Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:48:58 UTC No. 919877

>>919874
>Looking for good addons recommendations
Blender sir

Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:18:33 UTC No. 919880

>>919877
sir, i know you may be retarded but blender is not a maya addon.

Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:14:39 UTC No. 919896

>>919874
For a poor fag, is there a maya retop style addon for blender?

Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:18:50 UTC No. 919897

>Maya thread
>HURR DURR INSTALL BLENDER
>guize how can I make Blender more like Maya?
Holy fucking shit, stick to your own threads you retarded monkeys.

Anonymous at Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:08:42 UTC No. 919942

why don't more 3d programs ship with cool and useful base models? :(

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:11:43 UTC No. 922375

>>919874
maya indie is well worth the money.
thats my tip

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:02:03 UTC No. 922380

>>922375
You don't work in the industry though. Waste of money.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:06:03 UTC No. 922385

>>922380
you dont know what you're talking about.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:52:26 UTC No. 922490

>>922375
but i already have maya indie anon.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:39:22 UTC No. 923690

Where do you guys download shaders for Maya?

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:31:31 UTC No. 923694

I have a question related to axis/grid and and export to Unreal.

Ok so, I downlaoded a few rigs to train animations and they all seem to be on a different axis. I can see that cause of the grid position and the way the camera rotate around the mesh. How do I fix that so it's in the right axis AND on so the grid is set up correclty?

Just putting the up axis to y in the settings doesn't fix it. And I also tried to change the mesh's rotation manually and reset the transformation and same thing.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:10:55 UTC No. 923770

>>923694
i already responded to You in other thread about this,

change(in preferences) the up vector to be maya Y.

those files are loading in correctly either way, and shouldnt matter.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 07:57:16 UTC No. 924316

>>919874
>Looking for good addons recommendations.
https://malcolm341.gumroad.com/
Excellent script packs with tons of useful little helpers.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 08:00:46 UTC No. 924317

Maya 2023.1 or Maya 2022.4?
I'm still on 2022.2 and it's buggy as hell, pretty stable tho.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 13:27:25 UTC No. 924336

>>923770
Totally forgot I asked this, didn’t touch Maya since then. Thanks again I guess. Also I didn’t feel it worked for a while cause the camera was just flipped vertically… My bad.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 14:28:00 UTC No. 924341

>>924317
Maya 2023.1 really
updating for my pluginssake

>>924316
did see the tools they made, but its not for my workflow sadly, but thanks anon! hopefully someone finds it useful

recently botaniq released the scattering system for maya

https://docs.polygoniq.com/botaniq_maya/1.0.0/

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 4 Nov 2022 03:14:23 UTC No. 924446

Anyone willing to post their maya setup with two monitors? I want to use my other monitor but I don't know what a 2-moni. setup should look like.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Nov 2022 04:41:28 UTC No. 924448

>>924446
Main monitor 1 persp cam full screen with a high spec blinn control material
2nd monitor 1 large persp cam for modeling and a docked outliner and attribute box

Depends on how you like to work and what tools are important to you. I don't animate, I don't need the time slider. 50 whopping pixels moar. Everything else I use is just a floating window sized to my current needs like the hypervisor or UV editor.

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 03:54:09 UTC No. 925102

Scripting fags, can you tell me what are the basic parameters in Python that pretty much every function share like the 'name' in all the polys methods (polySphere(name='cubeA') for example) ?
I have no idea why these are not specified in the doc? Like I tried for 20 minutes to set up a position parameter on some meshes before realising I should have used cmds.move on them and I find it quite stupid that you can't directly set up the position of a mesh on the same commande that it's created with.

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:37:43 UTC No. 925118

>>925102
>onegoogle away
https://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2009help/commandspython/cat_General.html

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 11:44:29 UTC No. 925126

>>925118
Not what I asked but thanks. I was asking for parameter not the actual methods but I don't think the common ones are listed in one place.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:55:44 UTC No. 925286

Another stupid scripting question.

How do I get the name 'hierachy name' of an object instead of its shape name? Here's this little piece of code as an example. It's just supposed to print the translater of all the locators in the window.

[code]
locators = cmds.ls(type='locator')
for loc in locators:
print(cmds.getAttr(loc+'.translate'))
[/code]

When I create locators by spamming the locator button in the rigging shelf, I just end with locator1, locator2, locator3, etc...
The problem is that loc return 'locator1Shape' instead of locator1. What to do to get 'locator1'?

