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Re: Q: Editing mesh on a character that already rigged
If you are using maya: Skin>Detach skin Edit your mesh Delete history Skin>bind skin>smooth bind File>create reference Select the file of your skinned model Select the reference model (using the hypergraph heirarchy makes this easier) Hold shift and select your edited mesh Skin>edit smooth skin>copy skin weights (using… -
Tut: Baking AO Maps Using a Normal Map
The following procedure covers creating an Ambient Occlusion or "shadow map" using a normal map and low poly mesh in 3ds max 8. This may be old news for some of you, but it is a technique I learned recently so I thought that I would share. Some may ask "why not just use your high poly mesh and a projection modifier to… -
Maya Vewport problems with large scale scene
Hey all, Hopefully you guys have run into this before and know how to fix it. When working in large scenes in maya 2016 like 60mx30m or something. Once I start getting multiple large assets in the scene, can just be cubes and cylinders my selection starts to not work. I will select one asset and it will select something… -
UV face framerates
Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem. Did a search and didn't find much on it. When I am unwrapping in max2010 my frame rate drops to around 4 fps. This happens whenever I enter face selection. Framerates stay high in all other selection modes but as soon as I go to face selection it bottoms out. I am not… -
Maya 2014: Lack of Immediate Response
Maya 2014 (Educational) has somehow started lagging. Does anyone have ay idea how to solve it? 1) Create a cube primitive. 2) Switch to Vertex Selection. 3) Draw Marquee around selectable Vertices. >> Maya viewport does not immediately display update with selected vertices (yellow vertices) The Viewport DOES update when I… -
[Maya][Python] Logic Revision in a Display Toggle Script
I wanted to see how to shorten some of these expressions if possible as I'm still learning...It´s a script that'll toggle meshes between High Quality Display and Low Quality Display. Some of my bigger concerns are three: 1-To set something to HQ, I believe the only flag needed is -polygonObject, even though in the Script… -
UVW Unwrapping help
I've never fully understood UVW Unwrapping in 3DS Max. I went on a 3 year university course on Games Design and I was never really taught anything. Anyway, not going to get too wound up about that now if you guys can help me :) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/milkfloat.jpg/ I've created an abandoned milk float and… -
Marmoset Toolbag 2 output?
I'm just beginning my Marmoset 2 days and having some difficulties with the capturing. -When I select Capture/Show Output folder, nothing opens (I assume it's supposed to?) -When I select Capture/Image I get the windows loading circle but no image shows up where I expect it to (desktop) When I select Capture/Image & Open… -
Wills and Wonders screenshots; likes and dislikes
I took screenshots of my game, Wills and Wonders, and looking for feedback on things you liked about them and/or things you disliked; and also very open to suggestions on ways to improve. Looking forward to feedback, thank you for taking a moment to look them over. The saved games screen. The world map. When accessing a… -
How to pack UVs but retain hand placed UV shells in Maya?
You can see an illustration of the problem here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6lhrb9peb...ed_UVs.jpg?dl=0 What I have done so far is PIN the selected UV shells. However two things happen when I do the layout command (1) If the pinned UV shells is not selected, the layout command will overlap the pinned shells rather than…
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