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Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

New to MAYA

I have just installed MAYA on my existing PC after using 3d Studio Max for some (very) amature modelling and animation. I do plan to learn this new...

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by Phopojijo

15-11-2005|09:30 PM

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freeze transformations and limiting movement

Hello, i study Maya at university and we are looking at animation and making basic skeletons through workshops. Anybody know what 'Freeze...

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by jacquipurkess

15-11-2005|04:07 PM

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Ships Hulls, any tips?

Hey I am just trying to model I World War 2 era destroyer at the moment. Probably a bit ambitious for a first project but we'll see how it goes. ...

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by Lt Jim

15-11-2005|03:37 PM

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Problem with Image Planes!!

Anyone knows how to fix this?????? check attach file:headbang:

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by illlusionz

15-11-2005|01:52 PM

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Digital 3D Online

Hey Everyone. I have recently started a new website that provides an Industry Blog, News, Tutorials, Downloads, etc for the 3D community....

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by shandaman

15-11-2005|01:21 PM

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Boolean difference messes up geometry all by itself

The pictures here represent before and after a boolean difference. All the other holes is made exactly the same way, but the last hole messes up...

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by PKPHaLaNX

15-11-2005|12:37 PM

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Making 3d objects viewable from own website?

Is it possible to take a 3d object with baked textures/lighting and make it viewable to the public from your own website? so that they can...

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by Shader

15-11-2005|11:35 AM

Replies: 3

Texture Help

Can someone post what all the textures in maya look like. Their physical Properties (ex: Shiny, reflective, etc...). A link will do just fine. If...

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by MattTheMan

15-11-2005|01:10 AM

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Normals mapping

Can someone give me a link to a good tutorial on bump mapping or normal mapping... and maybe a good tutorial on the UV mapping/edito. I only know...

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by Ineedhelp

14-11-2005|10:05 PM

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why 4 edges only on polygons?

why is it so important to have 4 edged polygons and not 3 or 5 or so? is it like that with all 3d apps? thanks :)

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by ZARDOZ

14-11-2005|08:45 PM

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Texture resolution

Hii. What resolution do you guys usually use for your textures? I textured my biplane with 2048*2048 but it seemed to be to small resolution(the...

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by Jay

14-11-2005|07:46 PM

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Boolean Difference + Bevel = broken geometry!?

If I take a simple poly cube (no subs), then place a smaller poly cube half-way in one of its faces, then do a Boolean->Difference, I end up with a...

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by Steve555

14-11-2005|11:04 AM

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spotty surface

I am getting flickering black spots all over my surface. It looks fine until I start bending a joint. It's like the normals go haywire or something.

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by PKPHaLaNX

14-11-2005|08:27 AM

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Modeling: Nurbs vs. Polygon

I seen a lot of tutorials, and a lot of them either start with nurbs or polygon, is this just an opinion? Like some people say better and easier to...

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by PKPHaLaNX

14-11-2005|08:23 AM

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big problem with polygon and subd

hello I know probably this sounds a little bit crazy. I have a problem in converting poly to subd. I am desiging a human body and everything was...

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by PKPHaLaNX

14-11-2005|08:21 AM

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Render issue

I have rendered this in Mental ray with depth map shadows (may be the problem I have no clue) and it looks in some areas like it is granulated or...

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by PKPHaLaNX

14-11-2005|08:20 AM

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some subd's not visible

when i render my scene with mentalray some subd objects do not show at all. but all the other subd object shows. what can be the reason for that?...

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by PKPHaLaNX

14-11-2005|08:17 AM

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looking for a mel script on UV mapping

Hi there all, I found this awsome turorial for Studio Max 5 that deals with UV unwrapping. However, the problem is the tutorial is for MAX, and also...

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by junkyBob

14-11-2005|03:21 AM

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tutorial for modeling human head

is there tutorial here modeling human heads using polys, point by point ??

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by junkyBob

14-11-2005|12:25 AM

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Sneak Peek

Just wanted to show you all little taste of whats around the couner. Its still early and alot more shaping left to do. There will be a unexpected...

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by BMS

13-11-2005|11:54 PM

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Rigging tut

Hey. can someone tell me which part of the Game Rigging tutorial, that handles with Blendshapes? I only need that part, since I already bought the...

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by masn45

13-11-2005|07:37 PM

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global illumination

i test global illumination just for fun and i have some problems that you surely know how to resolve.(i have only one light in my scene) -i want the...

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