Hasta La Motion!

Hi,

I am looking for a very basic introduction to the UV editor in Maya. Most tutorials presuppose reader knows why there are four different areas and why UVs should lay in 0 and 1.

I know how to to UV mapping but i dont know why they should be laid in 0 and 1. I dunno what will happen if they are not. In fact i dont even know why there are 4 areas while most the time we just use 1.

Please help me understand. Thank you

hi…
i want to sculpt the plane … with help of alpha…

check the example screen shot .. which done in nuke…. very easily… i want to do same kind of effect in maya…

i want to do projection on that plane so it should look like my screen shot…

any help ?

thanks

http://www.metic.net/maya/HDRI/hdri.php

I can’t seem to set up the render layer (layers) properly.

Starting at 5:45 (toward the end of the tutorial) it tells you how to remove the HDRI dome so it doesn’t show up in the render, but you still get the lighting from it.

However, I have Maya 2009, and it’s totally different and I can’t seem to get it to work. Does anyone know how to do this in Maya 2009?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,
I posted this message over on The Area, but in the past you guys have been way more helpful. 🙂 Anyway here’s the issue, I’m having problems with Normal Mapping. I export the high res mesh from Mudbox and a low res one as well, when I apply the normal maps to the mesh in MayaIi’m having some weird issues where there are like squares showing up in the image. I’m pretty sure this is something to do with the UV’s but it looks like they match perfectly and if it is a problem with them, I’m not sure how to fix it.
One of the images below is the original high poly model and the other is the result I get from normal mapping.

Thanks a lot for any help,
Greg

Edit: btw, I exported the normal map as 2048×2048 and high quality settings, but the quality doesn’t seam to be too great. any suggestions?

Edit: sorry one more problem. I may be missing something totally basic here, but when I try rendering out the model (the normal mapped one) its just blank. The high poly one renders fine, but the low poly isn’t showing up in the renders.

Thanks again

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Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone knew if Maya 2009 supported Point Cacheing, and if it does, how to do it. If anyone could at least point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg