Maya - Merge NURBS Curves Tutorial

A quick and easy way to combine multiple NURBS Curves into one object. Let me know what other things you want to see a tutorial on.

[yuuneeq]

Maya's process for making a simple square has the same energy as Carl Sagan telling you to make an entire universe at the beginning of a pie recipe.

[zaschawashington]

HI THIS IS THE BEST MAYA TUTORIAL I EVER SEEN SO FAR. It was short straight forward, and you described what you did. LOVE IT! THANKS.

[HazaChillzOut]

That was perfectly straight forward. Well done.

[chidede]

Makes no sense why Maya still doesn't have a simple tool to click on for this. After all these years....

[jeffyart]

I learned this in my rigging class and I lost the notes.
Thank you SO much for posting this. :)

[QaziTV]

Thank you so much! I’ve wondered how to do this for ages!

[mordicai]

This was exactly what I was looking for, thanks dude!

[jessfreemandesign]

Thanks so much for this! I'm learning rigging and this is super helpful for cleaning up my controllers 😊

[iamyaizv]

That helped me a lot!! Thank u so much!

[basemshenouda]

Great video, But how do I do the opposite XD ?
I have curves combined and I want to separate .
Thanks .

[aristotska]

is there any screen to create automatically ? maya is dumb when it comes to this

[mordecai]

Today I realized that Maya curve tool is super weak. I created a curve without closing it. then I mirrored it across axes and combined both curves. I now have curve with 2 pair of end points which I want to connect to each other and it's impossible to do it.

[music]

Thanks for the video...but the curves I merged are still detached to each other 😭

[prashantkambali]

Thank you so much. but how to unparent again?

[jeangannett]

Would you mind explaining what the -r and -s do? It worked for me, I am just curious so I know what's going on!

[mordicai]

The Maya docs are really shitty, it's up to us to teach each other new tricks.

[SethMeshkoDAnimationArtist]

Script!

selection = cmds.ls(selection = True)
print(selection)
selection = selection


newTransform = cmds.group(empty = True, world = True, name = 'temp_null')
selectionLength = len(selection)
if selectionLength >= 2:
for eachCurve in selection:
cmds.makeIdentity(eachCurve, apply = True, translate = True, rotate = True, scale = True)
shapeNode = cmds.listRelatives(eachCurve, children = True, shapes = True)
print(shapeNode)
cmds.parent(shapeNode, newTransform, shape = True, relative = True)
else:
print('Select at least two curves to combine')