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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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Ramsay Tutorial

Hello, I cant get the checked background when i try and cylindrical UV the first index finger in the Ramsay character modeling tutorial! please can...

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by dixontho

27-04-2011|06:02 AM

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Mel Scripts

Hello all i know that maya has the option to smooth preview of a particular geometry in the current versions i.e 1 to 3 (for smoothing geometry)....

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by prithviraj.shet

27-04-2011|04:19 AM

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REAL FLOW PLUGING FOR MAYA 2010

Hi to all, I want to ask YOU guys if you have an Idea on how we can import Real flow stuff in Maya 2010 I found some plugins but they were for older...

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by Chirone

26-04-2011|10:39 PM

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Call of Duty VS Bad company | Page: 1 2

soo as the title says Call of Duty VS Bad company? what do you guys think? Personnaly i'm a Bad compant fan just because of the scale of the game and...

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by gtovey

26-04-2011|04:11 PM

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Interview for me - whoo hoo | Page: 1 2 3 4 5

OH MY GOD ... Finally a interview for a Job within the 3D world. Its just a runner job but still - It`s for the Mill in London. Have to phone...

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by jali

25-04-2011|07:41 PM

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water balloon

theres a water balloon preset in the ncloth presets but i cant get it too work at all any ideas??

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by daverave

25-04-2011|07:04 PM

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condensing frames

this is a simple problem i am simply trying to take a 1500 frame animation and speed it up by making it only 100 frames so i highlight the first...

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by murambi

25-04-2011|04:45 PM

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macs VS pcs?

At school i use a MAC to run maya and etc. But i am looking to buy it for use at home, i was wondering what i should get, A MAC or PC to run maya and...

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by Ponyboy

25-04-2011|12:06 AM

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Weird IK

I'm trying to animate a stick figure typing and Im using IK to animate the arms. It works fine for one arm but the other is doing some weird things...

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by elephantinc

23-04-2011|09:16 PM

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Making a hole | Page: 1 2

How do I create a hole or 'bore' through a surface. So you understand what it is I am trying to do, I am replicating my desk, including computer...

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by bullet1968

22-04-2011|11:41 PM

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Creating an "Anime Style" Character

Hi, I'm just new to Maya and I was just wondering if you can help me out. I've started to learn the basics, and I want to create an anime-style...

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by David

21-04-2011|05:48 PM

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Beginner Cars

Hey everyone. I just finished doing the Ferrari F430 tutorial and had a great time doing it. I really want to continue with modeling cars and I'm...

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by aagam

21-04-2011|03:15 PM

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Questions

Hello everyone, I would like to ask a question.. How you Judge that an Image is done in Maya software or Mental ray?;)

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by Ozgalis

21-04-2011|04:30 AM

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first time user of maya!

hello i've been using maya for about 2 weeks. i'm having a class in maya but the professor whom is teaching was having his own world... anyway. i...

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by David

20-04-2011|05:40 PM

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sorry I have not been around...

My mother has been very ill and I have been pre-occupied with a lot of RL things. Just wanted to pop in and let you all know I miss being active in...

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by Gen

20-04-2011|02:26 AM

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Can't Install Maya on MAC OS X

Please help. Every time I try to install Maya onto my mac it does not show up as i installed it. I get no error messages, it just will not let me...

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by elephantinc

19-04-2011|10:35 PM

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HELP!

I the PDF files for the mastering maya 2011 for the ndynamics section but i dont have the the actual scene files for it soo i cant follow the...

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by David

18-04-2011|05:06 PM

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Batch render multiple maya files using cmd

Does anyone have any idea about batch rendering a bunch of maya files kept in a folder using command prompt? I can render 1 file at a time using...

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by iiisam

18-04-2011|12:40 PM

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Strange Phone number

This sounds a bit odd, but when I got home today I saw that I had a missed phonecall...from America ( I live in the Netherlands, which makes it a bit...

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by BeAstMaSter

17-04-2011|10:24 PM

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Can't turn off UV texture mapping tool!!

Hi, I was playing around with UV Texture Mapping yesterday but have finished with it now and want to disable the tool! Every time I select an...

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by shifter47

17-04-2011|10:23 PM

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a little question on UV mapping

hey i was wondering, is there a way to tell which way round your UV map is, i mean if i have a simple cube and i perform an automatic map on it, is...

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by chilledoutredhead

17-04-2011|09:28 AM

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detail part of phone

Greetings everyone, Recently i doing video by using maya modeling phone then i want decompose every single part of phone. in order can show in video...

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by Nilla

17-04-2011|07:09 AM

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mia material mental ray problem

Hello. I have a little problem with mia meterial x. I'm using it on default setting, just color is changes. I'm using it on couple objects at the...

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by zeto88

16-04-2011|02:32 PM

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shaders and texture are not visible with Physical Sun & sky Enviroment

I have physical sun and sky environment, I created 2 object with texture and shader materials. but when I render the texture(bricks) and shader (...

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by dubai3d

15-04-2011|10:08 PM

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exporting skin weight maps

how do you export and import skin weight maps? I found the options in the edit smooth bind skin menu and I'm trying to do it, because I'm rigging a...

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by daverave

15-04-2011|08:18 PM

Replies: 1