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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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(Kari Brown) Apache texturing - dannyUvTools questions.

Hi, I am going through the Apache helicopter tutorial and I'm looking to find out if dannyUvTools work in Maya 8.5 for Mac OSX and also to see if...

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by Jr.Who

07-12-2007|10:11 AM

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Help linking up the ocean shader, and a blin/dielectric material ?

Hi 2 all I have a question regarding the ocean shader and a dielectric shader ? Well I have a scene which will be underwater, Now I am...

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by Andy Gee

07-12-2007|06:15 AM

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Character gets deformed

Hey guys! i´ve got another problem with my animation. I created a character out of polygons and added a skeleton to him. Now I tried to animate...

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by Tobsen

05-12-2007|06:36 PM

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Greetings all...

New to forum.. Formerly a windows movie maker. Looking forward to trying my hand at Maya. Now, where to begin? This software is completely alien...

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by Damien's List

04-12-2007|04:00 AM

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audio cutting in and out | Page: 1 2

i got the video playing om my imac but the audio cuts out then cuts in again through out. anyone know why? is it something to do with audio...

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by Jr.Who

05-12-2007|04:29 PM

Replies: 28

driving me mental ray

Hi, everyone. Cool site. Haven't had a proper look around, but will soon. I recently finished modelling a fairly large scene and rendered it....

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by xgabrielx

05-12-2007|02:43 PM

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z-depth

I'm trying to render a scene in several passes, but After effects doesn't display a z channel. I've tried rendering as softimage, but no joy. (I...

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by Falott

06-12-2007|11:13 AM

Replies: 1

Binding help

Hello Im fairly new to maya been using it for about 2months, my problem is binding. Iv made a simple cartoon style guy and a great rig I made a...

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by djknucklez1

04-12-2007|08:23 AM

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lattice probs

anyone got the apache modeling tutorial? the instructor uses smoth proxy a lot, anyway, when i run a smooth operation and then add a lattice on my...

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by vallaha

04-12-2007|04:25 PM

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Making a fur texture

I have been working with maya for nearly a month now and I am currently making an anteater. i have got the basic shape, but i dont know how to go...

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by elephantinc

04-12-2007|03:00 PM

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Mirror Problem......

Hi People, i'm a very newby in maya land downloaded a traing dvd on how to make a digital human somewhere in this tutorial they mirror the...

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by Jr.Who

07-12-2007|11:52 AM

Replies: 5

lock object

Hi, I'm starting to get familiar with maya, although I have one problem that I cannot find in the documentation or by googling: how do I lock an...

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by jsprogg

04-12-2007|10:03 PM

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Hey guys!

Hi Guys, Ive just found the site and signed up. Im 20 from the UK and currently learning how to use Maya, i really want to get into 3D art for...

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by Altadena

05-12-2007|02:33 AM

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Problems that arise from lack of absolute co-ordinates

Hi, I've moaned about this before but in my current model it's a real pain. I'm making a square hole, and adding edge loops around it so it...

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by gubar

06-12-2007|09:43 AM

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Maya fur

Am I right in thinking that with maya fur you cant have a pattern on the fur, IE it all has to be one colour?

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by jsprogg

04-12-2007|09:54 PM

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HELP! PLS !

Hey !! Im new with Maya . and i seem to be doing well i think lol. but i was watching some tutorials and i see that when ppl model a character...

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by jsprogg

05-12-2007|04:17 AM

Replies: 5

Squiggly Lines

OK, I'm already having trouble. When I try to paint, I see the image I am drawing while I'm drawing it, but once I release the mouse it turns into a...

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by Damien's List

07-12-2007|10:02 PM

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Photoshop help, copying many layers to create alpha?

Hi, posted this already in a couple of photoshop forums without luck... thought I'd give it a shot here; here's the post: Hi all, I'm...

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by wokendreams

05-12-2007|08:02 PM

Replies: 5

L_Glass Shader

Does anybody know where to download the l_glass shader? I can't find it anywhere.

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by Grev_Mivlos

06-12-2007|07:28 AM

Replies: 3

How to save a screenshot?

Hi, I need to take a screenshot of an object at the origin, save that screenshot as a .jpg or .bmp, so that I can use it on a symbolButton. ...

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by Mayaniac

05-12-2007|07:42 PM

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Making light come out of a polygon

ive seen this done before but dont know how to do it, its basically making like a cube produce light only on one side of it. Anyone know how to do...

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by Weyu

06-12-2007|08:36 AM

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Changing interface colors?

how would you do this? i saw it done before. Also if u can do it, how would u restore defaults? thanks

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by AnthonyCg

06-12-2007|01:33 PM

Replies: 5

Mudbox

How do i open a maya project in Mudbox?

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by Lunnep

06-12-2007|06:15 PM

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problem with sprites

im looking at a tut on sprites.., and when laying a texture onto the lambert.., onto the sprite.., the texture on the sprite (in the view port) looks...

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