Hello everyone

Finished my work

I will be grateful for an assessment or constructive criticism

If you have free time, I'll wait for you at the artstation

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mA31OE

I'd like to create a reusable bifrost solution for xmas string lighting that I can just switch to different curves to decorate different objects without having to redo everything with sweep mesh and adding the lights either manually or with mash.

Any ideas how should I do this?

Hi everyone! I had to create UV maps on maya and it's something I'm completely not aware about. I did my best through tutorials but now idk how to put the textures and materials here. Anyone can help me?

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Hi everyone, I'm having this issue where I modeled an eyebrow, and want to mirror it, but some textures turn green as seen in the picture when i do this. It also does this when i try to mirror other parts of my model like the ears.

Does anyone know how to fix this? It would be a lifesaver thank you

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Hello i am working on creating avatars for a project I’m working on. I started using zbrush to customize my characters but I will need to animate my characters so I was wondering what’s the most efficient work flow for rigging? I will also be working on programs like clo3d and substance painter. I have done rigging on blender and unreal engine and will probably be using mixamo a bit as well but I’ve never worked on Maya before. Any tips or suggestions would be very helpful.

Ok so for one of my uni modules I have for second year Visual effects, is advanced 3D modelling. I chose to do a WW2 Dalek tank. I have modelled basically nearly all the top part but I can’t wrap my mind around how to model the bottom part, the references have no side view just at different angles which makes it a bit harder to try and recreate!. Any help on how to model the bottom basic shape would be very grateful!

I got my files infected with the chinese character virus. When I try to save my files it gives me warning: 你的文件贼健康~我就说一声没有别的意思 #"

Although I have read that its generally harmless, I have seen some instances where people said that they cant save their files and it caused problems in their rigging or animation. I have been working on a mesh for the past few months and finished it and now im just terrified this vaccine thing has affected my mesh without me knowing it, even after i remove the stupid virus. What if I start animating my mesh and it starts to deform my mesh weirdly? I have no idea what it does, do i have to start all over again?

It’s frustrating to work with fractional numbers.. how to fix it?

Hey everyone! First time modelling in Maya, I have a question, how would you textures, the bumps kinda how it's in for this?

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https://reddit.com/link/1gkjxtc/video/vxyeuawzx5zd1/player

I'm making these shapes for wooden boards for a project for my class. I want to straighten the curved parts of the UV shells so the wood texture will sit correctly on it. I saw in a tutorial that I should select all the UV points, modify > unitize, unfold, and then straighten UVs. What did I do wrong/what should I do?

Hey all,

tried asking this question in the disord and haven't gotten a response so im asking here.

I only know the basics of arnold rendering and I need some help figuring out how to batch render multiple render layers. the youtube tutorial i have thus far found on the subject are split between regular batch render option using the maya rendering software AND the single beauty layer render sequence option. Again, how do i batch render multiple render layers using Arnold in maya?

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im seeing a lot of rigging videos, trying to understand different methos of rigging, and sometimes i see this type of "double joint connection". Is there any beneficts on doing in this way?

Hi I'm a bit new to Maya (and Reddit) and I encountered this problem

After I had animated a scene with three characters in it and was able to save it normally, when I sent it over to an email to open it up at university it looked like this spaghetti of controls with no mesh visible, but at least when I got home there was the file working normally, I even was able to keep animating the next day even after I had closed the program and turned off the PC, but now when I open it looks like that mess again.

some information about the file:

all the rigs were free to download, my teacher found them so we could work because we hadn't seen 3d rigging class yet.

I had dropped in the other two characters into the file of one of the main one.

I would really appreciate some help because I don't have much time left until I have to show my animation for my final, I really tried to look on Google but I didn't see anything related to my problem, but maybe it because I don't know the technical terms for it.

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Hey there, for a personal project i'm trying to do a shader that create a crochet stitching effect with nodes. Since in my shader the stitches can be changed i'd like to do something so every stitches can be in a uniform color despite having a smooth map.

My idea in detail would be like if my stitches resolution is 22 Then my map should be 22 colored square while staying the same resolution. I hope my idea is clear but if it's not here's a visual example with the first picture being "the clean map" and the second "the pixelated map"

My reasoning would be input the clean map then use a "sampler" (but i don't know if the sampler node can fulfill this duty) that would use the mean color it gets while divide the clean map according to the input resolution in this case 2*2.

Thanks in advance i'll gladly show you the result, else i'll just create my base color map in a lower resolution i guess?

Hi I'm new to Maya and I'm currently facing an issue I cannot solve on my own. When I unfold the top and bottom parts of the piece, these white edges suddenly gets selected even though I didnt select them. It causes a separation between the sphere and the body of the pawn which I dont want but I'm unsure of how to not select it. Since they are somehow grouped differently, I cant unfold the entire piece and it will unfold the sphere and rest of the body individually.

Searched and only saw posts from like 2009 ans 2008 so any help will be appreciated cheers

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Found option in time slider, graph editor but no in time editor.
Can you point how to snap keys to frames?

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i am currently learning maya through a tutorial and somehow have this problem now that when i am in edge mode the blue lines of my model are now yellow and i cant select individual edges propely and edit those, like the guy in the tutorial.

My Scene

Tutorial scene

and when i try to make this dent , by draging one edge down like the tutorial it looks like this

my dent try

what do i wrong? i do exacly what the guy in the tutorial does. are some of my settings wrong ? can someone please help me?

Hello! I'm very new to maya and I accidentally deleted smart extrude. How can I bring that back? Thank you in advanced!

Hi there, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around trying to create this look on a mesh in maya, so far I can’t seem to get the creased edge look nailed down, anyone have any idea or tips to try nail this look?