I'm trying to have a guy walk into a room and as he gets closer to the window the camera is pointed at, his reflection slowly appears as he moves in. In my light linking, nearly nothing is touching...

Thanks guys. I will try what I can when I get to class tonight. My teacher told me that to get playblast running faster, I need to delete my preferences, make sure as much history is deleted as...

I'm trying to playblast a 13 second scene and it's taking about four seconds per frame. I can't justify hanging around for 23 minutes while playblast does it's thing, or in my experience stops half...

I will look into said magazine(s), thanks. I don't know why I didn't think of that myself.

I have a fair idea what would make a great home set-up, but I'm on a fairly tight budget as I'm still a...

Do you work with Maya for a living? I can't imagine a studio comp having such low stats, no offense.

I'm convinced I need to update my computer at home. My Maya won't render heavy scenes which worked fine at school, even though I just increased my ram to 1Gb. If you're happy with your home set-up,...

I'm kind of a newbie. I got a headache just trying to understand your reply... no offense.

I'm trying to insert a muzzle flash for a gunshot. I have some geometry with a glow on it and I'm trying to key frame it one frame at a time, key-framing the visibility on and off. For whatever...

I don't need anything killer. My home computer doesn't need to top my work computer, what ever that may end up being.

edit: and yes, I'm impatient.

Both of those are an issue for me, actually. I know I could use more ram and a better video card, but I didn't want to spend the money on that if I'm going to end up buying a whole new computer...