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Re: Painting skin weights in Maya
You could try the Component Editor on the overlapping bits. So under the Smooth Skins tab you have a table listing all the bones and verts in the model. You can type in the weights from there, or use the slider at the bottomw, which is one of my favorite tricks. You'd work that by posing a joint, grabbing the verts around… -
Re: Goat King
He's an entertaining little guy. The face lost all of the goat features in translation from concept to model. As opposed to a goat head, it appears more like a flat cartoon wolfman mask. I reckon this happened by you translating the bent forward head of the concept (as though the goat is about to ram you) to a face looking… -
Re: How do you rig a bag on a character?
Since it's just for poses, depending on the number of poses and how extreme they are, you might be better off just skinning the strap and bag to the main character skeleton, along with the body, and hand tweaking the strap geometry after you set the pose. Straps like this are kind of a pain to rig and manipulate, but Mop's… -
Re: matrix math quickie for artists
So THAT's what OpenGL does with the fourth column! I disagree on the hierarchy depth of the skeleton, since hierarchies are usually handled recursively each bone matrix would be computated only once and would require only one multiplication (local matrix multiplied with parent matrix) to do so. The root bone would still… -
Re: Ai vs GNWC (Vancouver, Canada)
They never heard of it most probably because it hasn't be around that long and maybe there aren't a lot of grads, or good grads. Anyway, if you're learning 3d skills, as someone who went to VFS, taught at VFS and a few other schools in town the best bang for your buck is Think Tank. VFS, while a solid course and a good… -
Re: My first WIP post ---The T-Rex in High Poly
Heh, dinosaurs I'm working on a model of an iguanodon just now, myself. The first thing that strikes me about this is that the whole thing looks as though it's made of a marshmallow. There's little suggestion of underlying anatomy anywhere. The proportion of the various limbs is decent in most of it, but it's lacking a… -
Re: Couple more Maya questions.
1. Don't think you can do any semi-transparent type stuff with the texture still displaying, I'll have a look more into it. To display coloured vertices, select your object and just go to Display > Polygons > Vertices ( this is done on a per object basis ), remember though, when you have selected a smooth bind, make sure… -
Clothes for a character - Best way to animate for unity?
Hello! I am thinking of playing around with unity a bit after learning how to animate in Maya. An idea i had was to just try and make a character that had 3 different types of shirt, pants and shoes that they could choose from. The modeling part is simple enough, the problem i cant solve in my head (and cant really find a… -
Maya - Dynamic hair-spline problem
Heya Polycount, I've run into this problem which I cant really find a solution to, or even a reason why it's acting like it does. What I've done is I've tried to create a dynamic hair curve to control the movement of two ears on a characters skeleton. I did manage to follow a tutorial on how to accomplish this with the… -
Artist(s) Needed For Psych Horror Game
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read this, let's begin with who I am. I'm a serious game developer and programmer with near 5 years of experience in my field. I'm currently working on a project in Unreal Engine 4, now it's time for project details. "The Damned" is a psychological horror game set in an active…
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