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:13:47 UTC No. 925295

>>925286
If You had read the documentation you'd realise that Ls will list last path, you can use long command to get full string, but you then need to do string operations

I think easiest way to do shit like that is with
[code]
import maya.cmds as cmds

locators = cmds.ls(type = 'locator')
lr = cmds.listRelatives( locators, ap=True )
maxindex = len(lr)

for list in range(maxindex):
print (lr[list])
[/code]

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:24:43 UTC No. 925296

>>925295
> If You had read the documentation
I do but it's badly set-up and sometimes very confusing.
> you'd realise that Ls will list last path
Last path? What does it mean. The doc says "The most common use of ls is to filter or match objects based on their name"
Also is Dag the thing I was after ? I see this Dag thing being used everywhere in the doc but don't know what exaclty it refers to

Thanks, your code works tho. I actually did try the listRelatives command but didn't put the ap flag so I ended up with a None return value.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 13:35:06 UTC No. 925304

>>925296

last _element in path_ sorry.

-long flag will try to input|path|with|parents|like|this

and without the -long flag you' most likely see 'this' only.
list Relatives - in Your case will allow you to quickly extract the parent DAG object of Your list of shapes

DAG objects are there for world space transform - shape node is basic node that contains main data for Local transform etc (You can think of DAG object as a special group container that sits over the base)

You can also list the (Assemblies) flag as True to get the surface level objects wthin the scene - not with type tag as it wont work -and then sort into new array, using match name and appendning.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 14:21:50 UTC No. 925309

>>925304
Ow I see, thanks a lot man.

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:44:14 UTC No. 925412

hi just started Maya designing buildings and landscape for marketing to jerk off to what do I need to know to get ahead of my peers

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:16:47 UTC No. 925432

>>925412
learn shaders and what renderer you want to use

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:05:10 UTC No. 925457

Another stupid question from scripting newbie.

I made a fuction that return the translate of a shape or whatever. My problem is that I'd like to use that value returned to create a bone at that exact translate position.
But I get my value as [(0, 0 ,0)] instead of (0, 0, 0). What to do ?

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:09:36 UTC No. 925459

Any script recommendations for modeling? Never tried any on Maya

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:26:12 UTC No. 925465

Here's the code for >>925457

def createSkeleton():
# LEFT LEG
cmds.select(clear=True)
createJoint((0, 0, 0), 'Root')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('HipsLocator'), 'Hips')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('UpperLegLocator'), 'UpperLeg_L')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('LowerLegLocator'), 'LowerLeg_L')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('AnkleLocator'), 'Ankle_L')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('FootLocator'), 'Foot_L')
createJoint(retrieveBoneLocatorPosition('ToesLocator'), 'Toes_L')

def retrieveBoneLocatorPosition(locator_name):
cmds.select(clear=True)
locators_selection = cmds.ls(type='locator')
locators = cmds.listRelatives(locators_selection, allParents=True)
for loc in locators:
if (loc == locator_name):
return cmds.getAttr(loc + ".translate")

createSkeleton()

In the scenes, I have a bunch of locators with their respective names based on the limb they're supposed to represent.

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:47:30 UTC No. 925516

>>925457
[] indicates that you make a list/array,
usually if you specify [0] in that case, it will read the number set

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:51:14 UTC No. 925517

>>925516
Yeah I figured, I should stop asking questions like that.

Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 06:10:56 UTC No. 926505

How the fuck do I move a bone/object without influencing its children positions? For example, I have this rig (more a proxy that'll generate a rig trough the placement of locators) I'm trying to adapt for a mesh and I can't precisely move the clavicle without moving the entire arm. Wich is annoying if I want to slightly edit a previously moved bone. Google tells me D or Insert does that but no it moves the pivot of the selection, wtf?

Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 12:19:40 UTC No. 926521

>>926505
Try holding D

Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 12:32:38 UTC No. 926524

>>926521
Yeah I realised that it works for bones but not for locators or shapes wich is what I need to move.

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:15:10 UTC No. 926597

>>926524
in move tool settings
turn off Affect children.,

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:33:58 UTC No. 926623

i opened maya this morning and my viewcube is gone. i only turned it on once, so i forgot a long time ago how to turn it on. how do i turn it on?

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:39:06 UTC No. 926624

>>926623
ok found it. windows -> preferences -> viewcube: click "show the viewcube" box, but how did it get shut off?

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:08:09 UTC No. 926638

>>926624

other plugins/ environment from the files will change Your maya.

