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Prep Your Model For Delivery *Note: Depending on where and who you are prepping the files for, might vary on how you setup your model. – Select everything and Delete it’s history – Freeze your Transformations Depending if you moved a piece to a certain position will decide whether or not if you want to […]
To separate the link between two shapes that was created from deleting faces from one polygon. – Select the polygon – POLYGONS || Mesh > Separate
When you have a NURB, you may need to add more isoparms(sections) to follow the shape of your model more closely prior to converting it to a polygon. This allows the polygon to have more points when being created. ADDING ISOPARMS TO NURBS
DBL + CLICK on the floating window header to attach the window back into it’s position. CLICK DRAG window to become it’s own window.
Maya Scripts and Hotkeys This tutorial will teach you how to work with scripts in Maya. It will also show you how to assign script commands to keyboard shortcuts, otherwise known as hotkeys. Downloading Scripts When you download a script (from this site, or elsewhere), you should be asked to save the .mel file to […]
Specularity, Highlights of the Surface Create a NURBs Sphere. By default, lambert1 is a applied. lambert has no specularity/highlights. It is matte in color. Create a material with highlights. – Open the Rendering Tab; – Notice all the materials with highlights. Lambert: Only material with no specularity; Anisotropic Blinn Phong PhongE Apply a Blinn material […]
Create a Transparency Create a NURBs plane and sphere; Position items one on top of each other. Color the plane and apply a texture Blinnto the sphere Adjust the Transparency of your sphere – Select the sphere and adjust the Transparency attribute in the Attribute Editor. – Black is opaque and white is transparent. You […]
Using a Ramp Texture Create a NURBs plane. Apply a lambert shader to the plane. Apply a Ramp texture on the color attribute for the lambertshader you applied on the plane. Look over the type of Ramps. V Ramp,U Ramp, Diagonal Ramp, etc: (ex. a Circular Ramp might be used for a bump on the […]
Apply a Bitmap as a Texture Create a NURBs plane. – Make sure the plane is a complete square. – Press 5 to turn shading on. – Turn Hardware Texturing On Create a material to place your bitmap on. – Decide what type of material you are creating. – In this example I created a […]
Mental Ray Materials Mental Ray offers materials and shaders useable oly with Mental Ray. Turn on Mental Ray – Go to MAIN || Window > Setting/Preferences > Plug-In Manager. – Go to Mayatomr.mll and check Load and Auto Load. Set your Renderer to mental ray – Click on the Render Settings button. – Make sure […]