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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 29-08-2003 , 04:33 PM

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Hi... again ( i will get the hang of this...promise ;-) , i'm trying to take a uv snaphot of my well... uv map but when i try and save it it comes up with the error: invalid output format: tga ( or what ever file i have chosen to save as ) the only one that works is iff format but that won't open in photoshop.

What am i doing wrong this time user added image

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# 2 29-08-2003 , 05:38 PM

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np, ive done it not sure what was going on but i just quit maya started up again used the same proccess but this time it worked???
Damn my newbieness

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# 3 29-08-2003 , 10:23 PM

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Not sure what the problem is, but you can use this photoshop plug-in from Alias to open IFF in Photoshop.

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# 4 30-08-2003 , 01:09 PM

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Thanks dann :-)

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# 5 30-08-2003 , 01:56 PM

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which is worth getting because depth channels are only available in iff format files. So if you wanna use them in photoshop you will need that plugin user added image