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:10:06 UTC No. 926666

>>919874
pirated maya pleess

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:19:34 UTC No. 926679

>>926666
fuck off to CG peers thread faggot.

Anonymous at Sun, 20 Nov 2022 23:06:05 UTC No. 926699

>>926597
Thanks man

Anonymous at Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:39:27 UTC No. 927529

What could be the reasons for my textures to not show if:
- I reloaded the textures to their correct paths
- Put the window in shaded mode
- Ticked off "Use default material"
- But if I assing another custom material to a selected part of the mesh, it does show it in this new material

Anonymous at Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:22:26 UTC No. 927685

>>927529
I would help you, but you play League of Legends.

Anonymous at Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:43:17 UTC No. 927695

>>919874
>share our tips and useful stuff!
Here's a tip, grandpa: Download Blender

Anonymous at Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:41:44 UTC No. 927705

>>927695
stay in your lane jeet.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Dec 2022 11:18:08 UTC No. 928377

>>924446
No clue what most people use, but my 3 monitor setup really depends on the workspace I'm in. For modeling I keep persp cam with the main maya window on my center, with pureref and a ortho cam open on the right and maybe the hypergraph,outline, or UV editor on the left. Lookdev is the the same at center with hypershade right and render window left. Animation usually has the animation layer editor on the left and the curve editor on the right, although this is always changing for the situation, sometimes you need the bifrost graph for simulations. Basically, I'd set up a nice flexible and clean workspace in your main monitor, and use your second for other related tools. Hypershade, graph editor, an ortho cam, etc. Sometimes you just want a web browser open for the Maya docs even. Don't worry too much about getting one perfect setup, just keep the tools you need all the time at hand in each workspace you have, and keep everything else as flexible as possible.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Dec 2022 11:28:06 UTC No. 928379

>>925412
Learn basic topology practices, but don't get lost in it. Learn Arnold and the Hypershade editor. Don't waste time learning all the renderers in existence, use Vray if your machine is more mid range, or if you're doing long animations and you need a faster render, use Arnold in every other case. Learn MASH or Bifrost for scattering objects on your landscapes. Golaem and similar addons are great ways to give life to your spaces by adding crowds of animated people. Resources like Quixel and speedtree are also amazing time savers.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Dec 2022 11:36:37 UTC No. 928380

why are the blenderfags the most annoying cretins on this website

Anonymous at Wed, 7 Dec 2022 08:03:13 UTC No. 928818

>>928380
Not just here, they're annoying irl too, I know a guy who constantly shit on Maya and shill Blender 24/7, always talks about how Maya is failing and Blender is taking over and is better blah blah blah. But the more I argued with him the more I realize he knows jack shit about Maya.

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 06:37:52 UTC No. 928934

>>928818
It's not people who use Blender specifically, it's just new people who have a lot of very shaky confidence in their abilities. Blender just happens to have a lot more users like that than Maya does.

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 20:54:29 UTC No. 929000

>>928934
>Its not them specifically
but its always users who use blender that shit on anything that doesnt have its faggot orange logo

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 20:56:54 UTC No. 929001

What's the difference between Maya and 3DS

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 21:01:25 UTC No. 929002

>>927529
> still have this problem
For real anyone can't help me with this?

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 22:01:13 UTC No. 929006

>>929002

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Dec 2022 22:29:40 UTC No. 929010

>>927529
What shaders are you using? The Arnold shaders and Maya shaders will show textures in the viewport most of the time. Other shaders wont.

Anonymous at Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:13:14 UTC No. 929325

How hard is it to switch from Blender to Maya? Blender's viewport is real laggy for what I'm doing and hardware upgrades aren't helping anymore. I need a scriptable API as thorough as Blender's (everything has an api handle, everything). Python preferred but C++ would be fine I guess. Pretty sure Maya has everything else I need.

Anonymous at Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:40:35 UTC No. 929350

I want to do hard surface modelling in Maya but I can't seem to find any decent tutorial out there that gets straight to the point. Anyone wanna point a noob to a good channel on youtube or any other helpful sources?

Anonymous at Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:43:36 UTC No. 929446

>>929350
pro advice: dont do modeling in Maya.

Anonymous at Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:00:50 UTC No. 929448

>>929350
Elementza.

Anonymous at Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:53:44 UTC No. 929455

>>929325
>How hard is it to switch from Blender to Maya?

...its easier than the other way around!

