Transcription: Hello, and welcome to this 3D World tutorial. This is a tutorial that's meant to answer a question from a reader. And the question is regarding better ways to create sort of a thatched roof effect for cottages, or in this case, kind of like a seaside tiki bungalow kind of thing. My name is Eric Keller, and I'm going to take you through some of the ways that I tackled this problem using Maya, Maya 2012. I'm not going to use any plugins or anything fancy like that. We're just going to do plain vanilla Maya. So the goal of this is to add a nice looking thatched roof effect to the roof without hav ...