Forum: Maya

Hello All, I was hoping that someone may be able to help me create or knows how to get this kind of look. http://www.ibrahimdilek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/neurons_big.jpg If there is any documentation out there to create this shader, can you point me to it? thanks in advance!

Hello all, would anyone happen to know if you are able to create a point position pass with Maya fur using V-Ray?

What is the industry standard for HDR merge programs? Is it HDR Shop? I'm looking for an HDR merge program for Linux- any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks!

Hey guys i've been working on this fire shot and I keep running into this same problem and i was hoping that someone would be able to help in my shot after a few seconds a very large hole appears in the fire, this has been a reoccurring problem that I keep running into and it would greatly...

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Hi all, I want to render out various passes from mental ray to reconstruct a beauty pass in nuke using this formula Beauty = diffuse_level * (diffuse_raw + (indirect_raw * ao_raw)) + spec_level * spec_raw + refl_level * refl_raw + refr_level * refr_raw + tran_level * tran_raw +...

this is a quick question for everyone who ever did an ocean with a boat floating on top of it ... i'm wondering about what should the best way to do that ... is with the dynamic ocean in maya or the new system in realflow "hybrido" or something else ..... i need the boat to be floating on an ocean...

I want to access the list of image format used to render from maya render globals , I also want to access the renderers in the maya render globals (see attached image), can anyone tell me which mel file may have that or how I can access the whole list using python ?

i have tried window = cmds.window() cmds.paneLayout() cmds.glRenderEditor('name1',lookThru='shotcam' ) cmds.showWindow( window ) cmds.glRender(rs='name1')

I have a volume emitter set to cloud s/w for the particle type. I have an opacityPP attribute set to use a ramp for the opacity which is using a value of 0 at birth, 1 somewhere in the middle, and 0 at death. When playing my simulation in the timeline, the opacity appears to be working properly...

Hi All, I just upgraded to Maya 2013, and I seem to be having a problem. When I turn on viewport 2.0 the camera based selection doesn't work anymore. When I marquee select i.e. some faces, it also selects faces that are not seen by the camera. Am I the only one having this problem? I can't seem...

Can someone explain me how fil type set to camera film gate in projection node works? I know how fil type set to camera resolution works but not quite about camera film gate. When i set fil type to camera film gate then can i use different image resolution than image resolution in render...

Hey, I've got a UseBackground-shader and cg objects ontop of it which casts reflections in the UseBackground-shader.. This plane is causing alot of problem (as it is visible in the alpha-channel) so can't have it visible in the reflection pass but when i turn of primary visibility the reflections...

is there any site where i can find character modeling tut only in maya tut male and female tut plz

hi, i had some image sequences as black and white, is there a way to emit particle from his brightess?

So ive been messing with maya dynamics, 3d containers and emitters and I cant seem to get a good flame similar to this Im not sure what program was used but it looks kinda like maya or maybe 3dmax. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Hey all - I'm the technical director at a small agency with big aspirations. We're currently a C4D shop, and while cinema has some great features (mograph, xpresso) I find it wanting in a lot of areas, and I often feel like I'm part of their QA department with the number of bugs I discover and...

HI, I've imported a Camera Solve from Nukes 3D tracker into my MAYA scene, I've put the camera into a Group so i can position the camera correctly in my scene without altering its embedded animation. Which all works fine. but after Rendering my scene, I've been trying to export the camera...

Sounds like idiotic question but how can I turn bevel off when I have turned it on? :)

Ncloth is a very powerful tool for creating some nice rigid body effect also.Visit the following tutorial and you can get an idea about using ncloth as rigid bodies http://www.fermicg.com/2012/01/shattering-glass-using-ncloth-tutorial.html

proc RenderingBatchRenderMissingFrames ( ) { int $r = {31,32}; for ($i=0; $i < `size $r`; $i++) { currentTime -edit $r ; renderWindowRenderCamera render renderView camera_render; renderWindowMenuCommand keepImageInRenderView renderView;...