learning about simple terrain in Maya. You can create terrain modeling with several methods. But in this lesson we shall use wave deformer to create terrain modeling. We are performing this tutorial under polygonal modeling, although it is not directly applied on polygonal modeling but some of techniques are applied under polygonal modeling. In our previous tutorial we have already created many modeling tutorial of polygonal modeling. Here we shall also get help from polygonal modeling because we want to model terrain for game developing and film industry purpose with realistic look. The terrain modeling are actually mud made hut model, using continuous work on terrain we shall be able to create complete terrain modeling. In this tutorial you will at least find out that how we can utilize the wave deformer for modeling instead of an animation, because it’s assumed that deformity are only used in animation however it is not true.

There are many times when we need to use a deformer for modeling task. I will upload a tutorial very soon which will show how to use deformity in modeling and especially in organic modeling. With deformity we sometime model softer and smooth objects in contrast of NURBS or even Subdivisions. The following video tutorial is about modeling of village hut which is being created with simple technique of modeling. Create a plane as a base or ground for the house. Go to channel box and using input menu, add amplitude and wavelength effects in your scene. Once you have done the job then assign material for the selected ground. Polygonal modeling tools are easy to use instead of NURBS modeling tools. In next part we shall do more work on our scene.

This tutorial is about Architectural modeling in Maya, as many of you know that 3D studio max is also used for architectural modeling and it is thought more preferable than Maya or other software. The reason is that 3Ds max show the rendering process very clearly and realistic. In earlier, neither the Maya nor 3ds max was used for architectural modeling because at that time AutoCAD was one of such software application which fulfills the requirements easily. But now a day Maya is also in use widely for architectural modeling as well as for construction purpose and now it is thought similar to AutoCAD. It is general thought that Maya is just for game developing but the notion is totally wrong, you can use Maya widely in computer graphics. It is true that most of Civil engineers like some computer graphical skills for their architectural designs. And it’s also true that Architectural modeling with some 3D graphics software is most profitable job in engineering fields. Actually there are mainly 4 fundamental jobs in engineering field with some 3D software, Civil Engineering, Bio Medical Projects, Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering fields. Although 3D software is not limited with those merely, however there is unlimited exposure for a 3D Artist in Engineering field with some 3D Graphic software or especially with Maya, such as Geophysics, Geology, and Space Science and so on. For more detail, click on given link of architectural modeling category and get full information there.

Learn here on this site about modeling of tube well and you know we are going ahead in the depth of Maya because of every new tutorial. Although there is chances of some mistake because we are not professional yet but trying to work like a professional animator. We are teaching and transferring our knowledge of Maya to every common person free of cost. At this stage we are going to create tube well modeling with polygonal object. We are using polygonal tools just for practicing and we want to demonstrate the basic level of Maya. In next tutorial we shall work with advanced and complex modeling tutorial of Maya. Another thing that is necessary to mention here is the study of its dimension. Check the dimension level and accuracy after every affect. You can practice the polygonal tools by creating interesting object; it doesn’t matter about what is the purpose of that object. The tutorial is about modeling of tube well which is not accurate in display but it is created just for practice. The poly editing tools are used in this modeling which is not difficult to learn. You should have used them into many of creating object tutorials. If still they are incomprehensible then search on this site about learning of poly editing tools and you will definitely learn this concept. Though this tutorial has no video, therefore we discussed over this concept although the video link is given below and if you still want to view the video click on given link.

This tutorial demonstrates how to Model an Arch with Polygon’s feature of Maya.
Polygonal modeling is very common in every kind of modeling because mostly models are designed with the help of polygonal primitives. We have explained the concept of polygon modeling in our previous tutorial so I don’t think that here it is needed to define polygonal modeling. On the other sites you should have also read about 3d graphics designing with detail in Maya learning courses.
This tutorial defines the modeling of arch with free hand modeling technique without any pre-plan idea. This tutorial is here not for the regular modeling of arch but only discuss the way to create it with polygonal primitives. This technique is used for the modeling of construction medium in Maya as in engineering and construction field. The AutoCAD is used in this case as creating for map of your building. The building modeling is created in such way by following map and performance of Maya tools. The Boolean operation is thought important element in that modeling. The Boolean operation allows you to add, subtract the objects as well as we can unite and intersect them mutually for the cause of our model. Although Boolean functions are integrated in every 3d software but Maya is considered more appropriate to understand the geometry as compared to other 3d software.
The arch is known as basic architectural modeling for the learner of Maya. The video link is given below to make you ease in creating arch modeling in Maya at home.

This tutorial allows you to learn the Maya on higher level, because at this stage we are going to create model of window using all the basic tools at one place. If you have learned about Maya basic, then this tutorial is your next step to Maya learning. You have seen in video games and movies, the building are created for character living purpose. These buildings are designed under the Maya application. It is much easier to work in Maya if you are familiar to Maya basic tools. In this tutorial, you will learn about window modeling and then we shall go ahead step by step to the complex kind of modeling. For window modeling, we are required a block. Using transforming tools and extrude option we shall able to create the window model at whole. Make sure that main menu setting is as polygon. To create the design for window, select the face of the block and the go to front view port and add cut faces for the windows. Using extrude option squeeze them inward and then go to prospective viewport and you can see the effect clearly. Similarly select the centre of the building and create another window model by repeating same method. Select the upper side of the model and grab the blue and green arrow to give the roof actual shape. Similarly you can create other doors for whole building model

In this free tutorial video of 3d modeling and 3d animation Urdu/Hindi class about 3d texturing you will learn how to color separate faces and then model water pool of 3d model of a house in improved edition of the best 3d modeling and 3d animation software Maya 2011. In this free tutorial 3d texturing of a house you are going to learn coloring of door and windows of 3d house model in Maya 2011. This free tutorial video is actually a part of complete 3d modeling, texturing and rendering series for complete training watch other free tutorial videos of these series for modeling of every part individually.

In this modeling class we shall adopt the following steps and then texture and modeling a water pool:
First of all select the door and windows faces,
Go to Photoshop and create a color scheme for the door and window textures. For this purpose create new file then simply color with paint options in Photoshop, then select the ‘add noise’ clicking on noise options in the filter menu. Then save it with JPEG format.
Come back in Maya, right click on the selected faces and then choose the ‘assign favorite material’ then go to Lambert then choose color checker box and then browse the last saved file.
Then create ‘automatic mapping’ from ‘Create UVs’ then in the ‘color’ attribute editor choose the ‘place2dtexture’ and add values for the ‘Repeat UVs’ in both boxes.
To make file less heavy extrude the windows inward and then delete the inward extruded faces.
The move on to modeling pool,
Create a polygon plane the scale it up to the floor of the pool using scale tool this plane act as the water surface to move it up to water level in pool,
Right click selecting this face and then select the assign new material in the material attributes window click on ‘color’ select the ‘ocean shader’. Then attribute editor and then make the mesh transparent, refractive and for this purpose watch this free tutorial video.