Maya Crashing While Rendering (Limit the CPU core numbers)
Maya crashing while rendering can be a very disturbing matter, especially when it’s happens a lot. The easier way to fix it is by lowering the CPU cores of your machine that Maya uses during the render process. Most of the time it will work. I know it’s probably not the answer you were looking […]
Create an FK-IK switch Arm in Maya with Node Editor
Creating an FK-IK switch arm in Maya with the Node Editor is not too complicated approach you can implement for your next character rigging project. In this article, we will demonstrate the FK-IK switch setup for the arm of our character. But make no mistake, the same principle can be applied for other parts of […]
How to delete a specific node in Autodesk Maya 2023 (three ways)
Delete specific node in Maya can be really handy in case we need it. We can do it in three different ways I can think of. In order to delete a specific node from the history of an object in Maya, we must have the construction history on, which is an on-off button on the […]
Select Random Faces in Maya with Mel Script
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 to add to his/her work. […]
10 General Tips and Tricks in Autodesk Maya
Using general tips and tricks in Autodesk Maya can be very helpful. It could save you time and effort, and boost your productivity. In this article, we will cover 10 general tips and tricks in Maya. Here are all ten to make the navigation easier: Faster Loading of Maya: The first general tips and tricks […]
Create and Assign Material in Autodesk Maya (All Possible Ways)
Create a material in Maya can be done in lots of ways. We will cover all the possible ways. Since most of us (3D Artists) have our own ways of doing things in the 3D world, that suit our habits and routines it’s good to know that Maya has covered us. You can watch the […]
Realistic tablecloth simulation in Maya (nCloth)
Create a realistic tablecloth simulation in Maya with the power of the nCloth engine. Pretty easy and straightforward process that can anyone grasp in under a minute. For this to work we need only two things. We can use the same technique either for animation or modeling purposes. The animation use case is pretty much […]
How to export an Ambient Occlusion texture map from Zbrush
Exporting an ambient occlusion texture map from Zbrush and later on using that map to add more shadow details to your color texture map is a very good idea, and we should definitely have it under our belt. Ambient occlusion is a technique used to simulate subtle shadows that occur between nearby objects. Basically, is a […]
Convert texture to geometry in Maya
Converting a texture to geometry in Maya is an interesting technique we should definitely need to grasp, cause it saves us a lot of time, in the modeling process. The command is through Modify – Convert – Texture to Geometry. This technique allows us to apply an image texture to a plane geometry and then […]
Export separate light render pass in Maya with V-Ray renderer
Export separate light render pass in Maya with V-ray renderer, in that way we have much more control over the lighting on our scene in Maya, during the post-production process to make all the extra adjustments we need, for fine-tuning our final output. Lighting is an essential part of any 3D scene. To put it […]
How to create a turntable in Maya
How to create a turntable in Maya for a 3D character for presentation purposes. simple steps you can follow through. Since this article is more from a technical perspective, for how you basically create a turntable in Maya, I won’t go into much detail about the renderer and the lighting I have used for exporting […]