Forum: Maya

hello everyone, this is my first time to be here and post questions. hope my question could be solved here, it has bugged me for a long time. i'm working on a shot that a person hits on a huge rock then rises a lot of dust. i'm using maya fluid to reach this effect and encountering some...

hello everyone, this is my first time to be here and post questions. hope my question could be solved here, it has bugged me for a long time. i'm working on a shot that a person hits on a huge rock then rises a lot of dust.

Is it possible to project a texture through a camera so that it affects only polygons facing that camera? I need it to render out the projected texture in UV space to get an indication of what parts of uv map will be visible in the frame. Or is there any other way to do it?

Is there any way to determine what is going to show up in the specular render element? I thought that anything with glossy reflections set lower than 1.0 would be considered specular. That doesnt seem to be the case. If i misunderstood, is there a way to get blurry reflections on their own...

Hi dear folks, Can i open a project created with the educational version in the commercial package and render without watermarks? Thank you

What do you think it would take to create an apocalyptic landscape of skulls like this artwork for the movie Conan? http://www.999images.com/view-conan-3d-movie-1680x1050.html I am being asked to create something similar and think that it might be over my head. If you think you could handle...

Hi We are doing a 3d project in which we are rendering the shots through software lighting. Actually we finished all stuff and we are completely stopped at lighting & rendering stage. We are doing layer pass rendering so that we can edit each and every pass in DF while compositing. But here am...

Hello. a question please ... that there are good plugins for maya? Krakatoa --- as there is for 3dmax What exists for maya?

Can someone please explain render threads in Maya. I have a 2x 2.93 6-core Intel Xeon Mac Pro. From my understanding is since I have 12 cores all together, I can double it 24 because of virtual processors (if you can explain that too). Also if "Auto Render Threads" is checked and the grayed out...

Was thinking of subscribing to the Digital Tutors website, as I want to learn Maya. Is it worth it?

In the view port, my fluid looks pretty detailed, however, once I render, the detail is gone and the fluid looks like it has a 10 pixel blur on it. At 2k, it is more apparent, but still visible in the following image. Here is the image that describes my issue. Any suggestions or comments...

so i guess i didnt really know where else to put this (new to forums) but im having trouble with boujou and c4d. Im tracking my footage correctly, but when i export it (with defaults) to cinema 4d, it completely screws up. the trackers are going all over the place..but the weird part is: all the...

Hello friends i just not able to find the solution for that i want to render the smooth preview just like mental ray. is there any option available in vray. and one more thing.. how can i create infinite plane in maya vray.

I was wondering how can you create a UV pass from Vray so I can use it in Nuke? any tips or an example on how to? Thank You.

Hi Everyone, I am planning to setup my own small render farm , so I did some research and I have found a Dell Poweredge 1850 Bi Xeon 3.0 Ghz / 2 Go / 2 x 73 Rack, this is the link : http://www.hardware-attitude.com/fiche-586-lot-de-5-serveurs-dell-poweredge-1850-rack-1u.html So anyone...

Hi all I am running scripts using mayapy. I had to import the pymel.core module to initialise maya so I could call a certain MEL function that was otherwise unavailable. My script runs fine but always crashes without fail on the exit() command I have also tried sys.exit(0) and...

I need my final models in .3ds format and I have all my models in maya. I tried exporting as obj/fbx and then importing it into 3dsmax and exporting as .3ds But I ran into few issues. 1.All the smoothness is gone and when I try to smooth it do sent work properly. 2.In .3ds file some of...

Hi I have a scene in Maya which is lit only by a HDRI. I am trying to render out my scene is passes so that I can comp them in Nuke. The masterbeauty pass looks great but other passes like diffuse, shadow etc are rendering out black only. Please help!! Thanks Priyank Murarka

Hello, I setup a simple rubik's cube in a maya scene, made it a active rigid body, gave some gravity and turbulence. Play animation and it simulates fine and fast Now, I match move a scene and import the FBX into Maya. Then I import my rubik cube animation into this scene and the animation is...

Hey, have been looking at some peoples work and noticed a lot of people say they model hair with polygonal planes.. was looking for some opinions as to whether this is the best method or not and would love if anybody could point me in the direction of any articles or tutorials.. thanks :D

Hi All How to create follicles in Maya? And what is the major use of it? Thanks

Dear Friends, I am fresher in maya and m doing a project. I need to make a water splash to simulate a swan's take off - please see the images attached (). I am using particle surface emmiter and blobby surface particals with threshold .9 But it still does not look...