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Free/Cheap Quality Matchmoving Software
Ok, it has been asked about enough to warrant me posting this so others interested in 3D Matchmoving may learn and benefit:) NOTE: This thread is...
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I've been asked a number of times for reference, tips, tricks, and even how to make it in the industry, but if your looking for the holy grail of...
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Xgen alembic export comes through as multiple groups
Hi, I would imagine this is a fairly common issue however I haven't been able to find any discussion about it online. Whenever I export a dense...
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Textures slides with ncloth simulation
Hello, I hope you can help me. I did an ncloth simulation of a landslide. But in some polygons the texture slides, generating a flicker in real time....
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Resizing/rescaling ncloth with character to fit scene
Hello, I have a skinned and paint-weighted my character, and then I used ncloth for the character's outfit (independent of the skinned mesh)....
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Using nCloth with nParticles
Hello, I am trying to create a simulation of falling leaves. I can apply nCloth to a poly plane, adjust the settings, and get a desired result, but...
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XGen - hair will not follow guides anymore
Hey there, okay so ever since I've began using XGen there's this same problem and I can't find out why. Only thing I can tell, is that it...
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Assign Cached MASH spheres sperate shaders to
Hello I am currently working on a project where spheres created from MASH are bouncing around. Each sphere has it's own shader. I want to bake...
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Maya Bifrost Aero Flame
I am Trying to create a flame using Bifrost Aero.When i render it,it looks blurry.I tried putting lower value in master voxel but still it gives...
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particles in a "box"
hello. i need an advice how to make following set up: i need a fix amount of particles, which should randomly fly around in a specified volume and...
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Mash attractor object not attracting
I'm using Maya 2020 and Mash Flight node to animate a school of fish. As in this tutorial by Ian Waters I've middlemouse dragged a locator to...
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how to make this wobbly dynamics ?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5x8uGmnztw/ :help: 1)i know How to do jiggle in MASH but want it to come out from surface of the sole like in this...
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copy constraint
Hi, i made a pendular and added a nail constraint and gravity. I hit play and it moves ok. Then i duplicated it a several times with "duplicate...
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Jet Flames in Maya?
Hello Simbly Maya ;) , I am working on a project using Maya 2011. There is this character with jetpacks. :help: :happy: So is there anyone who...
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bifrost aero not showing in vray frame buffer
hello i am trying to render a smoke effect with bifrost aero. the smoke shows in render when voxel size is0.4 or more. but when i use 0.3 or less it...
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MASH instancer scale
hello. i have a meadow and need to control y-scale of grass with a map. i can't figure out which MASH node can do it. best result i could achieve...
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Maya nParticles export
Hello. How can I export the sphere particles that the maya nParticles uses as FBX? I don’t want to triangulate them and turn them into one mesh, I...
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Huge rendering time with maya fluids and arnold (2018)
Hello! I'm working on a scene were a car drives on a dirty road, which creates a lot of smoke/dirt. I did it with maya fluids pretty fast, but...
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How do i animate a character with nparticle soft body?
Hi im new here. I have been having this problem, i have a fully rigged character with face expressions, and i applied soft body in the nparticle...
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maya mash strength
hello, i use maya 2018. i like to handle the y position by the offset node via texture but i allways get a soft transition between black and white....
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Throwing wine glass on a surface
Hi, I'm having trouble of a glass breaking simulation. I want my wine glass to hit a wall and break after it hits the wall. It's more like someone...
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Troubles with lattices on a dynamic car rig
Hello guys, So I tried to rig a car with dynamics, everything went well, but it seems like the latices for the wheels doesnt follow and so if I...
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Alembic imported daz models won't work as colliders
I've been following a reallusion tutorial and animating characters in iclone and exporting as alembic into Maya. Everything is working fine except...
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dangle ball on end of softbody Maya
Hey - I am trying to make a jester's hat. I need the hat to be floppy with little white balls at the end of each spikey bit. The hat is attached to...
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Simulating a Double Pendulum
I am trying to simulate the motion of a double pendulum in maya 2018, but can't figure it out. I have tried both ncloth and using a gravity field,...
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instancing emitters or secondary emission
hello. i'm wondering, if there is any way to instance particle emitters. i want to use curve flow so that created particles were replaced by...
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Converting nParticles
Hi hi! I'm new to the forum and kinda new to Maya, and I have this issue that's been irking me for the past two days. I've been modeling this...
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