Hey Im encountering a problem with the normals on the edge of my mesh and I cant seem to figure out how to fix it. It renders fine using Iray in substance painter and blender cycles, but not with Arnold in Maya. Anyone know what could be causeing the black areas and how I can fix it? Apologies if this is posted in the…
Hey guys,Anyone know how to add new custom script hotkeys to Maya via python or MEL?I'm not sure what to look for.With pymel I'm trying nameCommand() but it doesn't seem to be adding to the list in the hotkey editor.
Hello all, I hope someone can help me go around a Maya Vray issue I've been having. I have a mesh where I applied a displacement map that has a lot of detail. In the material I want to create a fresnel effect, using VrayFresnel or samplerInfo, but I want it to ignore the normals that the displacement map create and taking…
This may sound kinda random, but I've been wondering for a while: is there any kind of shader for Maya that can let you see ambient occlusion in realtime while you're modeling? I ask because I've found AO to give the most information in terms of where things are relative to each other without having to do a complex…
Hey Guys, I've decompiled some Dota 2 models and rigged for anyone that wants to use it, I've used Danilo "Nilouco" Pinheiro's dpAutoRigSystem. So this rig is comprised of 3 different models that you can change freely using maya Layers. All 3 meshes utilizes the same basic rig, so any pose you do with a character instantly…
I've started learning 3d modeling in Maya and I wanted to show you my works (I had my BF help with all of them for now). I'm hoping for some feedback! I'm just doing high polys for now, after some finished models I'll try to make low polys and textures. My biggest problem is smoothing edges, and topology is giving me a bad…
Hello, I've been using Maya LT through Steam for about 4 months now, and all of the sudden my Merge Vertex Tool is causing me an issue. When I try to merge one vertex to another it shoots off into infinite space instead of merging. I Reset to Default settings. I then found that the tool works fine if I am working in…
Fact is I'm a bit desperate with this issue... I'm running windows 8 on a newly formatted & updated machine with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 660. Everything's fine except for Maya. It just keeps crashing to desktop after launch (attepmting to save blah blah) and only feedback I get from the dmp file is: Fault address: B8E68BDC in…
That shouldn't be an issue unless your work strictly prohibits 3rd party plugins. You can always append a folder to Maya's plugin path. I would find the location of the plugin, and then write a startup script or env file that adds that folder to the MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH env variable so every time you run Maya it recognizes…
Hi. I've got a task that involves a few car crashes. I'm working with Max or Maya. I have modelled my cars and I'd like to know if there are any tips, scripts or techniques to make fairly realistic crash damage on my models. Ideally I'd like to somehow set up a car to drive at an object, have it collide with it and cause…