i figured out the solution, in prefrences, i set up axis to y, instead of axis z.which is where it was.

sorry dude, your idea didn't work :(

switching between maya 2009 and 2008, and vice versa, I have a rather annoying problem.

when i open the project, everything in my viewport is rotated exactly 90 on the x-axis.

this is...

just to clarify

as far as I can tell

you CAN use a 2d texture>movie as a color map

you CANNOT use 2d texture>movie as a transparency map


I have tried fiddling with the opacity PP in...

so yeh, the title pretty much sums it up,

basically my idea is to have a face appear in smoke and start speaking...

I would like to use a movie file of some sort to portray a moving image as...

Its kinda hard to explain the problem, put the attached pictures should pretty much explain everything i need fixed.

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq131/goron2000/bloodroom.jpg

here is a...

haha, pretty much, its a group project and we were struggling for ideas of artistic style so someone said tron and everyone agreed on the spot

Normals>Set vertex normal
Fixedhttp://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq131/goron2000/vertexnormal.jpg

it looks okay to me

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq131/goron2000/facenormals.jpg

that sounds like a really good idea thanks neo!

im in a lecture now so i cant try it out unfortunately:(