Hi all,

So I got my hands on Maya 2017 and wanted to see how good Arnold was compared to Mental Ray. Up till now, I've spent my past 2 years using Mental Ray to good effect, but with it being...

So I figured out the trick: Using really, really rigid nCloth.

A simple component-to-component constraint, and I was good to go.

Hello animators, and anyone else who reads this!

I have spent countless hours on Google, experiments that failed, and I'm pretty much stuck with a part of my character for quite some time.

I...

Is there a way to lessen the strength of the turbulence/allow it to only occur in a direction? Because no matter what I input into Turbulence frequency, speed or turbulence, the flames at some point...

Thank you so much guys for all the replies! I've managed to achieve a nice tight ring to my liking! However, it doesn't really look firey.

http://i.imgur.com/jmwtnTZ.png
The empty space in the...

Thanks guys! I'll try them out and update the first post if its successful. :D



How do I go around creating such a texture?

Hello all, I need some help again.

I've been looking around for how to use Maya fluids to create a ring of fire around my character. It's part of a scene where he stomps on the ground and then a...

WELL that was easy! It took me forever to find the "separate" function. Thanks!

The problem is that I want it to cast shadows. I don't want specific faces to cast shadows. Basically I have 2 cubes, one bigger than the other, merged. So it's like a box within a box, with both...

Hey all, I've been doing Minecraft renders of people, but I'm in need of help.

Basically Minecraft skins have a "hat" layer which you can imagine as a big transparent cube that surrounds the head...