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Work In progress problem...Help

I currently after a lay off have found time to spend more time trying to uprade my skills from a nebie to newbie but a little better . While...

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by silverspawn

03-08-2009|12:22 PM

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learning maya

Hi all, Just want to know how you have all learnt maya. Have you just stucked to modelling to get perfection and then moved onto the rendering or...

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by maheshsubbiah

03-08-2009|05:18 AM

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Spline Cage *Need Advice*

Hey Guys Well latley I have changed my style of modelling from nurbs and polly to the spline cage method. This is because basically I always had...

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by honestdom

02-08-2009|08:07 PM

Replies: 5

game modeling with maya

hey there. i am starting a new project where i wanna build my own little 3d game. and this looks like the place where i can get some answers. is...

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by menkes

01-08-2009|01:18 AM

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Brilliant Lighting Tuts!

Check them out: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=5290014&postcount=72 Some brilliant info there!

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by Mayaniac

01-08-2009|01:13 AM

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Dominance War IV workflow OMG!

OMG I'm so inspired to get my work to next level... Just watch those videos buddys http://www.vimeo.com/5738519 http://www.vimeo.com/5734031 ...

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by Dango77

31-07-2009|11:30 PM

Replies: 7

Joint Orientations

Hi! I am at the chapter "Skeleton" at my maya book now and I am wondering what about this joint orientation??? I just don't understand what...

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by kimsay

31-07-2009|09:00 PM

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Can Maya 2008 Unlimited (win 32) run on my 64 bit machine?

I just got a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, but can the 32bit version of Maya 2008 run on it and well?... Thanks

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by bahearn81

31-07-2009|08:06 PM

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Those funny things made out of punctuation

Post your favorites, I just found this one today "Facepalm" (it looks better, for some reason, in the edit window... it gets widened when I post...

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by monkey99

31-07-2009|08:17 AM

Replies: 10

WavGen Terramapper Pro Software

Anyone had any experience using the WavGen Terramapper Pro Software with Maya? I need to render some large, high resolution images and am wanting to...

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by jerry.smeeth

30-07-2009|11:41 PM

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Website Design and Maya intergration

Hey Guys Just a quick question about what program is overall the best for Website design and has the ability to intergrate flash and maya in it...

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by jjdon

30-07-2009|08:26 PM

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my third try! :)

Hello, I have to do an Animation for an dentist and I have to build a 3 dimensional Mesh for that!Just like the the attached image. I googled it and...

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by Gen

30-07-2009|02:01 PM

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Connection Editor question....

I'm trying to connect the facingRatio of a samplerInfo node to the firstTerm of a condition node. How do I do this? The samplerInfo node isn't...

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by Gen

30-07-2009|01:50 PM

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lighting a scene

Hi i would really like some help and opinions on how best to light this scene?? i dont think im too bad at modelling, but an amazing model can still...

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by chilledoutredhead

30-07-2009|11:24 AM

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rendering high quality

Im not sure if anyone has this problem. But when I render at high quality at HD 720. It looks GREAT....but when i go to "maya/projects/default/images...

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by Gen

30-07-2009|01:22 AM

Replies: 11

maya & After Effects

I Want to import a maya scene into after effects...I know this has been done many times...I guess you bake the c=scene to the camera...However does...

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by ragecgi

29-07-2009|10:33 PM

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Reason why I cannot extrude

Just one another tutorial at the moment and for some obscure reason I hit a few butoons by accident and now when i use polyy primitives I am unable...

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by silverspawn

29-07-2009|03:33 PM

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Poll: Need opinions for new book

Hey, guys, in one of my chapters, I'm going to cover making a weapon. What would you guys most want to see as a book's lesson?

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by NitroLiq

29-07-2009|02:12 PM

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NCloth Balaclava

Hey guys, So im got an animation of a Robber,...trouble is i want a balaclava that feels real and not 'painted' to his face. I duped the head...

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by mr pix.

29-07-2009|10:47 AM

Replies: 4

selecting a control vertex

I am very new to Maya, and I have a question that I think is simple. I made a NURBS circle... Create>NURBS Primatives>circle It automatically...

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by honestdom

29-07-2009|05:00 AM

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nCloth settings

Hey, I am trying to simulate a slice of tomato draping over an object but whatever settings I use I always get very bad deformation at the bottom...

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by mr pix.

28-07-2009|09:47 PM

Replies: 2

WHERE'S MENTAL RAY GONE?

I seem to habe lost Mental Ray. It isn't coming up in the Render Using pop up menu in the render settings window. Anyone ever had this happen before?...

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by chilledoutredhead

28-07-2009|04:44 PM

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Connect U and V of mib_bump_basis question

Dear Mayapeeps, Would anyone be able to explain how I connect the U and V outputs of a mib_bump_basis node to Bump Effect U and V coordinates on a...

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by stretchandgrim

28-07-2009|03:16 PM

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Unknown Addition to Piece when Extrude

Hi all, I'm trying my hand at doing my own modeling after all this time. I'm trying to make a Tail Fin of a plane. I have a recess to put the Tail...

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by Archania

27-07-2009|09:23 PM

Replies: 4

Nickelodean's 3d Contest

so the other night I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Nick at Nite while trying to fall asleep and a commercial came on for a 3d contest, must...

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