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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 01-08-2005 , 08:06 AM

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How do you paint something directly on a Poly object so it doesnt trail off the object..

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# 2 01-08-2005 , 08:07 AM

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heres a picture of it just trailing of when i paint..

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# 3 01-08-2005 , 06:44 PM

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switch to the rendering menu set. under paint effects, select make paintable.

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# 4 01-08-2005 , 07:01 PM

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I did do that, but it still trails off..

edit: it was doing that because I had paint on depth checked, but now it deletes it where I painted and mirrors it on the Z-axis..

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# 5 01-08-2005 , 07:22 PM

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Is paint Effects supposed to be attacking my systems framerate dramatically?

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# 6 01-08-2005 , 07:38 PM

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pfx are notoriously slow... I suspect there is a lot of math involved to update the render data.

If your system is up to it, you can try using the paint scene mode to visualize the effects as you paint them. press "8" then from the panel menu select paint>paint scene.

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# 7 01-08-2005 , 07:54 PM

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Is there a faster way to do it, and also, how do you delete furs that were applied to my object. they just show up in the objects attributes and I cant get rid of them..

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# 8 01-08-2005 , 08:29 PM

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delete the stroke.

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# 9 02-08-2005 , 02:24 AM

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how do you delete the stroke and leave the paint fx?

btw, thanks for all the help mhcannon

edit: how do you render paint fx?

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Originally posted by Billy_Cat
how do you delete the stroke and leave the paint fx?
??? I thought you want to get rid of a fur pfx, if so, delete the stroke(s) for the fur. The stroke is the base of the effect... no stroke, no effect. Is the fur something beside pfx?

btw, thanks for all the help mhcannon
You're welcome... just hope it is some help.

edit: how do you render paint fx?
Use the software renderer. If you need a different render engine then you'll probably have to convert the pfx to polygons.

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# 11 02-08-2005 , 07:36 AM

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Well, for the fur I was going to try a gorrilla fur effect, and when I clicked on the polys I wanted it on and clicked on the Gorilla fur effect button, it did nothing, then I tried selecting the whole model and doing it, but nothing happened. I tried other effects besides gorilla and nothing happened again.

Now when I go to the object in the attribute editor, all the effects I added now show up in the attribute editor, and I cant get rid of them.
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Hmm, I was using the software renderer when I rendered them...

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