I'm also a bit new to Maya's UV editor (2016), and I had this problem. Like peanut said, it's probably because you're not selecting the UV shell the right way. The way I fix it is to select a vert inside my shell, Ctrl+Right click To UV>To UV, then Ctrl+Right click To Shell. The weird thing is that sometimes I just right…
Gotta give credit to Blender. I bought into the misconception that Blender was "inferior", and while that may have been true in the beginning, the gap between it and other 3D apps is diminishing. Like this short looks just as good (or perhaps better) than the Pixar stuff and ordinary people might not even tell the…
yea the software is amazing and the normal map to cavity is quite the time saver. as for specs, here they are: CPU: i7 3930k GPU: AMD Firepro W7000 4gb vram RAM: 32GB OS: windows 7 64bit i am running certified drivers for Firepro which is version 9.3.3.0 and works great for all Autodesk apps and things like UDK, Cryengine…
I'm having a similar problem with dx shaders (3 point and Xoliul) and texture resolution. I can't get it to display at the correct resolution, and I havent changed any settings. Ive changed the driver back and forth and made sure "match bitmap size" is checked (as well as the largest setting selected). My textures are all…
Haha it doesn't work because Autodesk forum broke the formating. How clever. Should be around that, not that i'm a maxscript pro. theObj=$Edgs= polyop.GetEdgeSelection theObj as arrayif Edgs.count==2 do( EdgA=PolyOp.getEdgeVerts theObj Edgs[1]EdgB=PolyOp.getEdgeVerts theObj Edgs[2]if EdgA[2]==EdgB[1] do (theObj.CreateFace…
I believe Substance and 3D-Coat will be able to be transferred over. But always ask the companies support team first. ZBrush is a different issue, my friend went through hell trying to get them to transfer his student license (also Mac -> Windows). I believe they caved after a while, but it took some serious stressing on…
It really sucks that Maya LT doesn't have Python support :( MEL is indeed quite the "cheap" programming language, wouldn't recommend it for anything too complex (unless,like me, you're into self pain infliction). I've gotten used to the global procedure workflow of it. Just always make sure that your procedure has a very…
I'll look into it, thank you very much! Regarding shameful noobish questions... I'm trying to install a new plugin but every time this message appears: "Cannot create file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2010/UI\Icons\Thumbs.db - access denied" and the installation stops. I tried turning off Kaspersky, changing folder…
Free 3D modeling software: Blender (official builds) or from Graphicall (newer "unofficial" builds) Voidworld (development thread here on Polycount where you can get the latest builds) Wings Sculptris Meshmixer Non-free but great value for what you get: Silo 3DCoat Free for academic use (so you can't sell a game using…
which 3dsmax version are you using? xoliul only supports up to 2012 as autodesk messed with the tangents in later versions. That said, not sure about versions 2013+, but below the max renderer isn't synced with the viewport to preview the normalmaps. Yeah awesome, right? So you have no chance to make it look good inside…