Have you done a google search, im not really a vfx/particle guy at the moment and others could probably help more than me but i did i quick search on google 'particles emmiting from object' and 'ring of fire particles in maya' pretty simple. These are two of the search results; http://www.cgshelf.com/tutorials_ringfire.php…
Hey guys I am having a huge problem with weight painting in maya. On certain joints, when i paint black to remove any influence on the vertices, one of the verticies will snap straight down to the centre of the grid (0,0,0) and does not react to anything but a pure white value (in which it goes back to its normal position)…
Hey there, I've been struggling to convert to Maya in work recently and have a very specific question I couldn't find an answer to while searching. I''m trying to come up with a good way to do a corrective blendshape, but can't figure out how to work on a live example of the final look. At the moment I am applying three…
Okay, so question time. I have the technical skills of a brick, so please bear with me. I'm currently heading up an RPG project and we're trying to get a tech demo put together. The game is being built on Unity and I've got someone willing to do a quick grayscale conversion of the first dungeon map so we have a rough…
Hi All I`ve been given a task to convert a maya game environment (from PS3) into unity (just the artwork). I have all the textures in dds and also have exr lightmaps created for the PS3 already. Can anyone give me an idea how difficult it would be to convert for someone who hasnt used Unity before. Would be nice if I can…
Hi! I'd like to introduce a new tool for Maya that I've recently soft launched - BroRenamer! It's an advanced and flexible renaming tool that should be able to handle almost any renaming task. I would also love to hear your feedback to improve it further. You can take a look at it's UI and documentation here:…
SOLVED - if you hold CTRL while doing the change component RMB gesture, it won't select a new object In Maya, if you have Object A selected and then do a RMB gesture to change component selection, any other object that is under the cursor will become selected. Is there a way to disable this so that component mode is…
if you do this your going to lose out on a lot of what makes maya great, since right click on it;s own and with modifers keys is a huge part of mayas workflow with marking menues. you should really learn about the app first than customize once you got a good understanding of it workflow.
Hi guys, i would like to know how to extrude in maya by keeping planar topology. i can' t find any options that match what i want : basically i want that the edge that are in blue, stay align with the planar face at the origine of the extrude. thanks for your lights. cheers E
So when I am setting up my prop for an explosion bake, I will freeze my transformations and center my pivots.. But when I select both my meshes to move them, they go off in different directions. As if they both have different UP axis or something. My hipoly model will have Z pointing up while my lopoly will have y. Has…