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Do you know about Maya Wave wizard Tools?? help

Hi everyone. today I was watching the making of surfs up movie(animation movie) there they used 3d tool for maya , the tool called "Maya Wave...

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by 3danimationmaya

08-11-2007|09:24 AM

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Maya backface selection problem.

Hi everyone, it is very simple question with big headache, I'm working in project with very complicated surface, alot of selecting and moving the...

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by oldhippie_tom

09-11-2007|03:26 AM

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Particle Glows

Is there a way that I can make particles glow other than using incandescence? Thanks

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by 3dBloke

21-06-2006|02:51 PM

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Gloomy

How would I make a really gloomy looking atmosphere? I've got a scene with an abandoned laboratory, with lots of high tech, rusting equipment in the...

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by 3dBloke

23-06-2006|06:38 PM

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Shadows

Is there a way to blur shadows so you don't get such hard edges? Thanks.

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by Joopson

26-06-2006|05:53 PM

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Particle Problem

I have a particle trail in my scene. I'm using cloud particles, and have linked up colour, opacity and incandescence to ramps, so they change over...

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by 3dBloke

05-07-2006|03:37 PM

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Expressions

I have created a gun which fires particles (1 every second), and I have also created a muzzle flash shape. I want to create an expression so the...

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by 3dBloke

16-03-2007|02:36 PM

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Particle render error

Hi. I've been trying to create an explosion effect using cloud particles. Everything is fine, except for at the end of its lifetime each particle...

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by 3dBloke

09-09-2007|07:37 PM

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but we were still talking about it

I don't know why you just closed the thread. I checked 3dbuzz's site and I guess you have to pay for their stuff too. So I guess everyone is going...

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by 3dbuzz

13-02-2003|09:55 PM

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found a cool site to share

long time no post but I found a cool site for animators yournexttee.com I came across it when I was looking for a phong tutorial and they had a...

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by SuperTrooper

21-04-2005|11:16 PM

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Maya 2008

Anyone heard about some of the new features on Maya 2008?

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by 3DCrakin

10-12-2007|07:18 AM

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Slugish Camera Movement

I have had this problem more than once. It seems as if when I import an image on the front or side views that the camera movement becomes very, very,...

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by AnthonyCg

12-12-2007|06:44 AM

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plug-ins

I don't have any idea about plug-ins in Maya............ which plug-ins are most useful in Maya?

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by 3ddon

08-07-2009|02:40 AM

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quadrangulate problem

I'm new 2 Maya, My faculty gave me a male body model 2 practice unwrapping in Maya. It is in .obj format.........when I open d file it shows all d...

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by 3ddon

02-07-2009|11:54 AM

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how 2 attach file here

in this forum i'm attaching a zip file as reply to a question........ but it does not appearing in a reply.......... but my words appearing there?...

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by 3ddon

21-05-2009|06:57 PM

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export animation..........?

Hi,after a long time I'm asking you a doubt guys....... now I'm learning a,b,c,d s in animation. today I modeled and animated a fan,I...

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by 3ddon

02-11-2009|12:17 PM

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texturing problem....

Hi all....... I modeled a computer lab,when I'm learning modeling(not textured),now I want to texture the scene,there are no.of copies of so many ...

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by 3ddon

05-11-2009|03:31 PM

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How to copy and reverse keys? | Page: 1 2

I'm animating a fan(switch on the fan,running,switch off) for this I want to copy and reverse keys,which set at starting,because fan starting and...

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by artbun

06-11-2017|04:33 AM

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rigging doubt

shell we mirror the bones with iks,controles of one side to another?

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by 3ddon

17-05-2010|04:37 PM

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Email Notification

I'm not getting the Email Notification for the threads I replied,even I checked the email notification option. what happen?

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by I-Iybrid

06-08-2010|12:23 PM

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wire tool

Hello all, after a long time I'm asking you a doubt. Please let me know how to apply wire tool in 'create deformers' menu in maya....., What are...

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by 3ddon

25-02-2012|03:44 PM

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feathers don't fly

when I paint feathers on my bird creature and animate the bird the feathers that I created in Paint Effects don't follow. Yikes. any body can he-ep...

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by arran

04-02-2007|03:52 AM

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nurbs to polygon conversion

Seems to me the nurbs to polygon conversion is used quite commonly in the tutorials. I cannot figure out the different options that are available in...

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by enhzflep

03-12-2006|04:30 PM

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how to keep my uvs in uv editor

each time I perform a new planar map and send them to the uv editor I get a new set of uv's and lose, or can no longer see the old uvs. This doesn't...

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by 3deeder

18-03-2007|02:50 PM

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render globals and video mach

Really liked Michael McKinley's render global videos. Anyway, I saved a movie as an MPEG to a folder and it plays as a video without any trouble. The...

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by 3deeder

13-05-2007|01:14 PM

Replies: 1