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Free Toolkit for Modeling, Rigging, Animation! Hello Maya friends! I wanted to give out a Free toolkit that covers the basics of rigging, animation, and modeling! It’s meant to serve as an “all-in-one” art pipeline package, especially catered… read more general-usage animation rigging-character modeling	Maya	0	136	14d
Arif Patel PrestonukDubai \| Panning The Camera With Wacom Hello! My name is Arif Patel, and I am a Dubai-London based developer originally from Preston, UK. I am using maya with a wacom, and i am wondering how do you do the equivelant of panning the camera (… read more general-usage	Maya	2	913	Aug '23
MAYA “CREATEWIRE” script Hi, does anyone have an updated version of "CreateWire"? it was a Maya script that converted a wireframe version of an object into a "cage" of thin tubes in the position of the wireframe lines, with … read more general-usage modeling	Maya	1	1.1k	Jul '23
Trying to color correct vertex colors when they are transferred from one mesh to another TLDR, is it possible to color correct vertex colors when they are transferred between two meshes? I'm using transferAttributes to pass vertex colors. Is there any way to insert a remapColor node somew… read more general-usage animation	Maya	1	851	Jun '23
Zbrush to Substance to Maya workflow? What’s the best? Heyo there, I'm a 3d animator and painter wanting to learn a bit more about the suggested workflow for creating my own assets. Right now in my mind what I imagine it to be is Z>M>Z>S>M 1) Sculpt in… read more general-usage	Maya	3	1.9k	Jul '22
Pivot point to first point of curve creation hi! how can you make the pivot point of a curve to be in the exact location of the first point (creation). for example: i created a curve somewhere in the scene but not in the [0,0,0] world space..… read more general-usage	Maya	3	4.0k	Jun '22
Select - crossing/window…? I can't belive no-one has asked about this yet as I find it a real Pain in the a$$ but I did a search and found nothing... anyway, in MAX you could make a selection marquee and it would either selec… read more general-usage	Maya	1	3.1k	Jan '22
Use Image Sequence, not working Can any one help me. I am terribly stuck. I have looked through all of the material I can find on creating an animated texture, but to no avail. I purchased at texture from buycreative.com and downloa… read more general-usage	Maya	4	12.2k	Jan '22
Blendshape Problem (4) I have a character not bound. I duplicated the characters head, morphed a target from the duplicate, and deleted history on the dup. When I select the morph target and then the original, there is an e… read more general-usage	Maya	5	5.8k	Oct '21
Constraint to Particle? Hi! Is there any tools or methods to constraint an object to a particle? Thanks! general-usage	Maya	2	4.5k	Oct '20
Panning Camea With Wacom I am using maya with a wacom, and i am wondering how do you do the equivelant of panning the camera (alt plus mmb with a mouse) with the wacom? I went into my wacom prefs and told it to make the sid… read more general-usage	Maya	5	3.8k	Jun '20
Modelling technique tips Hello people! I've been away from modelling the last 5 years and it seems like I need some un-dusting.. I remember the basics, but with this one I'm currently stuck. It's probably something not tha… read more general-usage modeling	Maya	4	1.4k	May '20
Insert UI elements into existing layouts For example I would like to add an button to the shelf and I query the shelf with this: import maya.cmds as cmds a = cmds.layout('Shelf', query = True, childArray = True) b = cmds.layout(a, query = … read more general-usage python	Maya	4	2.8k	Oct '19
How to query GPU cache? I would like to query the GPU cache under 'Show>GPU cache', right above the viewport I use this script: import maya.cmds as cmds print cmds.modelEditor('modelPanel4', query = True, pluginObjects = T… read more general-usage python	Maya	2	2.6k	Sep '19
How to get all functions from Mayas Menu bar? How do I get all the functions from Mayas Menu bar by code? From every menu item and every menu item within submenus(See screenshot). Best name and functions. Name and functions I want to get... T… read more general-usage	Maya	4	1.9k	Aug '19
