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Texturing

Ok so I get how to texture using bump mapping with photoshop. Thats easy enough. But in order to get wrinkles and more detailed bumping. Is it...

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by andymcbride

21-07-2009|11:50 AM

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Modeling a cave with full of stalactites | Page: 1 2 3

Hi! First of all, I want to thank everyone who helped me so far improving my maya skills. Great Forum. But now I have a new project: We are...

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by Chirone

20-07-2009|09:36 PM

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renderer (mental ray renderman)

So what is the preferred rendering engine? I have read around here that Render-Man is more efficient (if not then please correct me). Is that the...

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by Joopson

20-07-2009|05:10 PM

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Where is the Physical Memory Limit in Mental Ray?

Just can't see it! Am I going blind here or what? Can some one send me a Maya satnav............ Mr keeps saying it's run out of memory and aborts...

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by stretchandgrim

20-07-2009|08:20 AM

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Cutting Out A Door

Hello, I have just starting learning Maya (7.0) and I am quite enjoying it. I would like the learn the proper way of doing stuff so I have a...

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by 3ddon

20-07-2009|04:47 AM

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Hiding unused parts of the interface

Hi, I've noticed as I get better at Maya I usually only need about 10 things on the interface. Would hiding everything else speed things up very...

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by 3ddon

20-07-2009|03:41 AM

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looking for an interior airliner maya model

I'm trying to find something like a 747 interior that includes the cockpit and / or passenger compartment. I looked on turbosquid and some other...

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by dsantamonica

19-07-2009|05:07 AM

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shrinkwrap?

hi, is there polyShrinkWrap for Mac OS X or any similar plug-ins? I'm trying to model a sixpack with plastic shrinkwrap... something like this: ...

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by glounoulno

17-07-2009|01:36 PM

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Corner help on poly mesh

guys can you help me with this if possible, i am working on a model of a creature and the mouth has gone to pot when i jumped ahead of myself. trying...

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by iamcreasy

17-07-2009|01:36 PM

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Graph Editor on a Mac.....problems problems problems

Does anyone out there have any idea why my animation graph editor would be so darn slow to update, and also why certain parameters, like Ambient...

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by stretchandgrim

17-07-2009|11:54 AM

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Animation not working in Blitz3D

Hi, I tried animation for the first time a day or so ago and it didn't work. I set key 1 for the character facing right, and 2 for facing left. But...

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by fox95871

16-07-2009|09:41 PM

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Best advance UV mapping Tutorial

Hey guys, Anyone know where there advance tutorials for UVmapping? I've done a lot of basic stuff and I've even used HeadUV Layout for UV mapping. ...

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by Anhslaught

16-07-2009|08:36 PM

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PROBLEM WITH NCLOTH

I tried to apply NCloth to an item of clothing on an actual fully modeled character. I gave an item of clothing (which was polygons and nicely...

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by Bounce_X

16-07-2009|09:29 AM

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fur dilemma -using shave and haircut

I am getting this strange dark silhouette behind the ear, which appears to be the lower subd version, any ideas whats causing the problem?

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by ben hobden

15-07-2009|11:25 PM

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rendering an animation

I'm just learning how to render out an animation instead of stills. Is there a way to see the frames being built while MAYA is batch rendering?...

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by Chirone

15-07-2009|10:13 PM

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Moving tool

Why cant I move the faces in a smooth way like the second picture? http://www.picpanda.com/images/vwzaft092o5sul0e4nen_thumb.png...

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by NitroLiq

15-07-2009|10:08 PM

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How do I get my foot in the door?!

Hi all! I'm hoping you guys & gals can offer me some advice on my path to working in the game industry. :confused: I am from a traditional...

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by iamcreasy

15-07-2009|04:04 PM

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Plastercine 'art'

My wii looked boring, I was bored, I had plastercine so...... http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9760/wiio.th.jpg I also made this:...

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by elephantinc

15-07-2009|12:49 PM

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Maya to 3DS exporter

Has anyone found a Maya to 3DS exporter? I've looked on the net for an hour so far, and all I can find is a 3DS to Maya, which is the opposite of...

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by fox95871

14-07-2009|11:48 PM

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Deleting huge sections of a mesh

http://h1.ripway.com/fox95871/Deleting_huge_sections_of_a_mesh.JPG Hi, I got this city mesh online and 90 percent of it's polygons are in the...

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by fox95871

14-07-2009|11:45 PM

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rendering

Hey all this is my first question on SimplyMaya. I am working on a facial model in Maya and I wanna know how I can get the render window to be...

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by Chirone

14-07-2009|09:42 PM

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Lost Mental Ray

I've gone and lost Mental Ray and forgotten how to retrigger it to load into Maya. Can anyone remind me where the menu with all the initial load-in...

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by stretchandgrim

14-07-2009|09:17 AM

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Worms animation

Hi! On my current project I'm working on a worm of the videogame "worms". It is pretty basic and simple model, because I want step into...

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by Chirone

13-07-2009|09:35 PM