Hey, not sure if this belongs here but for a small project the team wants a fuzzball (ball covered in fur pretty much), it's to run on a vita so the only viable method is alpha mapping and so far the best technique has been the Afro section on this tutorial as they require furry ball and what better than an afro (it's…
Hi there, I have a problem that is driving me nuts. I have to paint Vertex alpha values in Maya. My problem is that Vertex alpha 0 makes the geometry transparent which i do not want. I would like to have vertex alpha 0 displayed as white. I have mostly spherical objects and basically all verts have vertex alpha 1 so they…
Anyone have an idea about whats going on here. Im in hardware view and I threw a spot light in my scene. Random peices of geometry seem to be getting the light source...but not all surfaces. The main peices that arent are the wall of the right building and the ground. IT seems to happen to large pieces of geomtry thats the…
I have tested this rig on multiple computers. The computer that it is running on for the video has 16 GB ram and a i7 3.4 GHz. Whenever I try and rotate any of my controls it is VERY laggy. A timeglass icon appears and my CPU load increases to about 25% total. Ram stays stead and hard drive as well. Here is the video of…
Anyone ( know of/ can share ) a directX window/panel plug-in for Maya that supports "active" 3d. yer kung-fu rulez coupon: good for one custom model or script of your choosing. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea... But I have found to support 3d it is best to preview the result in 3d. That involves having to consult the…
Hi, I'm trying to paint some hair-cards on to a character model in Maya but they're all generating with a huge offset in the y axis. http://imgur.com/glTTgv4,hMglIGK,Qj5ITka,mDaUn0Y#2 I've attached some pictures to this post for clarification. The third image shows the offset that is made when I paint the hair. The others…
if for maya you can try this guy method, i found it last times when try to achieve anime style in maya with mental ray. You can use google translate the page. http://senaraff.blog.fc2.com/blog-date-201403.html
Hey, I just installed Maya 8.5 on my Home PC. When using perspective view I my viewport starts flickering and it looks like it cant update it, I have to switch to another window and back again for it to update what changes i've made, I get this issue on something as lowpoly as a cube. I've read that this is an issue on…