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Re: Maya average normals averaged unintentionally
yellow means locked normals in maya - so all your normals are 'custom' guess your confused by this - so i think you should unlock normals and reset hard edges, and it will behave as expected. -
Re: Reflections on The Game Industry as a 3D Artist
Continuing from my previous post ... GenAI has also resulted in a lot of layoffs, for 2 reasons. One is companies got rid of employees in favor of using AI because they thought it would be cheaper. The other is AI ended up being more expensive than companies expected (I am not surprised) so then they got rid of more… -
Maya: Custom Time Warp using an extra animation curve
Hey guys, I had one of my students who wanted to make a "Matrix like" slow motion effect on an animation. I encouraged the student to animate in regular speed and then later add the time warp effect. So i tried using the new Animate > Scene Time Warp feature. It works well but it alters everything in your Maya scene. So if… -
Maya help with layered texture/ layered shader
So my goal is to do a very nice render of a character in Maya using mental ray. However Im dealing with some serious complications when dealing with layered textures and layered shaders. So the character that Im making is a Centaur. Meaning that He is half man half horse. However the only way that I could get this to… -
Maya Locking components, modelling toolkit help
Hey, I was looking for a better way to lock specific components in place and I ran across this on the maya help site: To lock vertices * In your scene, select the components you want to exclude from your transformation. * Select one of the transform tools. See Transform tools. * Do one of the following to lock an axis:* In… -
Re: {Maya}normal-map and an AO-question
Whilst im not a native Maya user, this is pretty much the approach to sub-d modelling. However, I find that usually a subdivision level of 2 (2 subdivides) should be fine. There are many workflows regarding the production of normal maps however expect most high polygon models to run into the hundreds of thousands. However,… -
[RIGGING] Pinning locators to verts [Maya]
Hey all, Ive started to look into facial rigging for games, and Im using a PDF by Jeremy Ernst, about his presentation at GDC. Its called "Fast and Efficient Facial Rigging in Gears of War 3". Absolutely amazing setup he used, but Im having issues duplicating it. Not surprising seeing as he works at epic and I'm just… -
Re: [Maya] can't Key multiple animation controls on my rig, can anyone figure out why? (need help fast)
I'm having same problem in both maya 2016 and 2017. If you've found a solution, I would love to know it. I've tried a few things, but i'm not experienced enough with Maya to know exactly what settings i'm changing. Thanks -
SSS radius Map Vray AL surface material (maya) question
Hi to everyone. As title; I have some question about sss radius map, exactly how did it work? The radius values in the material have a huge range, it's not like specular B/W, so how exactly could i use the color values in a radius map? I tried a black and white map, first trying to find a colour value similar to the radius… -
Maya 2016 Python: Moving frozen objects to 0,0,0 to export them.
I'm a 2nd year student at the University of Hertfordshire, and I am currently pulling my hair out because I can't seem to find a way to get my code to work. I'm creating a tool, for my coding class so it has to be in python, that will export everything in my Maya scene as FBX files that will be translated at the world…
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