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Going from Max to Maya - I want to turn off edge display. Any tips? (SOLVED)
Hey all - I would like to find a way to make it such that edges do not display on my selected mesh while in, say edge mode. Though if I could just turn them off all together so when I'm in object mode they don't display either, that would be great. I want to do this mainly during hardening and softening edges, and other… -
SOLVED: Grouping and Smart materials
Hey, I tried searching about this information a bit and was surprised not to find anything. I have issues with when I create Smart materials (in 1.6) within groups sometimes they land in a completely different place then I expect. Sometimes they land in a group outside my current selected group (woot?). For instance, I… -
[Solved] Graph Editor/Timeline Zooming Methods
Hi, I am working on an interface similar to graph editors, timelines or similar windows for displaying animation keyframes and curves such as those in many 3D DCC packages and engines. Just to be clear this is a 2D window, not a 3D viewport. My aim is to recreate a behavior where you hold a mouse button and drag left/right… -
SOLVED: [3DS Max 2017] Lighting breaks when rendering specific frames
Hello Polycount! I am having a rendering issue with 3DS Max 2017 and Mental Ray. I have an animation that is 88 frames long and on frame 47 for whatever reason the shadows, reflections and spherical environment map break (Do not render) only on this specific frame. - I have 5 light sources, ( 2 spot lights and 3 point… -
[HardMesh 2.1] How Do I Open It? [SOLVED]
Software: Maya 2016.5 Ext 2 Plugin: HardMesh 2.1 (trial) Operating System: Windows 10 (latest) Hello everyone. I would like to try out HardMesh for Maya because it looks awesome! The only problem is, I can't figure out how to open it. I have been using the following documentation. I installed it and verified the two… -
Solved: Rerender Project resizes all maps to 1px
I'm not sure what's going on here, but Suite seems to be completely broken. One of my dynamasks wasn't rendering correctly so I tried rerendering the project, but that just resized all of the maps to 1 x 1. I reverted the changes and attempted to regenerate the dynamask by using the preset I had started with, but that… -
SOLVED | Really low quality when publishing a substance
I have a substance that I'd like topublish the view in Marmoset. The substance has a few bitmaps that were baked for use with damage generators, etc etc. I've messed with the bitmap compression settings and I can't get anything that looks good, unless it'd set on raw. If I have it set on raw, the published sbsar is 166 mb.… -
[solved] Transform 2D node not tiling
Hey All, Teaching myself some substance (killer program) and following along with one of Allegorithmics tutorials. At around this time in the vid he throws a 2D transform on a clouds and talks about tiling. Now, it tiles within the initial 0-1 square fine, but if you mash space and look at the tiling when the texture is… -
Solved: SUITE 2.2.1 failure to launch
I upgraded from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and since then SUITE hasn't worked. Nothing appears to happen when I launch the suite, nothing in Task Manager, but in Process Explorer I can see the Suite sitting there doing nothing. If I use Process Explorer to kill the process nothing happens, trying to kill it again gives me an "Access… -
[Mel] Rotate custom pivot to be aligned to world axes -solved
Hey Guys, I am trying to make my maya mirroring a little bit smarter. If I am in object transform mode it should mirror the object based on my pivot point's orientation, not just its position Even if there are no transforms on the object anymore. I need to work with the manipPivot orientation, to align my object to a world…
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