djblazer: how did you get the gloss effect for the minifigs? is that a special shader? i've used a couple different gloss shaders and they don't seem to be working for me, but i'd like to be able to...

that worked. thank you.

roach: thank you for responding, that solved my problem. my minifig is now as smooth as...something that's...really smooth. lol

the work i've seen you post on this site is awesome. a couple of...

ok i will look at both of those. even tho i'm a total newb, maya is so cool.

Does anyone have any tips on how to make cad-imported legos look more photorealistic, or at least close to realistic and less "cartoony"? I've seen some great stuff here and elsewhere, and am looking...

roach105, I'm replying on an old post, but how would you go about smoothing the edges for imported lego minifigs so that the head retains the original roundness? i'm new at maya and am currently...

Tried that. I even went all soft just to see and didn't notice a change there either. Weird. I also tried increasing the subdivision and then softening again, but that didn't change the way it...

I know this is an old post, but I am amazed at your bus station, and was hoping to get a pointer from you. I've been using ldraw [mlcad] to generate my minifigs, but when i convert them to .obj files...

I'm completely new to this forum and to Maya, but I've searched thse forums and could not find an answer to my question. I've created a Lego minifig model in Ldraw ]MLCad to be exact] and converted...