I'm a little confused about what you're asking here, maybe it's a difference in how you and i work. Personally I only use F8 when I want to work on multiple objects in component mode. To move between modes, I use the standard right click marking menu in a quick snap motion. For example, I'm in vertex mode on object A, and…
I am trying to teach myself how to script with Maya. I am starting with MEL and I am having problems with a more complex situation. I am trying to select all objects and delete them from the scene except for two objects that can be found on every scene. Those two objects can be found together on the same scene or…
No Gimbal Lock...this happens, when you scaled the parent object non uniformly on Object Level. Don't ever do this...if you want to scale, go into Element or Vertex Subobject, select everything and scale that. If you absolutely have to scale on object level (don't know any reason for that...) then make sure the object is…
Hi, im building a portfolio atm with mainly hard, non-deformer objects like guns and such. I've always rendered my normalmaps in tangent space, well, cuz that's what everyone else is doing... But lately when pushing normals to the limit I've started to see alot of advantages with object space(such as no sharp…
I am having an issue with maya that when my persp camera is placed near an object it cannot select that object and instead selects an object behind it. It works however if there are no other objects behind it. This is a problem though when working on small detail meshes. The problem is resolved when I enable camera based…
Hi, I want to bake in 3d Max and vray a lightmap of all the objects of the scene, (a total of 438 ). But I couldn't imagine that it would be such a headache.. The first problem I find is that I can't open the unwrap modifier as they are too many objects. But not only I can not make the unwrap, I also have realised that…
Im making a scene where a character is shooting a practice dummy. The dummies hat flies off then his head. The dummy then is retracted back into the floor accept; I need the hat and head to follow at first but when they are knocked off I need them to stay behind. If I just animate it it would look crappy. Usually I would…
Hi Friends! I'm having a bit of an issue getting the weight of my objects inside of Unreal to "feel right". For small props - the mass and "floatiness" of things feels pretty decent, but once they start getting much bigger (to say, the size of a barrel) it still feels lightweight and floaty. I'm noticing the same issue…
I need normals of border vertices on object A to match normals of vertices in same coordinates of object B, basically to fix the seam without affecting object B. Tried noors normal thief and it does almost that, except there is still a small split that prevents smooth shading. Interestingly enough is that in-house tool…