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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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getting info out

how can I determine a particular particle (sprites)'s texture, if the texture are assigned randomly based on a large amount of textures ? thanks

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by ragecgi

16-01-2003|06:02 PM

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Cloth driven Dynamics

Here's my problem. I want to have a cloth object drive the movement of another object. Specifically, I want to have a rope attached to a block, and...

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by Kurt

27-02-2004|06:09 AM

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Particles interacting with boolean polygons

I have a scene of a rocket launch. The rocket starts on a launch-pad, the engines fire, and off it goes - up into the sky. For effect, the rocket...

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by rich

20-01-2004|07:35 AM

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Fluids Question !

well i was thinking abt fluids effects....we can use its ocean feature to demostrate oceans.....but we always get a look like the middle of the...

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by mind_raper

26-01-2004|07:20 PM

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ocean and sky

Hi, As anyone tried the combination of an ocean and an environnment sky? I'm asking this question 'coz i have a problem with this combination:...

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by septentrio

05-02-2003|03:44 PM

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Fluid Effects Cycle Wake

Hi again - another Fluid Effects question.... Anyone knows how to cycle a wake in fluid effect. The fluid effects wake emitter has a 'cycle'...

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by Uglynakedguy

10-02-2004|12:54 PM

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Instancing Animations

When Insancing an animated object ( Like a Bat Flyiing) to a particle system (to make many Bats flying). Is there some kind of Expreddion or...

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by brentlydavis

29-11-2004|05:52 PM

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Napalm Effect

I am trying to make a Napalm effect with the huge billowing black clouds of smoke, but the catch is my producer does not want to spend the money to...

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by Razor Blade

02-11-2005|03:21 AM

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Colored Visible Lights?!! HOW!!!

how are these kinds of effects created? Im interested in creating these sorts of lighting effects and such, for example, a glowing pool of light,...

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by ragecgi

04-09-2003|09:22 PM

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Help with weird wake anomalies

I'm trying to create and animate a boat wake, but when I run the simulation and take some renders, I get widely varying and sometimes very weird...

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by inspector lee

08-06-2007|01:39 AM

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Cloth Problem

Hi, Ive made a shirt and shorts out of cloth and now Im trying to run a simulation and let them relax over the body, but they just dont work the...

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by loked

23-03-2003|11:11 AM

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Mirroring hair setup

I have created a hair system for half a head and need to mirror it over to the other side. Is there any way of doing this. Cheers, Leon

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by leonlabyk

03-06-2007|09:03 AM

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custom paint effects? DNA???

Hey all, I would like to try and make my own paint effects. specifically, I would like to try to make DNA using paint effects (like they did in the...

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by scopa

04-05-2004|08:44 AM

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lots of collision

So I need my particles collide with about a couple hundred poly objects that are all animating independently. I could assign them one by one, but...

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by Dann

20-04-2006|11:48 PM

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explosion

I can't create an explosion! Help me!:mad: :bandit:

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by Pony

02-03-2004|03:16 AM

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Technique Advice

Hey Guys, Just looking for some advice on how to approach a scene that i have in my 3d short film that i'm currently working on. In my scene I...

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by niobi xd

07-05-2005|08:02 AM

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Cloth Constraints!

They just aren't working. I select the verticies of the suspendors, then I select a locator and constrain. It then calculates as if the constrain...

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by Dinky

28-12-2005|04:42 PM

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Great cloth tutorial Kurt

Kurt, you should write tutorials for Maya. I was at a loss after reading their manual, but you put it all together for me, thanks. Sometimes I...

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by Kurt

07-06-2005|12:12 PM

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Lots of stuttering during Caching

Ok, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but every time I try to cache a simulation the playback always invariably ends up having frames where all the...

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by Gun-Kata

13-06-2004|09:57 PM

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Convert Particles to surfaces

i am new to particles, and i was wondering if there is anyway to get a surface out of particles???

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by ragecgi

11-04-2003|01:56 PM

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laser fog??

I just make a gun and try to set a laser on the front of a gun but then: 1) how to make the laser light the one of the shotgun of quake 3 2) how to...

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by ragecgi

06-09-2003|09:41 PM

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New Render Layers Video tutorial

Hey all, just pointing out my new Render Layers and Material Overrides video tutorial available HERE

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by ragecgi

14-06-2008|05:58 PM