@Clock: Just select your model and re-apply the shader to it. common bug in maya 2011. Make sure you have maya patched up. Havent had this in a while on maya 2012, though used to happen a lot on 2011. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17286269&linkID=9242259
note sure, may be Nvidia has an inside deal with autodesk to force professional users to buy more expensive cards because they can afford it, who knows... http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=16820654 basically all Kepler cards are not recommended for Maya. lower end quadros are also quite slow in…
something like this kind of sand movemments? http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/olivierl/olivierl0908/olivierl090800005/5421627-foot-path-in-sand-dune-to-the-beach-at-the-shore-under-a-cloudy-stormy-sky.jpg
What Anuxinamoon said. Keep practicing. You're off to a good start. If texturing is a problem you can always choose to focus on modelling and collaborate with other artists here on polycount. Having said that, there's also some texturing workflows that involve minimal painting. Check out this tutorial which I personally…
Interesting... You should try out "light position" instead of the light direction. Also maybe there are some details about what to do in such case, on the site of shader forge. If you find nothing, and the light positon doesn't help, then you can write to the creator's thread here. http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/nodes/…
Ok my solution worked for he head but , It is not very much helping for the all detail scales all around ... when I get into very fine detail I get blocky scales or non uniform looking ... I have found a very interesting tutorial where the author , that is maker of the dinosaurs in "planet dinosaur" ...…
I feel like the lightbeam could do with some less opacity/some "scattering"/have some more fallof on the edges/towards the end like in these images. http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/night-lighthouse-beam-3610373.jpg http://chadburgess.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Roosevelt-Island-Lighthouse-at-night1.jpg…