it happens without rendering and there is no texture on it. i shall see what happens with the normals and softening and hardening to see if that works. thank you

this is the render:

Hi,
If someone could shed some light on this i would apprecaite it.
I am modeling a face and for some reason when i smooth it to see what it looks like, dark patches occur as can be seen below. i...

not to worry i have sorted it :)

HI,
I have been doing a tutorial creating a 3d head in maya. I have almost completed it but i am having a couple of problems. the area where i have added the eye, looks like it is not connected but...

i have tried a new mel script and the same happens. there must be something i am doing wrong but have no ida what. perhaps not installing it correctly....hmmm, puzzles me :confused:

this is the script.....i cant say i know what any of it means.....i have maya.6.5




//detachSeparate.mel v1.1
//Jeff Dobson 7/2/01
//jeffdobs@swbell.net
//
//DESCRIPTION: This script will...

hi, thanks for replying.
i deleted the icons on the shelf and started again, but still getting a syntax error.
i do not know anything about scripting so can you tell me what reverse engineering...

hi,
i downloaded the plane explosion tutorial and there are mel scripts that come with it. the thing is i do not know how to load these into maya so they appear in the shelf? can someone help me...

does noone know how to animate smoke?