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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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Deformation testing problem

I am taking an animation course at my local community college where we are learning to design game characters. This course also includes a book...

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by junkyBob

03-04-2006|06:56 PM

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ewbie help adding ik handles to legs, i cant do it

these are the instructions i have from my university site, i also have been trying to work from the foundation book 'learning maya 5' (although im...

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by sasskiaduncan

03-04-2006|02:49 PM

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Setting Convex Hulls In Meshes

Hi, I want to model a triangle mesh and then divide it into conves hulls. I am able to model meshes form nurbs, but is there a way to detect or...

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by MattTheMan

02-04-2006|11:31 PM

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UV Mapping ing 7.0

Was watching tge Furry Yeti tutorial and was wondering if there was a new feature in unlimited that does all those hours of uv flattening for you?...

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by Eldwick

02-04-2006|03:55 AM

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Walkerman with Centaur Added

Walkerman download is now in: Download > Mel Download > Animation Download I see quite a few people have downloaded the program, so far I have...

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by )v(3thuDmaN

02-04-2006|01:06 AM

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Rain

using the rain effect how do i go about making it gradually become harder rain. you know starting with a few drops then moving up to torrents

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by MamoruK

01-04-2006|11:16 PM

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are there any non-video tutorials?

right now Im doing the ones that come with Maya Unlimited but once im done with those, I wanna move onto more complicated stuff..but I cant seem to...

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by HTB

01-04-2006|09:02 PM

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Modelling a Limousine

Hello everyone at SM. Well, i am planning to model a Limousine for my upcoming project, and i am looking for some nice front,side,top reference...

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by pbman

01-04-2006|08:55 PM

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Poker

Hey guys just wondering how many of you play poker? Everyone seems to be playing it these days. Found a great place to play online where u can...

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by mtmckinley

01-04-2006|08:01 PM

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Rug threads

I've been trying to make rugs for environmental pics and have succedded except in one way. I have no idea how to make the tassells at the end that...

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by Wishbonekenobi

01-04-2006|06:27 PM

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Free Tut's

Update: Nevermind, Im now a member Hola, since I am not a VIP member yet (but plan to be very soon) whenever I try to download a free tut it says...

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by Eldwick

01-04-2006|05:23 PM

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rigid body simulation

Ok, it seems I've got a lot of problems tonight. I created a simple rigid body simulation. One active and one passive one gravity field afecting...

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by farbtopf

01-04-2006|02:52 PM

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Maya Courses

Does anyone know of any courses that are around (UK) that are not based in london as its a nightmare to get in and out of there after my work. ...

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by deathwish

01-04-2006|12:59 PM

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CrySIS FarCry2...

the new engines... u know, elder scrolls IV is interesting, unreal3 demos were way cool... then project offset , do this on their basement, then the...

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by dragonfx

01-04-2006|08:25 AM

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Render Background

Is there a way I can change the background color of my renders, while still in Maya?

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by Insanity Projects

31-03-2006|10:46 PM

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help me save rendering time please

Hi there, I'm rendering a transparent material in front of an image plane displaying an image sequence, so the object will later in the...

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by farbtopf

31-03-2006|09:02 PM

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and another thing!

I have a .mb file that has lost it's start-up camera. I must have inadvertanly deleted it so now when I start up the file it tells me... Warning:...

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by ronstern

31-03-2006|06:18 PM

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wierd things happened!

I seem to have lost the ability to import .ai files. That is, I can import them and they are listed in the Hypergraph but there is nothing in the...

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by ronstern

31-03-2006|06:07 PM

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Texturing issue

I am trying to put the below texture onto a face but everytime i do as you can see the results do not look like what they are supposed to any help...

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by Elzevir

31-03-2006|03:16 PM

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Maya vs. Max

I am really new to Maya. Its the first time ever i use maya and i have version 7.0 and i have just finished the hammer tutorial :D But i have te...

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by 13th_resident

31-03-2006|02:52 PM

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What The H . . . ? ? ?

Perhaps no one has discovered this yet, but the Walkerman program that I wrote can be tinkered with in a rather amusing way . . . . If you...

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by skywola

31-03-2006|11:40 AM

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Polygon Shading / Rendering Issue

I have created a simple polygon for a spoke and rim of a mag on a car. i was wondering how to make it not look shady in certain areas, this looks...

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by donvella

31-03-2006|05:31 AM

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CG Books?

I'm about to work abroad for what maybe a lengthy time so am after some literature to keep me busy and aide my maya progress, what books would you...

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by gster123

30-03-2006|07:02 PM

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Transparency Map

Hello - I am trying to make a transparency map. I have finished my colour map (below) and the problem is that I don't know how to select just the...

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by arran

30-03-2006|05:38 PM

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Combining, maya locks up

I am trying to do an animation and if I try to rotate my model all the bits turn on there own axis. I am trying to overcome this by combining all the...

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by errethakbe

30-03-2006|05:28 PM

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