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Animating a train on a path

Hello Typically my work revolves around modeling but I'm trying out a new project just for fun and I wanted to toss this question out to...

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by lauris47

01-01-2015|02:54 PM

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How can we do uninterrupted loops? (Continuous animation without slowdown)

Hello. I made some animations. but when I play them, they are starting slowly and fast on middle and they slow down at the and. This is problem for...

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by ozelgoktug

26-12-2014|09:44 PM

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Blendshape problem

Hi Everybody, As an ex Softimage user trying to be comfortable within Maya, I came across into a strange problem that I think it is related to the...

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by gaboraa

15-12-2014|03:24 PM

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Animation shifts on X axis!!!

Hi Everybody, First of all, I'm quite new to modelling and animation but already watched tons of tutorials :) I modeled a Mechwarrior and animated...

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by longliveboy

11-12-2014|05:54 PM

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FK <=> IK Switch

Ok, I have a rig that is almost done. I'm learning by Carlo Sansonetti tutorial. I have FK/IK switch feature in my rig that is working fine. But...

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by zzz7net

10-12-2014|03:20 AM

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Maya 2015 Infinity Animation Bug

So i tried creating a simple animation of a cube and then having it rotate for infinite. However in Maya 2015 this doesnt work. The infinity curve...

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by ColdZer0

09-12-2014|01:41 AM

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Rigging head to rigged body?

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to put rig head into the rigged body? Please need some basic help, how to unrig joints. Digital tutors...

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by kapow1

02-12-2014|06:27 AM

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Have controls control each other without cycle?

I saw this video on youtube where there's a chain in IK mode, with parented controls that in turn control a group above the IK control. This lets you...

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by Neo conker

02-12-2014|04:04 AM

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How to duplicate a rig properly

Hello everyone, I am trying to duplicate a rigged character in my scene, but I see that the duplicated body is not binded to the duplicated...

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by Cath

29-11-2014|01:41 PM

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Using curve to control a joint

First sorry for my terrible English I assign some curve to my model joints and create a exact hierarchy in outliner. It's worked perfectly but after...

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by hossein361224

24-11-2014|06:54 PM

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Batch rendering animations to sprites from cardinal directions

I'm working on a sprite-based project and have a few hundred Maya files, each containing a short character animation. What I need is an easy way...

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by bloatse

12-11-2014|03:19 AM

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Switching an Objects Parent via Driven Keys

Hallo, I have a rig built of 2 meshes. One is the main mesh of the creature and the other is a neck frill (activated by a blend shape) similar to...

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by Jakob1105

10-11-2014|03:22 AM

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cluster deformer problem (normal flipped)

I am trying to simulate paper folding using cluster deformer. It is a simple setup. At first I applied a diagonal fold to my mesh with less than...

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by muonium

07-11-2014|05:46 PM

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change weight using rotate

hi everyone i want to change parent constraint weight when for example rotate x change from negative to positive and i want change weight from 0 to...

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by tx512

25-10-2014|07:18 PM

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Blend Shapes and Skeleton Rigs

Hi, I've got a question that I'm hoping there's a simple answer to. Lets say for the sake of argument that I'm building a Dilophosaurus model...

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by Jakob1105

23-10-2014|05:45 PM

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Bend only a part of object (tail)

Hello, I have made a rig for a object, for over a half of object. I used FK as it is in that tutorial: Creating an FK Tail Rig in Maya on Vimeo...

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by BAD COMMAND

03-10-2014|05:22 PM

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2 if statements in 1

How can I do this through nodes or an expression? This is for a rig. If "x" is equal to or greater then y and if "z" is equal to or greater then...

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by stwert

24-09-2014|04:02 PM

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IK handle "smooth" rotation

So I want to achieve the same effect as this dude has achieved with his joints: http://i59.tinypic.com/1408ygo.png I realised from messing around...

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by Skalman

22-09-2014|08:40 PM

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Issues with Order of Deformation and Skinning

So I recently offered to help a fellow student with his senior film rig and I've been facing issues with previous work which was done on the file....

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by thebooface

07-09-2014|10:47 PM

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Animated sweep and rendering the construction

Hi Folks A long time we see. I am trying to animate an "animated sweep", meaning, I would like the source of my object be rendered frame by frame...

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by fransua

25-08-2014|11:34 AM

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Rig help needed!

Hello all, I have run into a problem that I cannot seem to fix. I am working with a rig and model created before I started this job so it has...

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by NextDesign

19-08-2014|07:54 PM

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Maya '14: Exporting a deformation to FBX

I know that the only deformers that Maya can seamlessly export to FBX are skinclusters (from traditional joint binding) and blendshapes. Apparently,...

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by AviKohl3D

18-08-2014|10:18 PM

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Rig/Bone Edit Amount

So ive got this rig that i created it for a full human a while ago. However instead of redoing the rig and skinning with the mesh, how can i delete...

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by KHM3dia

18-08-2014|03:36 PM

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2 Joint groups for same object

Ok, so i have finished my joint-setup, and im happy with it. Now i noticed there's no way that i can move this. as you can see in my images this is...

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by Skalman

13-08-2014|12:05 AM

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Skeleton structure

Hi ! I actually work animations for a little game. I bought on unity assets store a package (props animations) with multiples animations in FBX...

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by Uggy

11-08-2014|09:31 AM