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3181. Maya Normal Mapping Problem

      

      Topic by Calshatra · Jul 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

      So I was practicing making Normal Maps, and I made a high-res cube model in Z-brush. I then brought the cube into Maya and used the Transfer Maps tool. After I was done, this was the result: So I was wondering why the poly lines are showing up om the cube.

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3182. Merging two Maya scenes

      

      Topic by Lamont · Mar 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

      I am trying to merge two Maya scenes in-place. Where I import scene A into scene B and it will move items from scene A into the correct hierarchy position in scene B. Other than name-space shenanigans, what is the best way to go about this in Python? Or is there a script already that does this?

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3183. Weird Maya Viewport Issue

      

      

      Topic by Christian Cunningham · Aug 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

      So as you can see from the screenshot in the orthos I am getting some clipping, I have adjusted the far and near clip plane in the camera settings and its not fixing it, I have reset maya completely as well. Any help would be amazing, because this is really annoying.

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3184. Maya arnold rendering character newbie question - where to plug in maps?

      

      Topic by focus_method · Apr 2023 · Home› Technical Talk

      Hi guys, im new to maya when it comes to rendering with arnold and it's shaders. Where the hell to plug in maps : albedo,normal,displacement,heigh,roughness,spec ,AO, cavity ? is there any short but quality tutorial on that ?

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3185. Re: Convert copy to Instance Maya

      

      Reply by rebb · Sep 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

      Maya 2012 has "Modify > Replace Objects" that can do this. Not sure exactly in which Maya Version it was introduced tho.

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3186. icons missing on crease plus window in maya

      

      

      Topic by trinapangilinan · Jun 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

      I just installed Crease Plus 1.0 in maya 2017. It works, except that the icons on the window doesnt show. help!

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3187. Maya and smoothness

      

      Topic by ashriza · Oct 2014 · Home› 3D Art Showcase & Critiques

      I have a question! I have always been taught to model high quality and for rendering so I model based on how things look with maya smoothness -3 selected. However I have recently been learning the ins and outs of 3D Art for games and see that this isnt the case. Things are usually modelled then smooth edge or harden edge…

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3188. Re: Maya 2018 Opinions

      

      Reply by Sage · Aug 2017 · Home› General Discussion

      Maya 2017 and Maya 2018 have a been a huge improvement. It now has a lot of features that Max has, so I'm pretty happy with it. it finally does extrude with shift. It took over a decade for Autodesk to add this.

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3189. Maya 2018+ - best/correct way to bake displacement onto flat plane?

      

      

      Topic by Polynaught · Jul 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

      Hi, I've got trouble getting a usable displacement bake from Maya. introduction (you may skip it): I am used to the transfer maps tool from Maya 2010 (which we used at work). With 2017 (or even earlier) AD removed mentalRay in favor for Arnold. This means no more baking of AO maps with the transfer maps tool. So I decided…

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3190. Maya rigging arm IK problem

      

      

      Topic by stororokw · Feb 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

      I am hoping someone can explain to me why this is happening. The IK which I created from the shoulder to the wrist is rotating strangely. I have attached the maya file so someone can take a look at it.