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Beer glass scene creation

This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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file import and file lock problem

Here's an interesting one, I've created a batch script in maya (python) that grabs the contents of a directory and for each file found (.3ds in this...

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by t1ck135

22-01-2008|02:16 AM

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Link rotating X and Translate X

Hi I am not sure which subject to post this under because I don’t know if it is going to be a Mel answer or what! I have never used Mel and I...

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by t1ck135

31-12-2007|02:40 PM

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Where are the threads?

Sure this post may be unecessary and in the wrong section, but when I'm looking for a specific MEL script - that is cfVertextoJoint / cfJointtoVertex...

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by mtmckinley

26-12-2007|02:39 AM

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rotating sprite expression

Hello, I have sprites that I would like to make randomly rotate on the Z Axis, how would you write an expression for this? Cheers in advance. ...

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by wokendreams

28-11-2007|06:58 PM

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D/L Custom ShortCut Shelves

Hey guys this is my collection of shortcuts over the years. I will update them every so often. Contains normal short cuts, echo short cuts and...

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by AikoWorld

15-11-2007|08:51 AM

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rotation expression troubles

Hi, I'm trying to create an expression to make my instanced objects (simple disc shapes) rotate randomly as they fall. I have added a general PP...

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by BadG3r

26-10-2007|10:18 PM

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Apply Maya's Images onto a Shelf Button

I'm creating my custom shelf and I can't find the location of the icons that are already applied on other shelf buttons, such as the up and down...

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by BennyK

23-10-2007|02:10 AM

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spiderman web help

hi, i made a spiderman project for my short animation and have run into a minor problem with the web. the web works fine. the way i created the...

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by t1ck135

19-10-2007|08:55 PM

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MEL script to test and set shader transparency

Hey all, to save time, I need a shortcut to toggle the transparency of the default shader. So I want to create a small MEL script to test and set...

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by t1ck135

01-10-2007|11:54 AM

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knowing face applied texture ?

how to retrieve which texture is applied to the a poligonal face? like listAttr texturename pCube1.f ? it is possible?

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by Jay

25-09-2007|05:41 PM

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bFlocking artificial flocking tool | Page: 1 2

Here's a custom Maya tool I've written in Python to generate artificial flocking or 'boids' based on the work of Craig Reynolds. Its an early version...

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by t1ck135

07-09-2007|11:38 AM

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Mental Ray in MEL

Hi, i want, if possible, to user the Math functions of Mental Ray into my scripts MEL. how to call, for example, the function: void mi_vector_neg(...

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by vladimirjp

07-09-2007|02:44 AM

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position of a vertex | Page: 1 2

Hi How to get the value of the position of polygon vertex (x y z)... What is the MEL command to get the value ... Please some one reply me...

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by souzasan

01-09-2007|06:38 AM

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Python with Maya 8.5 ?

Has anyone used the Python scripting engine introduced with Maya 8.5 ? I'm interested in feedback on how well it works. I'd love to dump Mel for...

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by t1ck135

07-08-2007|11:06 AM

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i have problem with this code...

string $selections = `ls -sl`; for ($selection in $selections) { addAttr -ln vcoord -at double -min 0 -max 1 $selection; ...

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by kbrown

15-07-2007|06:16 AM

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Any skinning technique

what is the easiest procedure for skining....

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by Nirmal_c

23-06-2007|07:32 PM

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Align UV Left, Top, Bottom, Right

hi, in the uv texture editor there is an option alignUV min. value, max value in U and V. Does anybody know the mel command (function) for this....

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by e-anima

07-06-2007|06:43 PM

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Scirpt help Please

Sorry to bother you guys with this but can you tell me what I am doing wrong? I am trying to get what ever geometry I have selected to instance its...

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by n8vfx

25-03-2007|04:17 AM

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Trying to get my pinball-MELscript to work

Hi, I'm tryng to get pinball to run with Maya by using this MELO-script: It doesn't give me any errors, but it's not giving me anything else...

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by kbrown

21-01-2007|11:24 AM

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scrollField

Has anyone ever used the scrollField command? Trying to figure it out with the docs, with limited success. It seems to ignore my width and height...

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by Dann

17-01-2007|04:51 PM

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Procedural animation Help

Hi everyone, My name is Nick and I'm a student at CCAD. I'm working on a rig that I would like to incorporate procedural animation into. I have...

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by ghoest

17-01-2007|01:02 PM

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Spin Faces script

I went to get the spin faces script from highend3d and it says that the link doesn't exist. I was wondering if there is any other script like it? Or...

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by Rhetoric Camel

07-01-2007|07:54 PM

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Polysmoothface script help

Hi Everyone, I completed Kari's helicopter tutorial some time ago now posted a few renders but always found the smooth scripts very useful. But...

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by ribbons

02-01-2007|10:05 PM

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Exporting SWF Using MEL Script

Someone showed me how to create a 3D model, render, and animate and then export to SWF format all within a MEL script without getting into the Maya...

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by ichua

26-12-2006|07:36 AM

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Help! "Not enough data was provided."

Generally, what i am trying to create is a script that will make me 50 duplicates of my object, each object with his own random values as to scale,...

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