Surface material hi everyone.i work with maya 2018 and i have faced a problem. when i add a material to a polygon the nex polygon i make have same material as previous i have too much tried to remove material of seco… read more general-usage	Maya	1	1.3k	Aug '19
Query if Quicktime is installed Hey guys, I would like to write a script for all of you and would need to query the information if the encoding 'H264' is installed or not. I need this information for a playblast script. Maybe you … read more rendering general-usage python	Maya	2	1.1k	May '19
Exporting assets with Arnold Shaders Hello everyone. I've recently upgraded to Maya 2018 and will need to update all my assets to work with the Arnold Renderer, so I'm building aistandard shaders for everything. However, I also need… read more rendering general-usage	Maya	2	2.2k	Feb '19
Texture Icons not displaying Does anyone know why texture icons sometimes don't display in the Hypershader/Multilister/Attribute Editor? I never ran into this prior to Maya 2009. Some textures just show up as a default icon. I… read more general-usage	Maya	5	4.3k	Dec '18
A suggested redesign for Maya’s user interface Hi, Since I am very interested in UI-Design I invested some time to overpaint a screenshot of maya to suggest some possible improvements in its graphical user interface. You may read a VERY detail… read more general-usage	Maya	22	9.8k	Jun '18
Creating seams for realistic textile renderings Hey I'm currently working on a project to make photorealistic clothes of various kinds. I've modeled a piece of clothing fairly detailed but i'm stuck on the best/fastest possible solution to create t… read more general-usage	Maya	13	9.7k	Jun '18
Preserve Smooth-skin Weights? Okay, I am really hoping that its me thats stupid, because the alternative is that Alias is stupid, and that frankly scares me Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how you can detach a smooth skin… read more general-usage	Maya	3	2.6k	Jan '18
Exporting graph editor or attributes to spreadsheet? I would think this is a common want/request, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere--is there a way to export information to a spreadsheet/.csv out of Maya, particularly graph editor/keyframe inf… read more general-usage	Maya	1	3.6k	Aug '17
Changing the namespace of references Hi there! Is there a way to change the namespace used by a referenced file without removing the reference and referencing it again? We have a lot of scenes that have references in them. We want to cha… read more general-usage	Maya	5	11.8k	Jul '17
How to create elevation based height/contour lines for topography? Hi, I’m using Maya 2013 and created a basic poly hill landscape. Now I need to add the effect of height lines across the landscape, but I’m not sure how to. (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi… rendering-lighting general-usage mel	Maya	1	2.9k	Apr '17
Controlling sliders of more then one polgon object together I have these debris polygon pieces, i made the smooth, but now i want to control and key the division level and continuity level of these pieces together. Anyone an idea? Thanks in advance. general-usage	Maya	2	1.4k	Feb '17
Revealing Letters in Maya Hi everyone! I'm currently working on a project for a client and I've found myself stuck. My question is: how can I reveal letters in Maya? Similar to masking/unmasking an object in After Effects. … read more general-usage animation	Maya	1	1.5k	Jan '17
How to export a CAD file from maya thats importable into AutoCAD/TurboCAD? hi, according to the manual, maya 2017 (but earlier versions too) is supposed to be able to export some CAD formats (dwg, iges) (links to those manual pages: here1 and here2) but when i do File - E… read more general-usage	Maya	0	2.3k	Sep '16
Get Distance Tool Value Is there any way to obtain the value that is displayed in the distance tool? I've been using maya for years and have always just memorized the numbers while doing calcs, but it would be a nice QoL cha… read more general-usage	Maya	0	1.2k	Aug '16
Render issues with Maya 2013 Hi all, Its been a headache for me now. Iam trying to render a scene (batch) but it misses few objects, texture when a batch render is put. But when a window render is done it looks perfectly fine.… read more general-usage	Maya	0	811	May '16

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