These tutorials are meant for beginners, but you should at least know how to use the program. One of the best beginner tutorials would be the Joan of Arc one, lots of information and very complete, but nevertheless some basic understanding of the programm you use(in this case Maya) is needed. Maybe you should look at mayas…
I have here a flat top hair style with all the modifiers turned off so it's just the base xgen. I'm attempting to smooth the top part but each guide adds a little hill. At first I had spare hair guides, which is usually the best way to go, but this only made the bumps bigger. Each guide I placed just made the hills…
Hello polycount! I'm trying to find articles about how and why this or that studio uses maya in their pipeline, but so far I only found quite a lot of Bungie's slides about their animation pipeline, and some Naughty Dog's slides about their animation pipeline. Maybe anyone knows about some other…
Hi guys, im working with maya for 6 years and in game develop for 2 years. I want to lern more about types of mapping and i heard that in Polycount are the best :) Im used to use Diffuse, Transparency, Normal map and a little bit of Specular but i heard in other sites about "Gloss map" and "TM" map!? I don't know what's…
Well, I wrapped up my work on Warhammer. 3 long years and its finally out. I'm relocating to another company and they use Maya so I'm teaching myself as much as possible. I will be doing terrain with them much like Mythic but I will also be modeling. I have a lot of free time right now since I still have 3 weeks until my…
Hello peeps, im transitioning to Maya and having a bit of problems. What i want to achieve is to be able to switch between hotkey layouts on the fly according to my needs, if i model (i prefer to have ALL functions on keyboard, i hate pressing UI buttons) i want all my keyboard to be rigged for work as a piano, if i…
First of all: Yes i want to make the switch from Maya to Blende :-O In Blender there is a functionality called "Layers". If you have 2 Meshes called "mesh_a", "mesh_b" and "mesh_c" and you only want to work with "mesh_c", without every now and then hide the oder two meshes you could: put "mesh_a" and "mesh_b" into "Layer…
Hi all, I'm facing the same problem for Maya 2009 and it seems to be a known problem. Quoting Autodesk for Maya 2009 SP1 update: Stereo cameras and ATI graphics cards Due to an update in CG 2.1, stereo cameras in Maya caused display errors when using an ATI graphics card. This has been fixed. Go to…
Maya Renderman vs Maya Vray. Which one has the better preset material library? Vray has two guys that have put out a generous preset library of preset shaders. But, I can't find any preset library for Renderman. Which one is easier to learn? There are many Youtube tutorials for Maya Vray and many tutorials to buy online. I…
Hello PC. I am little bit new to Maya, and having maybe dumb question but it's giving a huge headache. I am modelling npc for stalker game, and export gives me such error "can't find parent bone bip01_neck" the problem related to the biped or joint (I guess it's so called in maya) I used to reach Schematic view in max and…