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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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merging animations

Allo all, i am working on an animation and i was just wonderin if it was possible to merge 2 or more antimations together? For example, if i made a...

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by Some Guy

31-08-2006|03:05 PM

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Maya PLE

I recentley made a model in Maya PLE and when I try and open it in maya 7 I can't I get this awkward message unrecognized file. How can I open...

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by gster123

31-08-2006|01:06 PM

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Limit CPU usage when rendering?

Is it possible to limit the amount of CPU usage Maya uses when rendering? It would be very useful to be able to use my PC for other task while...

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by jpardoe

31-08-2006|10:29 AM

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Worldwide Student Competition -Virtuality Conference 2006

Worldwide Student Competition -Virtuality Conference 2006 After the international success of the student competition juried at Virtuality in 2005,...

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by Nico_Venom

31-08-2006|04:00 AM

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How to change default render background colour?

When I render my scene, I have a black background and I want to change it to a light-grey. How?

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by jpardoe

30-08-2006|07:19 PM

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Question for Kurt

I have a problem when converting poly's to sud-d . In Kurt's Ship tutorial he convert's poly's to sub-d and back but I keep seeing some annoying...

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by Dutch_Can

30-08-2006|06:08 PM

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edges probs

Can you guys figure out whats wrong with this? I have come back to an old model to alter it, I extruded the edges where the black shading is, I have...

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by j5ive

30-08-2006|05:02 PM

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Marketing Art

Hey All thought I'd post this piece that I borrowed from ConceptArts' forum. Its a marketing piece from Prince of Persia... Basically on the...

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by pixelsoul

30-08-2006|04:01 PM

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Transform via the geometry direction

How can i rotate/scale in uniform relation to the geometry direction?

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by j5ive

30-08-2006|02:10 PM

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Skin and Skeletons

Having some problem with adding shapes and skin to a skeleton I've created. Its not impressive, just simple joints. I have absolutley no idea how to...

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by TAZINLWFL

30-08-2006|09:11 AM

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Converting Triangles to Quads? (not working)

Heya. I have a model here I got from a game but.... I've already used Polygon Cleanup to take care of some 'crazyness' that was going on with the...

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by j5ive

30-08-2006|07:34 AM

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NURB circle resizing is not smooth.

Hi All, I am new to the site. I am really enjoying the forums and being very new to Maya am picking it up slowly but surely. I am using Maya 6...

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by Zane

30-08-2006|06:46 AM

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Assign material only in one side of a plane

I have a plane and a material assigned to it. How do I make one of the sides with no material? Thanks for support! ...

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by danilodurso

29-08-2006|09:52 PM

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Free Download for Matte Painting? | Page: 1 2

Hey All For those who are interested, Daz are giving away Bryce 5 for FREE!! Yes, FREE!! Be quick though, its a limited period Its worth...

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by Jay

29-08-2006|05:10 PM

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when texturing for gaming purposes...

Do you create the texture sets larger say 2048x2048 then texture them in ps, then bring them back down to 1024x1024 to retain most of the detail? I'm...

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by Kurt

29-08-2006|04:50 PM

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Spinning Coin and how to play film on Imageplane

Hi, I'm doing an animation where a coin spins and för each turn there will be a different coin. how do I do this in maya? I know I could make a...

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by FrankByström

29-08-2006|11:48 AM

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Mudbox 3D

Scanning through the latest 3D World in WH Smiths today and noted some new program called Mudbox 3D. Anyone in the beta and knows a little about this...

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by Jay

29-08-2006|10:48 AM

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rigging question

i been watching a rigging tutorial .. just wondering .. can someone tell me the path in maya 7 to "parent" bones to the models? seems like...

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by arran

29-08-2006|10:21 AM

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Baking lighting information?

How do I bake all of the lighting info inside my scene to my model ready for exporting? I tried it myself 'off the bat' and the result turned my...

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by j5ive

29-08-2006|07:30 AM

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Plugin Question

I've got a question for ya'll i've got a tutorial of gnomon humanoid modeling... in the first video they are gonna use the Byron's PolyTool for the...

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by Redmer

29-08-2006|05:43 AM

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Boat model needed for photo project. Feel like helping?

I would like to try a photo-realistic combination of a mermaid on a rock (photo) with a stormy sea and fishing/cargo boat or old sailing ship, for...

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by foto-z

28-08-2006|08:43 PM

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Deleting keys?

How do I delete certain keys from the timeline, or even edit them to make my animation smoother? Also sometimes the red line defining the set keys in...

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by j5ive

28-08-2006|06:57 PM

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Maya modeling menu set will not change please help

hi everyone. I got very weird problem. I can not change maya modeling menu set from animation to polygon or surface, please let me know if you know...

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