I have model with 2 materials, each assigned a file texture. I don't recall exactly how I set that up. I also have UVs defined such that model is distributed on the two textures. I'm using PLE...

It depends on how the models will be used.

Many games require 3-sided polygons in the meshes, like UT2004. Other uses aren't as picky. In general, it's easier to work on a mesh that can have...

Interesting. So far the only thing I've used Maya (PLE) for is a UT2004 game model, and I had the opposite situation. I needed to turn a walk move into a treadmill version.

I started by making a...

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Mr. McKinley: You appear to be the author of the tutorial; can you offer any pre-sales advice on this?

Thanks.

PLE is closed. You can't import or export any file formats other than .mp. If they allowed .x, then you'd be able to use PLE (free) in a production pipeline, and that's not good for Maya's bottom...

I'm considering buying it. I have Maya PLE 5, the version that came with UT2004. I found another brief tutorial on the web (CharRig101-JakeCallery.pdf) that helped me build a decent foot control with...

Are you folks talking about this tutorial: http://www.simplymaya.com/movie_pages/tutorial.mhtml?tut_id=47?

I'm considering buying it. I have Maya PLE 5, the version that came with UT2004. I...

The error I was experiencing was due to limiting movement along axes for the elbow and wrist joint (so that they couldn't go in directions the real items can't). Once I freed up each joint to rotate...

Y'know, I was thinking about this and realized that what I really want is to have the constraint on both the elbow and the wrist. The wrist doesn't really move around a lot in these situations - the...

I tried something similar to that, but received an error message. What I tried was using an aim constraint on the wrist joint, and using a locator as the target. I didn't quite understand what the...