Times are changing, the land of hardware renderers using the GPU to render your images instead of the CPU is getting closer every day, check out Iray by Nvidia as one example.....This is the future...

Don't combine the objects, export them both as a scene or individually too Mudbox and work on them separately....combining in Maya does no cutting of faces or merging vertices at all for...

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You wont find the solution for this in preferences, even though you can change the settings there for the project you are working on.

The answer you are looking for is to go to the "file...

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Yes it sure is, go to "window" , "rendering editors", "hypershade" right click on any material, your mia material for example then choose select objects with material....this works for full...

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I noticed you are using an IK Handle, in this case that's the opposite of what you are trying to achieve to make your manta ray wings flap.

for a simple solution you want to be using FK Not...

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Hi Farbtopf,

I was looking for something to do while browsing these forums and your post caught my eye so here is 1 possible solution that is very fast efficient and a pretty simple setup.

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Hi Lori,

You probably found a solution already by now but thought I would give you my thoughts incase you havent solved this issue.

The way you would get a smooth skin effect with rigid binding...

Nice one Blazer...

I had a go at making bender a while back and this was my attempt...I think he looks much better with a Santa hat though : )

very nice...impressive details on the texturing

I think they would look cool on a starfield background, maybe a couple of distant planets and some motion blur to give the illusion of a speedy...