Thank you so much :), seems to be workin now, I think mabye the reason it wasn't working before was because i assigned my hdr to a polygon sphere instead of creating IBL.. not sure though?

Hi guys :),
I have a showreel to make but I am having alot of trouble rendering of this car for it.
I am trying to use the "use background" shader for the shadows but its only giving me solid black...

Im just making a basic little uv map I try to export the map using uv snapshot, but as soon as i press ok to save it maya crashes instantly... any ideas??? thanks :)

So I made some rain in my first try using particles, I was aware that particles don't show up in a render but I thought I could find a way to apply a material to the particles. But I can't... so I am...

ok now i'm making a run cycle, but I can't raise the whole character without him going all weird, lol and a run cycle with no height is lame! xD...

I also have a question on this subject, say I make a low poly head in maya and I want to import it to Zbrush to add detail how do I save it as a file type that Zbrush can read and open? Thanks!

Yay! it worked! :D now I got one more question, and I don't wanna make a new thread for it lol, I wanna model a arm (just as a practice exercise) and I am wondering if there is a way to ad vertex...

How would I go about doing that? Here is a pic to illustrate my problem:

ah ok thanks :), but I just came across another problem, when I rotate the arm joints part of the body gets kinda sucked out with it and I don't knoe why. :(

So this is my first rig, it is going pretty good but I have a problem when I try to move the knee (and ankle), what happens is the knee and leg just stretch out instead of acting like a joint.
heres...