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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 20-06-2003 , 06:26 AM

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hi everybody i was bulding something in maya, was working on it for an hour or so and the rare instance happend where maya FROZE user added image

the worst part about that is i lost all my work and i hate to repeat things.

so finaly my question is, is the an auto save function where it saves every 5 minites or so just incase that ever happens again, rare but it does happen

thanx for any of the help

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# 2 20-06-2003 , 06:26 AM

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nope

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# 3 20-06-2003 , 12:58 PM

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File > Save > Options. Check Incremental Save. It'll save every now and then. Not as precise as stating a time, but better than losing everything.

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# 4 20-06-2003 , 01:09 PM

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Mike, are you sure that's automatic? I thought incremental save just created scene backups from each point you saved at but you still had to manually save?

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# 5 20-06-2003 , 01:27 PM

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You may be right. I haven't actually used Incremental Save, but i figured it was what he was looking for. Sorry if I was mistaken. user added image

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# 6 20-06-2003 , 01:36 PM

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No biggie. According to the help docs you do still have to manually save....I can see it being quite useful on larger, complex projects, especially if one's just starting out. I tend to just "save as..." when doing any major things that I might regret later. user added image

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# 7 20-06-2003 , 01:43 PM

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there's a plugin I saw somewhere that lets you autosave. I think its at highend3d or something.

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# 8 21-06-2003 , 11:47 AM

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incremental save basically saves your scene as different files everytime you hit save only with diff file names, like, first save its called
scene.mb
then when you hit save again it saves ANOTHER file called
scene02.mb
etc
etc

it just lets you go back to a point in time where you can redo something a diff way

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# 9 21-06-2003 , 12:05 PM

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I've used incremental save and it's really good! it's like a really good Undo user added image

but about the AutoSave... that gave me an idea to try and write my own AutoSave MEL script ..

it'll be a while as I just lost 100GB of stuff when my HDD died a few hours ago but ...but... I dont wanna talk about it!!! user added image