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1. Custom Default Textures in Maya?

   

   Topic by David Somers · Jan 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hello fellow Polycounters! So this strikes me as a very simple question I somehow complicated beyond belief. All I wanted was to add in the old noIcon.pic from Softimage as an optional Hypershade 2D Texture list. I recently made the transition over (after around ten yrs of Softimage) and I just wanted easy access to my old…

2. Re: Custom Default Textures in Maya?

   

   Reply by David Somers · Jan 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   Ah yeah, I'm in LT so I might be feeling some of those limitations as well. Just seems strange that there wouldn't be a default folder in the install that I could slap this in.

3. Re: Custom Default Textures in Maya?

   

   Reply by sprunghunt · Jan 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   All the default images are stored in the /program files/maya 2018/ folder in various subfolders. However I think the UV checker texture is actually a procedural shader. So you can't just swap it for a texture. You can change some of the values for the checker pattern by clicking on the options square next to checker map…

4. Re: Custom Default Textures in Maya?

   

   Reply by oglu · Jan 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   I have no idea if there is a way to hack the UV editor. But i use the RenderSetup todo somehting similar. I have saved a checker Shader as preset.