benrickel
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look up fume fx thats a great plug in for fire or try searching for how to make fire out of particles in 3dsmax in google might find something
i go to outliner and find the group it imported it to. then most the time have to adjust my far plane from 1000-to 10k to make it easyer to see then scale it down position it to the grid then scale it back up . i found most 3ds i have imported 99 percent of the time thier not going to be on the grid …
also if you havent started animating them to move hit freeze transformations on them see if that works. just make sure you save it as a duplicate file before doing any of that
try combining the bullets, duplicate them, delete originals, seperate them and rename them .
gr8, I downloaded the mel and working on it. Thanx ragtag for the help as well hope it all wotks upto my expectations. Anyway certain things seem funny here, when I posted my last thread I coundt see it so I again posted it this I did it again bcause I again coudnt see it and I saw all the three p…
I am working on an Ant model in Maya the model is complete and is animated as well with IK's and bones now I want a real life simulation of the Ant anntenna. Quickstretch in softimage creates the effect that I am lloking at and theres also a mel based on quickstretch, can anyone of you tell me where…
HI pootang thanx for the correction, anyway I tried searching the quickstretch mel in highend3d and also in the www but coudnt find it. I did found this softimage link http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~roys/softimag...el/qstretch.htm if you know any links wherein I find a mel based on quickstretch pls he…
Hi pootang thanx for that neat correction, I did try finding the quickstretch mel in highend3d and aslo on www but I coudnt find a link, anyway I did find this link,http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~roys/softimage_xsi/files/docs/html/model/qstretch.htm which gives u an idea of how quickstrethc works in s…
thanx a lot for that correction but I coudnt find teh mel here I tried searching for it in all the sections of highend and even thru the WWW thru google but in no vain.
Hi, potang This is what I have devised, see wether it makes any sense or nonsense cause anyway it didnt worked. But I know I am on the right track. I made a sphere named head; I made a cylinder named ante; the cylinder had 6 spans and 8 sections; I selected individual CV's from the corresponding r…
I tried all the options in the duplicate menu but none of them yielded the result, When I used the paint texture tool Maya creats an Image file of the exact texture applied, Hope that throws some light to the problem, if u can figure it out ??? cause i tried applying that texture as well to the new …
Hi pootang big stuff, anywya its going to take some time for me to digest it bit by bit, since i am newbie, but anyway thanx a lot for ur help,
How is that no one knows the answers to my query... Is it that wierd, I am asking, hope not.... If u can atleast tell em how to copy an object or create another instance of it which has been textured using paint texture tool. If I copy it it gets copied without the textures or colors .... Hope I…
Hi there, I am trying to animate an ant, all the things are complete and the model is ready setup with IK. Now I want the antennas to move in a realistic manner when the ant is moving or when it comes to stop. Meaning when the ant is standing and when it starts to move there is a DELAY in the ante…
thanx Joojaa, yes i knew there was a way in Maya. But would you elaborate on how exactly to do these things or give me certain links which will guide me in this regard. I might act stupid not knowing these things but somewhere you begin and u dont know all the things at that time??
Hi Joojaa, thanx for ur reply but it seems you have not undertstood the problem. I wanted to create a geometr of penguins from just one and all of them behaving randomly. Also I wanted to know hopw to copy a nurbs object which has been textured using paint texture tool.
I know i might be asking too many things at one time....... but its very important and ugent... Firstly- I am developing a small antarctic scene full with the natural activities of Emperor Penguins. I have a model of penguin model ready, its a nurbs object and I have textured it using paint text…
Hi campbell, thanx for it. Yes indeed there was some mis quaotation from my side. Any way would be more specific about the DAG and DG. Look i am looking for understanding all the node system in Maya and for that u can tell me anything thast relevant to the topic. Thats all i meant in my query. …
I am newbie in maya i am bit confused with the heirarchy thing. For eg: if we create a nurbs sphere and open the hypergraph we see the follwing nodes in the follwoing heirarchy [makesnurbSphere] [makesnurbSphere]-->[nurbSphereshape]-->[initial shading group] What i underst…
Hi there Beaker, Well i did tried parenting the spotlight with the bulb...anyway will try it again probably missing some crucial links. anyway thanx for the help, will surely tell u when it works. BYE
Hi there, i need help regarding using IK vis-a-vis lights. here i will explain in detail I have a polygonal lamp created. I have build a skeleton and applied IK handle solver. I have smooth binded the skeleton to the lamp. The lamp works perfectly as i desire. I have created a sphere which is the …
Hi folks thanx for all ur help... I have succedded atlast. u see what has to be done is that create a texture having only black and white colour , map it to the transparency channel and invert it. Now what it does is that as a thmb rule the black part is made transparent and the white part opaque so…
Hi perseus2 thanx for your reply. You see the thing is that when i map the transparent gif to the colour channel it works perfect and indeed i get a good preveiw in the pers window. But when i render it it gets opaque. Is it that i have to mapp the file to the bump channel as well. or do i need to…
Hi there Maya community. I have tried the following in creating a wiremesh (both polygon and nurbs). I have created a transparent gif when i assign it to the nurbs and poly surface it indeed works. i have mapped the gif to the colour as well as bump channel. it works fantastic. but when i render the…
It seems theres no one in the entire highend3d community who can really help me out ....... i just wanna know how to render animations in maya i have an animation in maya and i want to render it however when i render it just renders one frame. i have already tried the follwoing 1.Batch rendering. 2.…
Hi gmask can you pls tell me how to do this image sequencing thing and how to later convert it into an avi movie. and vector i did tried the playblast thing but although it shows animations but it does not render the scene i mean its as good as watching the animation in the perspective mode of the…
Hi there I need help regarding rendering animations. I have a scene ready also placed a camera and have animations as well. I go to render globals set the parameters for avi format set the frame start and frame end, then i go do batch render and after the batch rendering is done 100 % what i see in …
Thanx for all the replys gmask, giannis, MartinN. But alas i stand where i was. probably i didnt made it clear what i wanted. Anyway. lets begin it all over again. What i want is any glass object placed in an env_sky node (note this is because i want a 3d sky environment) in such a way that the gl…
thanx gmask, well yes the raytracing is on, as far as the lights go i had two point lights targetted on the glass object but i thought since i was going to put the glass object in an external environment(sky) and turning on the depth shadow map on the glass object will automatically be illuminated a…
A glass object ceases to have its refractiveness and reflectiveness and other glass properties when it is placed in an external environment like sky....it tends to get some opacity properties. Need someone to explain me why it happens so and how it could be corrected and also how can the glass objec…