Does anyone know some good sites to download some trees, plants, general foliage. I need it to be 3D as I don't have time to make the stuff myself or to photoshop it in afterwards.

I need...

I like microstation too, although it does have its problems.........such as performing tasks on solids, and surfaces, which can only be modified a certain number of times.

I love Maya because you...

I use 3D Microstation. An architectural program.

I'm modelling it in Microstation at the moment, but I thought it might be nice to try and do it in Maya as well, to learn a bit of dynamics,...

Are there any tutorials out there on how to make an umbrella from scratch?? It would be a godsend!!

I haven't even started modelling this yet, as I was going to do it using my regular 3D CAD...

I found the slider marker next to the keyed input area a bit misleading.

Thanks for that info!!

I've made a mesh surface (nurbs), and I know that the mesh detail (that appears in the scene when I select the '3' Key) doesn't render in MayaVector.

Someone told me that converting it to a...

Just found out that my windows memory was running low and crashed some of mayas plug ins, so I just had to reload them all.

My view won't render in MayaVector and I think it's because I have been working with displacement maps.

In the drop down menu near in 'Render Global Settings' Window, near 'render using' , I now...

I've being doing some displacement maps on nurbs surfaces. I realize that I need to convert this to a polygon if I want to rend it in MayaVector.

How do I convert a complex Nurbs surface to a...

I thought it was that.

Although mine are already extended to 1000 (maximum).


I think I made a mistake with scaling that 1 object, so I'll just redo it.


Thanks!!