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Carpool lane violation

Hey does anyone know how much a carpool violation is?? I just got one and im worked up. AH! And does this count on your record?? There was...

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by stwert

09-12-2014|02:28 PM

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Nurbs curves?

So I'm trying my hand at modeling a vehicle with nurbs curves and I'm having an issue with my image planes. I attached a snip and if you look in the...

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by daverave

05-12-2014|12:40 AM

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"Motion tracking" a static scene

Usually for this, I'd pan the camera all over the place at the start, just for the tracking data. The scene itself will be static. I need to create...

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by xgabrielx

04-12-2014|10:08 PM

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Dynamics. A few questions

I've spent a long time messing around making models, but never really explored Mayas other capabilities. I'm thinking of a scene, that I really don't...

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by xgabrielx

01-12-2014|04:35 PM

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by David

01-12-2014|02:35 PM

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Can someone point me to a fake-hair tutorial, please?

I am modeling a horse, and I want to make the tail and mane out of planes (and then turn the planes into cloth). I'm planning on using bump maps +...

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by judithjenny

29-11-2014|12:04 PM

Replies: 4

help with rendering.

hi, just a quick q. how to get matte/plastic (dont knw what it's called) effect in maya?...coz i love watching 'beware the batman' and 'starwars...

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by Skalman

24-11-2014|09:31 PM

Replies: 6

UV Unwrap issues with Imported IGES HELPPPP

Hi All, I'm attempting to do an unwrap of a surface that I brought in from another application (Rhino), anddddd as I've heard, it is a...

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by daverave

24-11-2014|07:37 PM

Replies: 3

Viewport bugged

Hello I have a problem with the viewport, it was all normal at first but one day it bugged out. The "camera cube" is all black now and the grid...

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by Magicool

23-11-2014|12:10 AM

Replies: 6

Merge edge question.

I seem to not be able to merge the edges in the picture below. I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it for me. The mesh is all one...

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by daverave

22-11-2014|02:54 PM

Replies: 1

Basic Blend shapes problem

I need help again. I'm trying to get my head around basic blend shaping. I get the following issue. I make a basic sphere, duplicate it...

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by meterizos

21-11-2014|07:09 AM

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Animating camera effects

I'm trying to create a dolly zoom type of effect in Maya. I've messed around with changing the focal length/etc and keying it, but it doesn't seem to...

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by shaboody

20-11-2014|05:18 AM

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Blinking Peashooter

Hi, so i have made this pea shooter and its almost completely rigged and ready to do but i still need to get the eyes to blink and give it some...

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by daverave

19-11-2014|12:18 AM

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School of fish no direction

Hi guys Have an animated fish model i want to run round a motion path. Have used particles to make a school of fish using instancing. Only problem...

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by daverave

17-11-2014|11:56 PM

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Vehicle model question.

I'm working on an older truck model and I chopped the roof to make it lower and I'm lost on how to either connect it to the lower part or do I...

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by cj74

16-11-2014|07:03 PM

Replies: 2

Broken UV map

EDIT: Moved to correct group.

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by kokiridude

13-11-2014|12:06 PM

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UV's Stretching

I'm new to Maya and for some reason unlike with my other models, when I move my UV's that I've created based on camera view, with this one it pulls...

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by mother01

13-11-2014|09:50 AM

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Part of my work is dark?

I just finished modeling my shark but I found out that part of my shark is covered in dark. I changed the material but it doesn't help. What should I...

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by stwert

12-11-2014|04:23 PM

Replies: 3

Untextured Spider

Hi, I'm doing the Spider texturing tutorial but the spider included is alreay textured and subdivided quite a bit. Where is the low poly version...

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by saleh13

12-11-2014|02:18 PM

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Skinning- More than 100% weighted. Is that normal?

Okay, It has been years since I rigged anything, and I just went to rig and skin a simple model on a computer that has Maya 2013. The last time I...

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by 0motnahp0

11-11-2014|03:53 PM

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How to combine 2 Nurbs Surfaces ?

Hello Maya-Community, I have a logo, built out of bezier curves, and I offset the curves to get thikness then I just planar and loft them. Now...

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by ssd160

10-11-2014|12:29 PM

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Wierd polygon shading after smoothing

So I have this problem with smoothing parts of my object. the shading of the faces is all wierd afterwards, but when I delete the faces and fill...

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by Magicool

10-11-2014|04:56 AM

Replies: 2

Bowl UV problem

Hey guys. Modelling a bowl and gonna add a concrete texture. But I've deleted the "bottom" and now i don't know, how to fix it, so that the UV...

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by MikkelSL

09-11-2014|10:25 AM

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problem with grid

What could be causing the outlines of the polygons to disappear when they're not highlighted, like the attached images show? I'm using black for...

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by count23

03-11-2014|10:17 PM

Replies: 7

Error: Unable to load image

I'm trying to import a Maya ascii created in Boujou. It begins life as an image sequence generated in After effects for use in Boujou, then exported...

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by xgabrielx

03-11-2014|02:41 PM

Replies: 3