Custom Default Textures in Maya?

David Somers

Hello fellow Polycounters! So this strikes me as a very simple question I somehow complicated beyond belief. All I wanted was to add in the old noIcon.pic from Softimage as an optional Hypershade 2D Texture list. I recently made the transition over (after around ten yrs of Softimage) and I just wanted easy access to my old noIcon default that I'd used for so many years.

With Softimage there was a core folder I could modify to customize it a bit. However I'm unable to find such a directory in Maya. Am I stuck just loading it as a separate file or is there a way to include it on the 2D Textures list?

oglu

I have no idea if there is a way to hack the UV editor.

But i use the RenderSetup todo somehting similar.
I have saved a checker Shader as preset.

David Somers

Ah yeah, I'm in LT so I might be feeling some of those limitations as well. Just seems strange that there wouldn't be a default folder in the install that I could slap this in.

sprunghunt

All the default images are stored in the /program files/maya 2018/  folder in various subfolders.

However I think the UV checker texture is actually a procedural shader. So you can't just swap it for a texture. 

You can change some of the values for the checker pattern by clicking on the options square next to checker map under the "Textures" menu in the UV editor.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Modeling/files/GUID-952489BA-59DC-4A43-8FAD-3A3D79C14347-htm.html