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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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Newbie question: adding a back view

I just got Maya 5 PLE and am attempting to model a car. I added the three default views (top, side, front) but can't see how to add the back view. ...

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by Patrickk

17-09-2013|04:42 AM

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Boolean Bug

Hmm, when trying to boolean 2 polygon objects -- they both disappear be it difference, union, or intersect. I know this is a very short question......

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by justajames

11-01-2006|01:11 PM

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Text

Hey guys, how is the new year feeling till now? I have some problems with extruding text in maya. Does someone know a good tutorial, or how i can...

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by Jaroehl

20-01-2006|01:46 PM

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How to creat a simple skin model

I'm a newbie. I've project to creat a simple skin model with 3-layers sturcture. Someone can tell me what skill should be used to achive this aim?...

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by swankymonkey

26-12-2005|11:48 PM

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mayatutorials.de - On Ebay you can put your bid for the domain.

Hello I´m the owner of the following Domain www.mayatutorials.de Since I decided in the course of my studies against 3D-Development, I would...

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by Shadeblade

21-12-2005|06:53 PM

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Maya to Max conversion?

Hey, just wondering what the best way to convert Maya files to 3dStudio max files is. I get alot of different answers, and was wondering what the...

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by MattTheMan

27-12-2005|02:20 PM

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problems importing a video as an image plain

Hello. I have a quick question. I'm having problems importing a video as an image plain. I get the error (unable to load ) I'm using Maya 6.o and...

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by gster123

10-01-2006|05:43 PM

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How do i make a HELIX spline.

Hi there. I did a keyword search for HELIX and it came up with one answer. MAYA 7 has a HELIX tool. I have Maya 6.5. Can someone please point me...

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by MattTheMan

28-12-2005|09:23 PM

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UV projecting

Hi, could some one plese tell me how to you "lock" the projection so that polys have the same colour when an object is animated. Thanks, Dave.

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by Davebate

29-12-2005|08:16 PM

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Paint effects and Mental Ray

I noticed I can't render paint effects with Mental Ray (am I wrong?) I figured out a simple solution: to convert the paint effects into a poly...

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by edoplaza

07-01-2006|01:03 AM

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Starting out in Maya

Hey What would be the best starting point for me, a total n00b, wanting to learn modeling and animation in Maya? :) The only thing I have that...

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by netfrost

10-01-2006|03:14 PM

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Short CGI film.

Here's a very cool short CGI Film I found, done with Max 5.1 and Renderman. Some of you may have seen it allready. linkage

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by bleednose

15-01-2006|05:10 AM

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how 2 create this material + freebie for you

In this picture you can see that the objects have a very glossy finish and are also highly reflective. How can i create a shader/material like this?...

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by stickyhead

13-01-2006|01:10 AM

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Whats first?

What would you want to do first after you finished the model. Rigging or Textureing first?

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by daffas

20-01-2006|09:08 PM

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Texturing a Tennis Ball - Fuzzy

I have successfully modeled and textured a Tennis ball, but I'm missing the Fuzz on it. Could somebody help my with easiest way to create the Fuzz?...

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by aduguay

13-01-2006|03:34 AM

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UV mapping hands

How do you guys UV map hands? Im using maya but all the planar, cylindical etc seem to make a mess of it or distort it with the planar map. Auto...

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by jhubbard

13-01-2006|11:22 PM

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Adding MEL Scripts

I've just downloaded from SM the Xray toggle script. I have copied the *.mel into program files/alias/maya... /scripts along with the other mel files...

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by j5ive

19-01-2006|10:33 AM

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Flatteing a shape of a ball from an image

Hi there all, I found an image that has all of the 16 billard balls and I would like to flatten them so that they can fit within the unwrapped uv's...

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by gster123

21-01-2006|11:36 AM

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starfighter design: need crits

im currently design a star fighter and i need some c & c before i go and modle it i know the main body needs work but im not sure what to do

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by elephantinc

21-04-2008|03:23 PM

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render maya to avi movie

trying to render a small animation into avi movie.......the animation plays in maya 7 but only captures one frame when rendered ( AVI file ) ...

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by playbox

01-11-2009|03:13 PM

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which 600dollar card

So as its two days to pay day decided to spoil myself with a yummy graphics card and im not willing to go above 600 usd i was thinking of a geforce...

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by gster123

23-08-2010|08:30 AM

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Non Standard Polygons

I'm trying to get into game asset creating, but it's proving to be a daunting task. Are there any good sources of free information out there? ...

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by jeremybenson10

15-10-2011|11:37 PM

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A newbie needs help with cameras.

So I need help on a few things involving cameras. My assignment was to use our plane that we modeled with poly's and animate it on a motion path(used...

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by BlazednSleepy

12-10-2011|04:00 AM

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Quick way to find tris and ngons?

Okay so try as hard as I might I still end up with tris and multi ngons after hours of modeling trying my best to avoid them. I know I will get...

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