So I'm getting a annoying problem with Maya, it wont save my settings. I have everything setup like my grid and shelves but if I restart Maya it all goes away. The only way I could save my shelf settings is with a command, does anyone know how to fix this? Help would really be appreciated. Also one thing when I do…
Hey the issue is simple and menial but would be nice to get fixed. Upon re-rendering the project with new maps, the brightness settings applied to my masks are set back to default. To clarify I have a group which is masked to one of my material IDs I change the material ID settings in the dynamask editor, specifically the…
Working on a free quick and dirty normal map tool for Photoshop. (it's free, and yes I'm very proud of the name) justbenormal800×800 263 KB Features * Normal Map Creation * Normal Map Combine * Normal Map Utils like Converting/Flipping * Height to Normal and Normal to Height * Presets Just select a layer, tweak your…
Yeah I wish it was still the same today with the gaming industry. It’s sounds like you had a blast. I still make games at home and I guess I’m still hoping it will get better some day. I’m working on that portfolio site. Thanks for sharing the link! Could I get a job like doing prop art with a decent portfolio? Is the…
In my sketches, I'm trying to do some quick projects, but I like to see them through to the end. I hate not finishing my projects, so I like to do small things sometimes that don't require dozens of steps to complete. Sometimes I just want to make a pretty render with good lighting, experimenting. I like those things.…
I figured this out recently for our studio, wrote up the process. Works great for us... ============ 1. Don't do this until your monitor(s) have been on for at least 1 hour. 2. Reset the display driver gamma control. Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > GeForce tab > Color Correction > Restore Defaults. Repeat for…
Thanks, yeah was thinking the same after I posted. Have the lighting as a scene, then each mesh set and then just reference them in. Then can batch render the shots.
I'm looking for a way to easily shift existing uv sets up and down in the hierarchy, anyone got a custom tool to do this? I've been doing this for years by creating a empty sets and copy pasting the uv's I want into them but this seems very archaic. I see Maya now has a uv set manager built in which also does not support…
hey folks, I am currently teaching myself in character rigging while working on an educational project. So far I’ve been following the official character rigging tutorial from the maya learning channel on youtube. See the list of videos included in the tutorial here. Now it comes to the part where I want to create joints…
Hi, I've been working on a game for the past 3 years and tried to come up with innovative techniques throughout production to increase quality without tanking dev time. I think one of the biggest achievements was managing to create a modular set of cliffs that were reused across multiple biomes and served as the core for…