I'm going to start off with MAX and then try out Maya. Autodesk offers a 13 month license for free on all it's software for students so I should be good. I got a subscription to digital tutors so I can learn both of them and not have to worry about only having access to one type of tutorial. Thanks for your inputs. I know…
Maya. I use vraymtl with grey color as "base" material for vray blend node and vraymtl with blue color for "coat" of the same blend node. And as a "blend amount" i use black and white texture. Everything works as expected until i want change blue and have it transparent and not blue . Blue becomes white and not…
Software: Maya / ZBrush / Substance 3D Painter / UE5 Fan art of Minamoto no Raikou from Fate/Grand Order. Rendered in toolbag Feedback and critiques are welcome.
Yes, Maya 2014 will very rarely do very odd things. I had things happening that would have been hilarious, if they weren'T so sad at the time ^^ So the old rules still apply. Save often and use iterate saves. Also you might check if your object is inside a group (and ungroup it + try again). Or you could check if there are…
I constantly work with 10-20 characters in my scene, plus level geo, and have no issues. I've gotten maybe 2 crashes in the last 14 months? It's funny. When you talk to animators about their preferred tools, it seems like everyone hates the one they hate because it crashes a lot. But what's killer is that everyone has…
I just started learning Maya, making a hard surface model. It worked fine but now when i open it (open scenes) it loads the tools in the outliner but not the model and it freezes. I tried importing it, same issue. It doesnt show any error...just freezes When i double click the scene, its just loading forever. I use a…
While using Arnold in Maya, I faced an unusual problem: There are 32 teeth models in the project (16 upper and 16 lower). I use 4 UDIM maps; one for each eight teeth. For some reason, Maya visually inverts the Normal maps along the Y axis ONLY for the lower teeth, while the upper teeth remain as they should (in the final…
Totally, its really one of those 'shouldnt this just work' moments for me :P. I wonder if it has to do with the newer versions of maya. Maybe a new option box somewhere..? Hey Kodde: Its just an 512 targa texture on a plane. I make sure it has an alpha channel, but cant get the display in maya. Thanks for the wiki! Though…
I tried learning Maya5 over a 3-4 month period, and gave up. The fact that I have to write a MelScript to do something as simple as target weld, put me over the edge . Though I do have to re-learn Lightwave for my new job . As far as the Max/Maya cut-off goes, I don't think Autodesk will stop making either one. Maya will…
I figured out where I may have an issue. I had been testing this in Maya 2010, and my instructor told me that Maya 2011 will not rename paths that don't exist, apparently this behaviour is the same in 2010 it seems and maybe earlier. Trying my script on actual file names like MoP did works fine but this was intended as…