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Substance Painter

In this start to finish texturing project within Substance Painter we cover all the techniques you need to texture the robot character.

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using bitmap references

:banana: Hi there! I want to build a car in Maya Unltd. - am a COMPLETE beginner with basic knowledge (with LOADS of books...!) but I need to...

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by MASTERMO

31-10-2002|06:01 PM

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HELP! Self-taught 3d hiccups....

:banana: hey guys/gals self-teaching 3d here! (yep, it IS hard but fun!) I have a book of tutorials which is really great but is for Maya 4...

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by natz

19-11-2002|07:59 AM

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duplicating for car model

:confused: hi! can anyone help? I am fairly new to Maya and am doing the Polygon Audi TT tutorial from Michael McKinley, have finally done half...

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by natz

03-03-2003|05:07 PM

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mirror query & career suggestions..

:bgreen: Hi all! I have made half of an Audit TT in polygons, and mirrored it, but the mirrored half is just a little "blockier" than the...

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by natz

04-03-2003|07:38 AM

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maya 5 tuts -

:beer: :yipee: hey all! new-ish to maya bod here! can anyone advise me where i can get some good CPS tutorials?(yes, have just download...

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by drknow

11-08-2003|12:17 AM

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cps help needed

hey all! new-ish to maya bod here! can anyone advise me where i can get some good CPS tutorials?(yes, have just download yours here!) Or even...

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by caligraphics

11-08-2003|07:23 AM

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need some help creating an underwater scene

hi,i want to make just some fish swimming underwater .i dont find a good underwater shader and i dontknow how to make the effects left by the fish on...

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by nausikaa

12-07-2005|06:19 PM

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Poll: how do i get a good 3d animation program for my computer?

:headbang: hi i have been looking and looking for a program but i can't find one! i am only 12 and have very high wants for a 3d animation program....

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by dannyngan

22-01-2006|08:40 PM

Replies: 10

Duplicate an object around another?

hey im new to maya. how can i duplicate an object a few times around another object. for example, if i have a cilinder, how would i make a row of...

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by mrbozzo

28-09-2006|05:37 PM

Replies: 3

dynamic rigid bodies question

I have a penguin in the air. I have the animation set so that a passive plunger becomes active and falls on the penguin from above. right now the...

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by mr pix.

24-10-2006|04:10 AM

Replies: 5

Shadow Problem

hey i have this penguin as a character. i also have a white plane as the floor and i have the background white. I have a directional light above...

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by NeoStrider

08-11-2006|06:46 AM

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manipulators changed

while using maya the move/rotate/scale manipulators changed. the lines are now extending to infinity. they also aren't working properly. how can i...

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by NeoStrider

28-11-2006|07:04 PM

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filling hole in NURBS

hey im making an ashtray. I used the subtract tool with some cylinders to create the given shape. now i want to fill the wholes it created. when i...

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by Falott

19-02-2007|11:37 PM

Replies: 1

tutorial advice

Hi I am new to this site and need some advice before i buy some tutorials. I want to learn how to create good environment models for games (to...

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by Jay

27-01-2011|09:34 PM

Replies: 1

How do you do this in Maya?

Dear experienced Maya users! After years of work with mostly technical 3D-software I've finally switched to Maya and am now learning Maya...

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by TheElement

11-08-2005|10:12 PM

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Banging head on desk for three days

I am just learning Maya, on the 2013 student version for Mac. I am trying to use mental ray, but I can’t find it. It doesn’t show up in the tab of...

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by Tubasatan

16-04-2013|06:29 PM

Replies: 9

Export Texture as PNG

I am trying to bring a model into an AR program called Aurasma. It requires the texture be a png. I have sculpted a polygon model and then I lit it...

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by lorinarel

29-03-2014|02:02 AM

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Exporting as Collada with lights

I need to export a model from Maya as a dae, but when I do so I get the following error message: The plug-in does not support the following light...

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by NeBu6

29-03-2014|02:23 AM

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Ambient Occlusion

I have Maya 2011. I want to render a scene with ambient occlusion but I want to have Maya apply/combine the ambient occlusion layer instead of doing...

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by anasasis

04-05-2010|01:20 AM

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What is wrong with this Porsche?

Hi, I have a black Porsche model, which I am trying to render it using mental ray in Maya 2011. I'm placing it with Sun and Sky created in mental...

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by Gen

05-05-2010|02:45 AM

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Will Nvidia Quadro speed up mental ray? | Page: 1 2

Hi, I am thinking of buying an Nvidia Quadro 5800 card (or later model if released). So I was wondering, will this card speed up my mental ray...

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by murambi

07-05-2010|09:08 AM

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Irradiance Particles and refraction problem.

I'm rendering a scene with a wine glass and a square glass in a room. I'm using Irradiance Particles + FG + Importons in Maya 2014. Why am I getting...

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by David

04-06-2013|11:56 AM

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Error in opening video fiels

Can any one help in viewing video fiels.I m facing problem in opening them.I have codec(divx) also.Error is corrut file.This is happening with every...

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by kbrown

15-01-2003|07:32 PM

Replies: 1

help with rendering.

hi, just a quick q. how to get matte/plastic (dont knw what it's called) effect in maya?...coz i love watching 'beware the batman' and 'starwars...

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by Skalman

24-11-2014|09:31 PM

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Split 2048 square plane into 16 exactly 512 planes?

So, I have an (modeled) plane that is 2048x2048 and I want it to magically be extracted into multiple 512 planes. The problem is, eyeballing it with...

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by negativecapability

11-05-2013|02:59 PM

Replies: 13