Totally agree with you there Ror. It rocks having kids, especially being able to be aware of what's going on while it's happening. Although I think any good parents feel the same way, regardless of their occupation... I guess this industry just keeps us a bit more in tune with what childhood is all about. About that quote,…
As you might know there's a limitation in Maya that would not allow custom marking menus to be called by hotkey in undocked viewports such as the UV Editor. They fixed this for Maya 2016 but you need to reset your keyboard shortcuts for your marking menus if you copied them from previous versions. This is because the…
Ola, Let's say i have a multimaterial, with standard submaterials in it, with a diffuse texture in each of the submaterial. In the material editor, my current slot is on a diffuse bitmap node. I want to access the parent standard material from here. Not the root multimaterial. (Purpose is to rename the standard material as…
Without seeing your outliner, i cant be sure but it looks like your nurbs curve does not have an offset/parent group. You should do the transforms for the controller on its offset group, so the curve stays zeroed but its transforms are inherited from the parent group. Also with ik handles, it is always a good idea to have…
This brings back one of my earliest Christmas memories. For months I begged my parents and all my relatives for a VirtualBoy. It was all that I wanted in the world and I just knew that I would never need anything else as long as I lived. Santa was good to me that year. My parents and grandparents together managed to pool…
Once again, it's fine to let the kid kill cops and run people over, but flash a breast and the lines been crossed. I hate society. My brother works for Best Buy and he sees this crap all the time. These parents are so busy spoiling their kids that they don't question little Johnny when he wants a game. Then when they…
i'm amazed York isn't featured. Quite apart from the constant stream of knacker scum (i hate the word "chav", its been adopted to be somehow endearing) coming in on the train for stag nights and hen parties, making a pleasant night out in your own town centre next to impossible, the indigenous population are something…
Also usually the mesh parented to the armature in the outliner is a a child in the hierarchy.. here there seems to be the armature selected first and then eyeslashes in the Retopo collection afterwards (different shadess of orange).. so this means: you are weight painting on the eyeslashes.. and not the hair of the model…
Hey folks I'm learning some rigging in Maya, after picking up animation (pretty easy compared to rigging). Can't seem to figure out how to align and orient a circle (control object) to a joint. Can't seem to figure out any of the align and snap tools in maya, after scouring through the tutorials and user references in the…
While it can be expensive, 3D total's magazine is currently in the middle of an animation and rigging tutorial. I believe it's gone on for the last 3 issues, but I've found some really useful information in there. I can't share the files since that would be infringing some digital citizenship somewhere, but if you're…