I'm just trying to wrap my head around the use of MR lights as custom light shaders in standard maya lights.

So as I understand they are necessary when using mr shaders like parti volume and the...

Hey, you don't need to do that! but thanks for the offer. What would you do, write a mel script or could you use python? I cheated a little and used Max.

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Thankyou for all your responses. The vector to geometry function is quite cool, i've used that before, Il have another look at the displacement to geometry conversion. It isn't really complex what im...

Is it possible to edit/select faces with an inputted matte(texture). I'm basically following a tut dealing with max and the 'vol select' and wondered if there is a similar function in maya. I have...

Thanks again, il look into using that software. Ive just hidden the camera on a layer for now and I am using the imported geometry to model/animate around. ideally il want to see the image so il get...

I reckon you first need to stylize the window. I would go with something minimal for the wallpaper- not sure why its blurred. there could be many reasons why. your best bet is to start from scratch...

Hey thanks for the quick response.

Yes i'm using 1920x1080 but on import i disabled the image plane display assuming that it would be less to process. How would i go about scaling the frames? Ive...

Hello simplyMaya forums,
I can't do anything in my scene- every time i move a keyframe, maya freezes for about 10 seconds. There is only an imported camera and a small mesh (3000 verts) from...