>Blender's viewport is real laggy for what I'm doing...

...just curious, what are you doing? i know that maya can handle extremly large files, but in the end, it depends on the machine you using! pic related, its the elysium station from teh movie "elysium", it takes 45 minutes to load into maya/the machine it running on!

>Python preferred but C++ would be fine I guess.

python and c++ api ...

Anonymous at Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:17:45 UTC No. 929597

>>929446
>pro advice: dont do modeling in Maya.
Why?

Anonymous at Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:20:08 UTC No. 929599

>>929597
model in Max like Arrimus3d, our savior

Anonymous at Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:31:02 UTC No. 929600

>>929446
Modeling in Maya is perfectly fine if you are not a Blunder damaged retard.

Anonymous at Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:29:32 UTC No. 929617

quick question, has anyone found a way to auto save in student version of maya? It seems like for some dumb reason Autodesk never added autosave to the students and my teacher says he can never find it either.

Anonymous at Wed, 14 Dec 2022 03:09:11 UTC No. 929620

>>929597
Its not its strongest side, Maya was made for animation, try doing it anything other than Maya for better optimisation and workflow.

>>929600
blender fanboying is as retarded as sucking corpodick. stick to the software strongest side faggot.

Anonymous at Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:30:55 UTC No. 929665

Might be a stupid question but if I export an animation to another character that has the same rig and joint hierarchy but only the proportions of the bones differ, will the animation be correctly adapted to the other character?

Anonymous at Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:23:19 UTC No. 929718

>>929665
it wont be 1:1

Anonymous at Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:12:45 UTC No. 929740

>>926505
Hold W, tick Preserve Children

Anonymous at Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:10:39 UTC No. 929852

Does anyone know how to keep the paint brush user settings, i made a good tree from paint brush but there is no google result on how to keep the tree from changing into default 99999999 polygon version.

Anonymous at Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:33:39 UTC No. 930115

>>929455
>.just curious, what are you doing?
Wacky animation with multiple modifiers on a couple meshes duplicated from one controlled by an armature and copying back certain vertex positions procedurally using geonodes, plus using geonodes to affect shaders. Can't say much more, client wants it a bit hush until they do their reveal.

Anonymous at Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:11:22 UTC No. 930219

Question for Maya oldtimers/fans, what's your favorite version of Maya and why?

Anonymous at Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:48:04 UTC No. 930582

>>930219
2016, because it is perpetual license.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:05:10 UTC No. 931440

>>929350
On Mars 3d, he has a very good car tutorial series and he covers absolutely everything you know for 99% of the models you will ever do

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:17:37 UTC No. 931442

>>929620
>Its not its strongest side, Maya was made for animation, try doing it anything other than Maya for better optimisation and workflow.
Werks for me tho

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:44:57 UTC No. 931548

>>931442
good for You anon.
I find more high detail stuff is chugfest for modeling and i have to switch softwares for it

ultimately do what works for your current task.

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:58:05 UTC No. 931552

>>931548
I use Zbrush for details. That said even though I'm comfortable working on Maya I've been thinking of getting into 3ds max, what benefit does it have over Maya in hardsurface modeling other than "better workflow"?

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:37:05 UTC No. 931596

>>931552
the only saving grace of 3ds max is the modifier stack.

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Dec 2022 23:46:55 UTC No. 931603

How do i layout uvs but scaling only some shells?

Anonymous at Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:19:19 UTC No. 931611

Anonymous at Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:14:24 UTC No. 931620

>>931552
this>>931596

the modifier stack, and parametric modeling, is the reason why you would model in max, and it is pretty neat, though at this point blender has almost cought up in terms of that modeling system, and surpassed it with add-ons, so frankly the only reason i would recommend max anymore is if you already know it like the back of your hand and dont want to learn a new software or if your pipeline is already built around it. but if you havent leanred any 3D software yet and are trying to pick one, i could not really recommend max over blender anymore, especially with its price tag. you just dont get anything extra.

maya separates itself from having a really nice suite of animation tools, and the modeling toolkit isnt bad either, although my information may be a bit outdated here, i havent used maya since like '18. it was the software we learned when i was in college, my college called itself a "maya house" really proudly (probably some kind of handshake sponsorship or fasttrack that never ended up panning out), and there were some features i really missed about maya, like the radial menu that can access 99% of the features in the software from one wheel, the various node editors, set driven keys. idk, maybe a small feature but i just really liked mayas little transform window on the right hand side

things i didnt like about maya was mostly its destructive history and how it handles history poorly, and i kind of remember its bones being a pain in the ass to orient when rigging in a way that max and blenders werent.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 1 Jan 2023 02:10:13 UTC No. 931691

is it possible to model stuff in maya without importing the reference images? every single tutorial for maya starts with importing the reference images. suppose i don't want to draw it first, can i just like come up with some shit from scratch in maya or is that really terrible and nooblike?

