This will work only if the pivot location is at center mass... Unfortunately, if the pivot point has been custom-positioned, this won't work. You can paste the following MEL script into a shelf button which will create a Locator at your selected object's pivot location. From there, you can snap joints and anything else to…
Hey Vailias thanks so much again for your in depth explanations. Technical stuff has always caught my interest and it's great you're willing to take the time share your knowledge. I have some more follow up questions :) Ok, generally speaking 8bpc RGBA image data is 0-1. A Normal map is 0-1 8pbc RGB after I'm done with it…
Hello all! I am trying to figure out a smart way of making LOD versions of an object composed of multiple and repeated geometry, without affecting the lightmap UV channelin. So, I basically want to make sure that I do not get any overlapping UV's in the lightmap UV channel. I'm using Maya 2016. As an example, I was…
Hello, guys. I have very specific task to match texel on my mode to be equal to 1024px/m and 2048 res textures. And here I have this arch like form, when Im set texel in Maya to 1024 for this UV shell its get too big for 0-1 UV space. What I should I do in this case? I really cant shrink it down bcs it will be less then…
Hi! I'm animator and VFX artist with a wide range of CG skills. Skills: Producing animations, effects and graphics. Iterative conceptualization and polishing. Solving problems of creating an emotional response in the viewer, metaphorical presentation of various principles and mechanics, representation of narrative and…
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Hello, I have MDL Half-life 1 file. Using Milkshape I converted it to a bunch of SMD files. How can I merge all this files into 1 SMD file or any other of these formats: MD2, MD3, MD5? .wysiwyg { background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-position: 0% 0%; background-color: #2c2c2c;…
Hi, There are just those days that Maya seems to screw at the middle of the night near the end of a project. This is one of those days. I have this child that do not go to the parent despite the Trans, Scale and Rot being zeroed out. Is there a way around this? You can see an illustration of the problem here:…
You could also do both a macro 0-1 UV'd bake to get an AO, color and normal and then use a couple blended tiling textures on top, blended either via vertex paint or a painted mask map based on the 0-1 UV for example like these big ruins from GoW https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2R36a I do expect that breaking that sort…