Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 1 19-05-2003 , 04:52 AM
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How do you achieve this effect?

Im curious as to how you achieve this realistic looking relfection, all i can get is a hot white spot?

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Thanks for your help

# 2 19-05-2003 , 05:13 AM
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if you mean the reflection with all the white spots... then you can try HDRI

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# 3 19-05-2003 , 05:26 AM
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im not really sure how HDRI works, i have GI Joe, and i tried putting a picture of a sky as the "sky color" but i didnt see any effect.

am i doing something wrong?

# 4 19-05-2003 , 02:58 PM
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You might be.

In the main GIJoe pop-up control window, under HDRI Fake, there is a checkbox. That needs to be on in order for your color image to be evaluated/calculated/faked as a HDRI image to achive those cool highlights and reflections that you needuser added image

Here is an image for you to see what I mean:

Arrow 1 when this box is checked, you can put your mouse over almost any piece of text in the GIJoe panel, and get help on what it is/does.
Arrow 2 You said you added a color image in this color slot, so I won't talk about thatuser added image
Arrow 3 when you add a color image to the color slot (see Arrow 2 ), in order for the HDRI effects to happen, this checkbox needs to be checked.

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# 5 19-05-2003 , 05:47 PM
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I did have that checked, and it didnt seem to make any difference. What kind of image should i be using for the HDRI image?

Does anyone have a sample of how this should turn out so i can see?

Thanks for your help so far

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# 7 19-05-2003 , 06:53 PM
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I havent messed a lot with HDRI but when I tried it for the first time, I used pictures with an extention .hdr

and actually I haven't even tried HDRI with Gi_Joe so...

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# 8 19-05-2003 , 07:00 PM
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Oh, btw, use HDRShop to convert your .hdr images to Floating Point tiffs for use with Maya. (GIJoe specificly)

I believe that targas work too, but I just stick with what Pixho said, and use FP Tiffs user added image


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# 9 19-05-2003 , 07:01 PM
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Actually now that I think about it... I got the .hdr files and I had to convert them... but I used .jpg and it still worked user added image

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# 10 19-05-2003 , 08:34 PM
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Ok i downloaded HDRshop and converted a .hdr file to a FP tiff but when i try to set that image as the sky texture in Gi_joe i get an error from Maya that says Failed to open Texture file...

Any ideas what im doing wrong now?

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# 11 19-05-2003 , 08:41 PM
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did you try converting it to a regular jpg file? It worked for me

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# 12 19-05-2003 , 08:44 PM
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Weird!

...yeah, if it worked for EMO, then try jpeg.

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# 13 19-05-2003 , 08:53 PM
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yeah, i use tga, i can't get fp tiff's to work either... Guys!! Maya 5 just came in at work!! I have it sitting on my desk! I can't wait to try it user added image
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# 14 19-05-2003 , 09:05 PM
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