Hey guys, So Ive come to a point in the rigging where the keyframes I
set, when I am transitioning between frames my mesh disappears when I click-hold-
and drag my mouse and reappears when I
let go, however I want to see how the model looks in between the key frames as I
am sliding between them, not just when I let go… I…
So I'm mainly a prop modeler, and I think they come out decent, but I have been told that a great presentation shot can make an average model look awesome. The way I usually set up my scene is to drop my mesh in the scene, set up my lights, camera, camera settings and use the ambient sky setting for the background. I…
Being forced to enter bugs into a bug database will pretty much ensure that they will be addressed and fixed. Getting up and interrupting someone to tell them about a "new bug" you just found (that actually is entered in the DB 20 times already), causes more bugs to be generated. Not documenting a bug or documenting it in…
http://www.djx.com.au/blog/customizing-maya/ I believe these settings would go into Maya.env. Via the script editor, 'Echo all commands' can be turned on to get the names/arguments for the commands you want when you click on them. (since most non-scene based info doesn't normally show up there)
Hi! I had a moment to look at the car. Assuming you don't want to do many further edits and are set on baking, I would would mainly optimize UV space to get as much out of the texture as possible. Offset and stack UVs of mirrored and repeated parts (I believe you're already doing this). Reduce size in UVs of areas that are…
I've been scrolling through my prefs and help files but I can't seem to figure out how many of you are getting those nice high res viewport textures on your models. Mine always end up looking way blurrier then they should and I can't find the "make pretty" preference. So, if anyone knows wtf Im yammering about, plz fill me…
Animators seem to be coming around a bit more and it might be helpful to have some rough guidelines that will help people get critiques. YouTube and Vimeo VS Quicktime? Why use quicktime format? You can scrub it back and forth. This is critical when trying to figure out where and what in an animation is breaking down.…
<somewordsofpraise> so, yeah... been reading this forum from-time-to-time, for answers to various problems I've stumbled upon, and often found answers without needing to ask. So keep it up everyone- you rock!</somewordsofpraise> This time though I'm finding myself stuck with no solution that I'd be happy with. I'm a…