Feb 15

Lighter???

Posted in: Maya
Hi,
I am currently working on a project and the main piece of the image is a lighter….. I would very much like to make this 3d using Maya, however i am very new to the software and was wondering if there are any tips or techniques anyone could tell me to help me out?

Thanks
Paddy

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Feb 12

SSS Help

Posted in: Maya
So I’m using Maya/mental ray for an animation of a surgery involving the trachea. I’m using the misss_fast_simple_maya material and it works perfectly fine until I apply it to a cylindrical extruded surface (like a hallow pipe). You’ll see in the images that some of the objects will work, but when I apply it to the trachea (which is hallowed out so you can go inside it), I lose all backscattering effects. I tried adjusting the radius, but that didn’t seem to help. Any ideas of what can fix this? Thanks!

SSS_)1.jpg: Left object (the trachea) has the same SSS material attached as the two objects to the right of it

SSS_02.jpg: Same material (just tried a different bump to see if that was the problem). Non extruded cylinder works fine, extruded shows same problem as the last image

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Feb 08

Need a 3D mosquito

Posted in: Maya
Hello

Is there anyone who already has a video of mosquito flying and then it does like if it bites something? Or anyone can quickly do that? Or a place where I can find it ?

Thank you

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Feb 08

Maya Animation (Seconds, Minutes,….Time Slider)

Posted in: Maya
HI, Great Forum waiting to learn more about VFX.

hope any one can Explain to me somting….

i have animation that i made in (maya) i have set the time slider is to Seconds For The animation but whan im importing it in to after effect i have 2-Seconds of animation and i want it to be 70Seconds Long
(about : 1:10:00 1 Minute and 10 seconds)

i know that is wired Qustion but still……

thanks..

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Jan 31

Difference betwen the different Maya renderers

Posted in: Maya
Hi,

What is the difference betwen Maya software, Maya hardware and Mental yar? When to chose one and when not to chose one?

Thank you

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Jan 28

Dynamics: Dominoes?

Posted in: Maya
Hello,
I have recently been to a 3D Animations short course, I have learn’t quite a lot in a 5 day period. See my final product of 5 days here…

I am trying to create dominoes, using dynamics. I have created a passive rigid body, the floor, and set the dominoes up as active rigid bodies, and added gravity to them.
The animation goes well, they fall like real dominoes, Although when the fall, the don’t stop moving as a real domino would. They keep vibrating.
Is there any way to stop this?

Thanks.

Will,

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Jan 27

Ugh, Uv’s. Can I do this?

Posted in: Maya
Hey.

I screwed up. I modeled a character, well, multiple for a short film and rigged the one character already. He’s bound and ready to walk and strut his stuff. Well I unwrapped him, I thought, I mean.. I remember unwrapping him. So when I go to export out the head UV’s to paint, it was no longer unwrapped.

So, my question is, since I use another app for my unwrapping, (blender cuz its super fast and efficient compared to maya), is there a way I can reimport an unwrapped head and transfer those UV’s to the binded head that isn’t unwrapped? And if so, how?

That’s what happens when you get ahead of yourself :rolleyes: Thanks for any input.

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Jan 21

Light issue

Posted in: Maya
If i create more than 7 light in my scene, After 7th light the 8th light is not showing any effect in view pane, ( it is coming in rendering ). Is it a bug or any limitation with maya that it is not showing any changes after 7th light.
Thanks
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Jan 20

how to giv objectID in renderman for use in compositing

Posted in: Maya
HI im new to renderman n im tryin to mak use of objectID to render exr files for compositing. can anyone explain me
1. How to giv objectID ?
2. How to render exr with objectID ?
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Jan 17

how to connect mocap data to mesh?

Posted in: Maya
hi there
it’s complicated to explain this problem if you look at the video you will get what i mean
thank you..

Attached Files
File Type: mov movimento_overview_video_800.mov (2.82 MB)
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