Heyya, I'm trying to model a curved ceiling. I did a serious bevel on all corners except floor and I got 2 rows of mystery ploys I had to remove. 1. How to select in chunks like in 3ds max i could select an edge, tell the program to ring, then i can convert edges to faces, boom=done. is there a maya equivalent to this…
So i've been working on a 3D ui mockup using some simple planes and a texture atlas when i ran into this issue. All the sudden my uv's became all distorted, but only in the viewport. See the attached image for more details. It works fine in engine and the uv's look fine in the UV editor, so it must be something with the…
Hi how do you combine 2 UV sets in Maya in my case I wanna combine 1 and 2 UV set. Wwould be great if you can make a small tutorial. someone suggested this method on other forum but I don't get it. Select the uvs you want to merge over and go to Create UVs - Copy UVs to UV set - Select the uv set you want to merge with. If…
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a script to run on startup that will import an fbx for me. I've got my mel script, it's sourced in userSetup.mel But it wont load the FBX. Isntead I get an error: // Error: file: C:/Users/Name/Documents/maya/2018LT/scripts/importFBX.mel line 1: Cannot find procedure "FBXImport". // The Mel…
I made a couple of animations in maya using the materials and stuff and I'd like to make a sprite sheet out of them so that I can put them in Unity. Here you have an example of an older effect I was working on(Download required): http://diederikv.com/Test_01.avi Now what I am trying to do is put it on a plane an render it…
Hello. Often times when Im playing with new shaders and rendering settings my comp starts rendering and the things takes waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long and wont let go of maya, leaving my renderview with a black screen as it does its thing. I just want to stop the render and change the settings on the shader, so i…
Hello! I need help! I am trying to make a wireframe render of my model with the playblast in maya... The thing I wanna do is to overlay (with ps) the wireframe once I have done it to show the topology work... But the playblast is not working!! Damn the result is a weird white outline.. dunno where the wireframe gone! This…
we're baking from a rigged skeleton to fk keys in maya, but the curves are doing some crazy stuff- sections are jumping 90 or 180 degrees then continuing as normal, resulting in really fragmented curves. with a key every frame it looks ok because the bones rotation all counteract eathother, but when the curves are…
Hi, i am new user of arnold (just started learning it) and also new user of maya (i was mostly doing everything in 3ds max before). But now im expanding my software/tools arsenal. So, which software of these 2 mentioned is better to render when it comes to realistic skin and characters ? the same? not that important ? or…
To Maya gurus out there. is it possible to convert cubic curves to linear curves while keeping the cvs intact. Without changing the positions of the cvs? (solved) Solution is to use rebuild curve with Uniform, linear, cvs check on. There are occasions that it didnt work perfectly, but it wokrs 90% of the time.