I'm having some trouble around the office working with 4096 maps. One 4096 is fine, add a second 4096 and it's hella slow. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? It's just crazy to me how maya can't handle more than a few texture maps in HQR. Using Maya 2011 x64.
I'm new to modeling and I was going to use a Makehuman model as the base and then modify it in Zbrush and animate it in Maya. Are there any technical problems with MakeHuman I should be aware of before I really get into the work (I've already started modifying the face in Zbrush btw)? For example, once I'm done in Zbrush…
hey dudes, was just reading through a thread from here and didn't wanna necropost it. I've got my regular diff, nrml and spec maps setup and i just added an alpha channel for a little bit of hair on this dude. It makes the proper alpha area transparent but it also makes everything else kinda see through :( does anyone have…
Has anyone seen the Hair menu in Maya 2012? It's strangely absent. In the Plugins menu I can find and enable Fur, but not Hair. According to the 2011 Documentation it's in the Dynamic Menu Set, but in 2012 it's called nDynamics, and it's not there. Even when trying to customize the Menu Sets, the Hair Menu is nowhere to be…
Generally how secure is it using mel or python scripts for Maya? Recently started a new job as a hard surface modeler. Everything still kind of starting up and at the studio so was looking to improve the workflow to use some more modern boolean workflows. However like any studio security of assets of a concern. We're…
Hi, I just had this weird Maya viewport shading error. everytime I start a new scene, I got this kind of geometry shading in my viewport. I dont know how to get it back to normal. So now I have open my old maya files and delete everything in there and save as a new file to work with. and that works fine. Does anybody know…
I made a regular sphere and a geosphere in maya, but the problem is the geosphere is not perfectly spherical. As you can see. It is a little oblong shaped where the original cube use to be. Is there a way to fix this? Or a way to create a perfect geosphere in maya? I did find a script that let me create an Icosahedron,…
Hi, Is there an equivalent to the 3dsmax's "shapemerge" function into maya. I founded "Project curve on mesh" but it don't cut the mesh with the curve ... And i don't know why the projected curve is smoothed (i don't want that !). So after i tried the "SplitMeshWithProjectedCurve" but it don't just split the mesh with the…
My gro/shrink selection stopped workin in maya all of the sudden.. It doesnt matter if im in face, vert or edge mode or wether i try to access the tool with the shortcut keyes <> or form the edit polygons menu. Also when tryin to use it from the edit polygons menu nothin shows up in the script editor.. Its like i never…
i have new miroring weight paint problem. After mirroring one clavicle joint weight paints into another my mouth vertices are affected. Even if i lock influence maya file and video included. Please help me. here is the maya file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zpXvk1bUAmjssxZ8Bkmc1gAsL_6rZ3g4/view?usp=sharing here is…