Maybe give this tutorial a shot. Looks to have good results.

http://www.3dfuturebits.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=1174

I can't quite tell from your images, so forgive me if I'm misjudging your model, but it almost looks like you've made his eyes flat. Bender's eyes are like rounded cylinders. There are lots of...

I made a model that a friend of mine online ended up texturing. When he did it, he used lots of procedural Maya shaders, as well as using some layered shaders that had jpgs in them. The model looks...

Depending on which version of Maya you're running, you might want to check out this mel script:

http://digilander.libero.it/t_reds/scripts/polyBridgeScript%201.0.zip

If you look at...

I tried that method, and although it worked fine when it comes to this sluggish issue, for some reason any pull-down menu's in Maya take like 10 seconds to open, and I can see them almost trying to...

It's obvious to anyone paying attention to hardware trends that 64-bit cpu's are becoming much more popular now than when the Itanium's were released. I myself type this message from an AMD 64 based...

There was a tool released awhile ago that is supposed to let you convert between formats of Maya files. Check it here:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/plugins/?section=utilities#2936

I will try to swap around my RAM sticks. Two of the sticks are brand new, the other is only like a year or so old. None have been overclocked or anything, and none give me any errors, but I have had...

Here's a good way of testing it to see if it happens to you as well....


1) Make a polygon sphere with 500x500 divisions.
2) Resize the sphere so that X,Y, and Z all equal 0.1
3) Duplicate the...

I know I've seen other people who have had the same issues as well, and they were also running Windows. The RAM is brand new, so I know it's not a hardware issue.

Do you think that it could be the...