Hi, I want to create a heaping pile of objects using and emitter because placing them and having them fall on the floor manually is tedious and chokes maya. I was thinking about having an emitter...

Hi, whenever I try to make an object an active rigid body half the time it leaps away from its initial position either zooming far off screen or when I try to move it zooming off screen. I don't...

Hi, I was wondering what to look for in good graphics cards for work in maya (fluid sims, physics etc) and mudbox? How important is vram?

I'm looking at an nvidia 965m 2gb vram currently. Main...

Generally no knowledge of programming is needed except for some specialized cases like creating plugins. Maya I think has a specialized scripting language. IMO due to quirks Maya is harder to learn...

nope, I even ungrouped to be sure. Strangely converting to physX dynamic rigid bodies or ncloth gives me none of the issues that the default active rigid bodies do.

Bizarre, I tried deleting history and delete all history through the edit menu I tried the playback all frames to no avail. The only thing that seems to work sometimes is creating a new scene and...

Its not even in playback it just shifts automatically when I make it into a rigid body and then completely disappears when I try to move it without hitting the playback button. Strangely though it...

hi,

I'm wondering if there is any good physics plugin for maya. I heard there was a physX plugin but that it wasn't very good. Does anyone have experience with several or would know of the best...

All it seems to do is create two 2d letters when I attempt to extrude.

I'm in the process of extruding letters from 2d polygon surfaces. Sometimes it doesn't work properly and rather than be a proper extrusion along the z axis the edges end up all jacked up and the...