Hi Guys, another newbie here... Basically I am a 21 year-old student who has just blown a portion of his savings on a new desktop to replace a laptop killed by hours of modelling. I tried to create a system that would give me as much power, and longevity without buying a dedicated 3d workstation (because I couldn't justify…
Thank You. After four full working days of hand-wringing and research I've finally caved: I cannot solve this problem on my own. Apologies if this has been covered, but I really cannot find a solution anywhere. I cannot figure out what's causing the artifacts in the 1st normal map above. Viewed in DirectX/Stingray 3DSMax…
oops, I kept thinking I'd try and mess with this one, but I forgot until now. I just checked it out and I guess the big problem is that the context you're using when painting vertex colors can ONLY paint RGB or RGBA. SO if you want this to work out you probably need to create your own context. The trouble is that all the…
The Smart Material setup is highly dependent upon input maps. If the maps change at all from project to project, the results will too. How are you setting up your projects? Are you letting 3DO bake curvature or are you using your custom curvature map? It's important to note that adding a normal map to a project…
Since you've added IK it becomes a wee bit harder to extract the bone rotations, so you'll firstly want to set up some Expose Transform helper objects. They will query your bone rotations and provide an interface for them. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vxWQPFUbzQ[/ame] So, without seeing how your rig is set up I'll…
SHIFT+SPACE appears to be GPU-sensitive. It can take a couple of tries for it to register. Keep trying it until it works. We've been trying to isolate why it doesn't work 100% of the time every time. The pen issue stems from the Cintiq. SUITE supports Wacom tablets, but Cintiq monitors have had issues with the software in…
Yeah get all that. Been on the job for 9mths, though at times to be fair I'd found can be rewarding but overall really long crazy hours for not much compensation at the end of the day, considering the potential risks involved. So IMHO it's an industry as with most 'service' based businesses for that matter, are typically…
I quickly tried this. Not entirely sure how to select faces, need to look around the documentation abit, i tried polyInfo but the results where wierd.. anyway import maya.cmds as cmds#get the skin cluster and the jointselection = cmds.ls(sl=True, fl=True)jointSelection = cmds.ls(sl=True,type = "joint")#we need the shape…
As some of you know I'm a computer tech and have doing it for years. There was a budget cut at my current employer (I was the budget cut) so I decided it was time to go to school and finally earn a degree. In the next year or so I'll be graduating with an associates degree in Computer Information technology. Ihave also…
Note: I'm not to good with the technical jargon so please bear with me. Hopefully I can get my query across clearly. Thanks in advance for any help I am having a problem with CGFX shaders in maya 8.5. I am using CGFX shaders created in FX composer and loading them up using ColladaFX. Problem is that when I do use ColladeFX…