Added: 19 August, 2007
Group: Maya
Create hookah model, render and texture complete tutorial
Author: TechTut.com
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Create hookah like on the photo

Indian or not, pipe’s a source of pleasure among the young. See how it’s made and holdover the simple steps in making it.


In this lesson we will create a hookah such on this photo.

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Now when we created a new project import image plane for front camera:
(View->Image Plane->Import Image) and select hookah

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It will bring a picture in front camera:

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Now when it's selected press Ctrl+a to view Attribute editor for this item,
input in field alpha gain 0.5 (it's for better grid viewing),
and lower in Placement Extras at Center there three fields, input in third -30, at all must be 0 0 -30

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Start to make a curve for a base (Select CV curve tool with option 3Cubic degree)
In corner put 2 or 3 points to get it sharper, but not point on point, just close to it.

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Begin to tweak a curve
It must be something like this (I'm not made any special just moved verities):

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Curve :

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Select move tool (hit w) then hold d (moving pivot point mode) and c (snap to curves) key
and click middle mouse button on curve, drag pivot point into lower part of curve.

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Create revolve from this curve (select curve and then Surfaces->Revolve)with default options

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Select image plane and adjust center X, input 0.2 and image plane will be at center of our base.
Now create with same way upper part of hookah
I made rough curve and then tweak point and also move pivot point at end of curve's lower part:

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Now create revolve for this curve (Surface->Revolve)
On this picture you can see that base is smaller than upper part.

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So adjusting base - select all control vertices on base curve
but without two that stays on left and just move them a little to the right.

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