Yeah I checked a Maya reference book I have and searched google, but not until I had a keyword did I really find what I was looking for. Because "polygon divisions Maya 2008" is too vague a search...

The challenge with getting help in programs like Maya is knowing what question to ask. All you really need is a keyword - in this case "construction history" - and you can find an answer. But...

Ahhhh thank you that was it. Sure enough there was a red X over construction history in the status bar.

Man, one wrong click in Maya can screw everything up...

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okay I screwed myself by somehow changing settings in Maya 2008 - it used to be I would create a polygon sphere, for example, with 20 divisions width and height. Then I would adjust the divisions in...

Hit "s" when the camera is selected to key its position/scale/rotation etc. This will automatically key each of them. If you want to only key Rotate X, for example, click Rotate X on the right of...

I'm working on a city street full of neon signs, which flicker due to auto exposure in the shader glow attribute. So I need to manually input the glow intensity, but I can't access the...

I have some text I want to pull along a motion path. It bends around a corner, and I want each letter to bend around it individually. The grouped text though is stiff, the whole word moves in...

that's an After Effects problem. You should render out your .mov as animation. When its in your render queue click on lossless>format options. Animation is the best. If you try doing video, for...

That's weird - the polygon doesn't even show up in the UV texture editor. wtf is this thing?

And by pre-smoothed I mean it hasn't been smoothed yet. The low-poly version. The model consists of...

No it comes pre-smoothed, I guess so it's easier to work with until you're ready to smooth it. Also I can't apply textures to it... when I do the surface turns into stripes. This isn't like any...