I teach AP Calculus and Programming at a high-school in Wisconsin. I am also the defacto 'computer guy' and when anything electronic malfunctions it is my fault. Very recently my school decided to add in classes for students wishing to learn how to 'do computer graphics' and I was chosen to develop the curriculum. This is…
I don't think we have one of these threads. Sometimes you find something stupidly cool and you gotta share, right? I just discovered an option; no idea how long it's been there or how long i've ignored it. Maybe you have too? Under manipulators, "Reposition using middle mouse button" auto-snaps the gizmo to wherever you…
Hi. Hope you guys can help me with this. have spend a couple of days trying to work this out already. btw It's the first time I'm working with games (Have been using Maya for some time). I'm Currently making a racing game for a school project. I have imported my terrain mesh that i have modelled in Maya and found two…
Hey. I'm having a really tough time finding a solution to this. I'm looking for a way to skin low poly hair (for games) in Maya. Since it's for games, I can't use any sort of fancy Maya feature that I can't export, so I don't know any other way of doing hair. I also can't simply skin 100% to the head, because the hair I'm…
I already solved it while I was uploading the pics to photobucket but I still felt like posting because I don't understand what happened and this might help others if they get stuck like I did here is my mesh in maya with two sided lighting turned off, all transformations frozen, and all history deleted and here it is in…
Does anyone know where I can get a .smd exporter for Maya? Everything on google leads me here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Maya ...But the link doesn't work. Does anyone have it and can send? Or know where else I can get my hands on it??... I think its the first time a search on even cgPeers hasn't returned…
The problem im having is that I have no idea how to attach and make the shocks move and line up with each other to make it look like they are compressing and expanding while the legs move. If anyone can help me I would owe you my life because not even my college professors can tell me how. This is done in maya so I would…
You need to use a Layered shader in Maya, or some custom CGFX or HLSL -shader. Below is how you do it in Maya (instructions under the image) - but since your target is Unity I suggest skipping Maya altogether and just doing it in Unity. Green arrows in the middle: outColor -> color Yellow arrows in the middle: outAlpha ->…
Morning all. I wanted to ask what your guys opinion is regarding Maya LT? do you think that i can be a viable purchase for someone who wants to do freelance work and make and sell assets on the Unity Store and so on? i would like to get 3ds max but its way out of my budget and Maya LT is alot cheaper, but i want to know if…