Let’s explore an in-depth comparison between the Fracture Tool and the Solid Shatter tool in Maya. Before diving into the comparison, I want to clarify that Solid Shatter (the built-in tool in Maya) is still a good and valid option for fracturing objects. However, it has a few limitations that
Breaking a mesh into pieces in Maya for a simulation or modeling purpose, it’s always fascinated me. Although the built-in shatter tool in Maya, didn’t meet my expectatios as a 3D Artist. So i decided to build my own Maya fracture tool. This fracture tool is design to break any
Convert a color space from sRGB to Raw mode in Maya automatically through this python script. The goal of this script is to switch the color space for the bump/normal texture maps from sRGB to Raw mode. Giving you also the option to do the same for the color texture
Fixing the green shader issue in Maya for multiple objects can be a tedious process. This Python script solves it with just one click. Seriously. If you’re working in Maya with reference scenes and haven’t encountered this issue yet, consider yourself lucky. Really lucky. It’s a headache, even when you
Need to batch export your entire scene in Maya as individual FBX! This simple python script is one way to go. Just copy-paste the script and you are good to go. Let’s say you have a Maya scene with a lot of 3D objects. You can either export all those
Create a turntable animation in Maya, is a lot faster if you use a python script to do so. The script has a UI with a few key options to play with. Creating a turntable animation in Maya is a great way to show off your 3D work. From 3D
Create automatic FK controls for joints in Maya, an intuitive python script with UI to simplify your rig workflow. It’s completely free and you should definetly try it. This script is an upgrate, that has a UI for easely change the type of constrains and also has a slider to
Create randomly duplicate objects in Maya with python script generated from chatGPT. I wish this functionality was a buit-in feature in Maya. Trust me, you are going to love it. Even though Maya has a similar built-in feature “Duplicate Special“, it won’t given the same results, not even close. It
Select random faces in Maya with Python script with a percentage slider that can speed up your workflow. This Python script has been generated with chatGPT by a few prompts. In a previus article we explored how to select random faces in Maya with a mel script. That script eventhough
Select random faces in Maya is a very handy mel script tool. Since Maya doesn’t have any built-in tools for that purpose. This mel script is going to save us a lot of time. The Author of the script is Byterunner. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any other information, or links
Create facial GUI (Graphic User Interface) controls with this awesome and free Mel script in Maya. Make your custom facial controllers with a few clicks. If you are doing a lot of custom facial rigging in Maya, you should definitely take a look at this Mel script. Download the Mel
