**** I've been stupid recently.

Switched linear smooth back to exponential.

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Ha.

I've just been using the normal edit tool and all the black spots are back to front normals. Why? If it's not new, why couldn't I see this before?

Why are the normals in the surrounding area of...

Sorry was in a rush and its late here. So sleepy.

I meant soften/hardening my normals, not normalising UV's.

I have been working on this file with no problems, all of a sudden I'm getting black spots. All my files of this character are like this now. Very strange.

I've tried normalising UV's, merging...

Yes, mirror skin weights... But using mirror skin weights on my model does nothing. The button does nothing!!!

Duuuhhh.....

It's late here. What have I done wrong?

Just fixed my own stupid.

I detached the skin and re-smooth binded it.

All UV's stay put now.

I edited a small portion of UV's after binding, I do believe that was the problem.

Hello all.

I've just finished rigging my character, about to start skinning. But el problemo with my UV's, when I move certain IK's my UV's go absolutely crazy.

Please see screenshot.

What...

We use 3ds Max 8 at school, and pelt unwrapping is my hero. 3ds max is an ugly program. But pelt unwrapping is some life saving shit. I have tried the mel script for pelt unwrapping, but its a wild...

FCheck was indeed popping up homes. But you don't have to believe me :)

Reinstalled maya, no problems now. I also ran discwarrior.

Thanks to Pierre-Jean Lievaux for this simple suggestion.
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Having some problems importing 3ds files into maya.

I found this tutorial

http://www.highend2d.com/maya/tutorials/import_export/245.html

When I import my 3ds FCheck opens it.

How do I...