Note to self:
When you turn off auto_load plugins, make sure to unload them, too. Don't be afraid to turn even the core ones off, Maya could act silly to start with but doesn't it do that anyways..

Hi,
I am trying to initialize Maya in the mayapy interpreter via this code:

import maya.standalone
>>> maya.standalone.initialize()
>>> import pymel.core as pmc

and it crashes. I have been...

Unfortunately, neither of those suggestions have made any difference, I'm still getting just the beauty pass as a single .exr file with no passes within.
This has started annoying me a bit but it...

Hi,

When I save a rendered image from Vray's frame buffer by clicking on 'save image' icon with open .exr selected, the saved file does not contain any of the elements. I can only get them when I...

Actually, that might well be a very valuable timesaver, how could I not think of that?
Cheers!

thank you for your reply. I model in Modo and bring it into Maya for texturing and rendering and part of the problem stems from not being able to keep the selections between the two software. The...

Hi,

Currently I am having performance drops when using Maya. My machine is quite powerful, running on Windows 7 64-bit, i7 4930X 12-core with Nvidia K5000 card and 48 Gb of RAM.
I run a ton of...

Hi,
I can trim a hole on a nurbs surface when I draw a closed bezier curve on it but cannot do the same with a nurbs circle instead? They are both closed curves and should behave the same, right?...

Hi, apologies for not getting back earlier, I was away from the computer.
Many thanks for both of your input, even though I'm not going to ask you to spend any of your valuable time
fixing...

Negative. Already have gone through the usual suspects checklist but although I choose the faces and the joint in the outliner, then try smooth bind with 'only selected joints' ticked, still can't...