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Maya Mental Ray Normal Map Problems
Maya is giving me a hard time when i try to render my normal mapped meshes in mental ray. Here are my render settings and a picture of the problem. I have my map as tangent space and it looks fine in maya hardware: -
Re: Crossing from Maya to Modo
Falkrum I too am a happy Maya to Modo convert . When using maya i always had to compromise art for the difficult restraints in mayas workflow . Im free to create in side of modo and the animations are great .I love modo . -
Best Tutorial /Book in learning UV Unwrapping in Autodesk Maya
Hello everyone ! I would like to ask you fellow artists on what's the best tutorial or book on your opinion on learning UV unwrapping. I finished college with a diploma in 3D Animation but my professor doesn't want to get asked questions and didn't even teach us more in depth about UV unwrapping. Yes he did taught us about… -
maya / mudbox workflow best practice question
When creating game assets, what is the best workflow between maya and mudbox? and example is that I want to make the lion shown here: i've been able to sculpt it out in mudbox and it looks nice, but how do i pull it back into maya and work it to be low poly? -
Maya: limit scale
I'm animating the scale of an object using MASH's Signal node. I'd like to limit the object's scale so it never drops below 1.0 - it should only grow bigger, not smaller. The 'Positive Scale' checkbox doesn't seem to apply since I'd like to never drop below 1.0 - not 0.0. I'm fairly new to Maya, so if there's another way… -
Maya Asset Browser?
So i dont know if theres something native to maya that would suit this application, but i'm currently working on a contract for a bunch of torchlight/diablo style environments and the number of assets i've created since the summer has gone through the roof to the point where its hard to manage everything. What i'm looking… -
Maya Mouth Retopology
Hello, I have question about retopology in Maya. I have been taught to sculpt a character model with open mouth but I had no idea how to close the mouth. After some time and some videos that I saw I finally found out that I need to open the mouth to sculpt inside and then I can close it in zBrush while sculpting so my… -
Maya stuck selecting random verts?
So over the course of working with Maya I have run into the same awful problem a few times where Maya will switch to some super odd selecting method where I am unable to select specific verts or specific sets of verts. Instead it will only select random verts every time I make a selection box over my model. Also when this… -
Maya to Source engine , an odyssey in impatience
Well, ive been trying to compile and import a model from maya so as to send to valve. I have encountered a few problems with the initial step of trying to convert to an SMD. I set up the SMD exporter found in the source sdk exactly as it said to. here is what is happening. Ok heres my model imported into Maya as an OBJ… -
Maya non uniform bevel on inside
Hey there! I'm new to maya, i have been trying to bevel edges but it always makes the bevel uniform inside out on a strip, is there a setting to help me getting a better flow like i showed in the photo attached, i have used max a little and it does that. thank you! (1) is what maya gives me with bevel. (2) is what i want…
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