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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 14-11-2012 , 11:05 PM

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Hey guys,

I'm fairly new to Maya.

I screwed up with hypershading, and have to mass delete a LOT of pasted blinns and colours I never knew I had.

On doing so, I've created the following problem, where colours wont light up, however uncolours default lamberts will.

Any help?

Thanks guys

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# 2 14-11-2012 , 11:20 PM

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Why are you using the high quality viewport? It's old, and doesn't work very well. Viewport 2.0 has bugs too. Turn it off, and you'll more than likely see your problems go away.

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# 3 14-11-2012 , 11:33 PM

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No it hasn't, its exactly the same when rendered, that's why I combined light + viewport on for ease.

It's something to do with something I deleted in hypershade.

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# 4 14-11-2012 , 11:46 PM

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High quality mode is just awful, more trouble than its worth. Is it looking bad in standard mode too? Could be that you deleted shading groups.

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# 5 15-11-2012 , 12:12 AM

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Its fine when I'm looking at it unrendered.

Its only when I render it, or when I add high quality on (to test if the light source i put in makes any effect - which it only lights default lambert1)

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# 6 15-11-2012 , 12:44 AM

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Is it possible to post the scene?

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# 7 15-11-2012 , 01:44 AM

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The colours that are lit are the new colours that ive created (colouring the old ones are too much of a pain to redo)

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EDIT: When I paste the house + materials into a new scene, it works fine.
EDIT2: It also mentions something about template UI in an error message bottom right of screen

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# 8 16-11-2012 , 03:43 PM

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I can't even see the image clearly enough to read the warning. When I said "scene" I meant the actual scene file, even if you get rid of all but one piece of problem geometry.

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