Anonymous at Sun, 1 Jan 2023 07:04:43 UTC No. 931719

>>931611
What version?

Anonymous at Tue, 3 Jan 2023 21:10:36 UTC No. 932041

Anyone here tried denoisers in Arnold? I'm trying to figure out which one is the best (Optix, Oidn and Noice), Optix and Oidn look pretty much the same except Oidn deal with details on textures a little bit better, and Noice, according to google, is supposed to look the best but in my case looked the worst as the details were washed out compared to the other two, but apparently it's stable and works for animation sequences.

Anonymous at Fri, 6 Jan 2023 04:49:37 UTC No. 932411

>>919877
He means actual scripts you fucking retard.
>>919874
Some guy called Malcom made some good scripts, some free, some paid, but not expensive anyways.
Also if you want a good autorig, Advanced Skeleton 5 is great, you can use it for free as long as it is for non commercial use afaik

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:27:10 UTC No. 933145

Switching back to maya after 10 years of working in a different field.
Need a really robust tutorial to regain control on advance modeling, non of the basic stuff. help?

Anonymous at Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:43:02 UTC No. 935115

>>933145
>advance modeling
Learn Zbrush, then just do retopology with Maya, the tool is pretty much braindead to use too, really good.

Anonymous at Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:53:12 UTC No. 935409

>>919877
'cause you are a Blendlet instead of a Maya CHAD

Anonymous at Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:11:41 UTC No. 935425

>>924446
you need a 3rd monitor

Anonymous at Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:13:42 UTC No. 935426

>>932041
nice k0t

Anonymous at Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:00:25 UTC No. 935432

>>924446
first monitor be decent size, hopefully ultrawide, second be a regular 24 inch with a vesa mount used vertically.
Use a virtual monitor splitter like displayfusion

Anonymous at Tue, 31 Jan 2023 05:12:43 UTC No. 935457

>>924446
usually i keep uv editor and tool settings open on 2nd monitor, everything else is on primary monitor

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Feb 2023 21:15:03 UTC No. 936488

Uhh guys, I just rendered a exr sequence and i have no idea what to do with these layers.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:39:54 UTC No. 936581

>>930219
For me it's 2011, the switch to dark mode was exciting to me because I wasn't a jaded fuck back then. This all changed in 2015 when they did your standard soulless corporate bullshit switch again, making the logo look like Max. It has only gotten downhill since then and by now it looks like your classic mobile chink gacha shit, fuck everything.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:46:03 UTC No. 936582

>>936488
those are aov's used by arnold's 'noice' denoiser.

Anonymous at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:39:02 UTC No. 936588

>>919874
my screen turns black for like 3 seconds while working on UVs, how do I fix it?

Anonymous at Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:22:17 UTC No. 936945

>>936588
Did you clear prefs folder? Also sometimes I nuke the whole maya folder, resolves weird issues that are impossible to troubleshoot.

C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\maya

Anonymous at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 03:40:49 UTC No. 937999

>>919874
Best scripts and addons:
>Maya Bonus Tools (downloaded through official maya channels, required for Zen Tools as well as containing useful features outright.)
>Zen Tools (You'll need a Highend3D account to download, which can take like a day cause that site is ass, also sometimes the site is just straight up not working, so if you can't get it, just try again the next day until it lets you.)
>dpSmartMeshTools (Great for Combining, Separating, Extracting, and Duplicating faces without adding groups and changing around hierarchies in your outliner, keeps shit nice and clean.)
>SimplePipe (does what its called, simple way of making pipe geometry off curves, use in conjunction with Convert Polygon Edges to Nurbs Curves in order to create quick and effective trims and things like that.)
>DcBoolManager (if you're not satisfied with Maya's native visualization of live booleans, gives you a wireframe of the boolean shapes so you can easily manipulate the boolean shapes while they're still live. Doesn't do anything different than what maya can already do, just displays it more user friendly.)
>XRay_toggle_object (allows you to use xray on individual objects per object instead of as a whole or needing to apply a shader.)

I have more but they're pretty specific to what I do, I think most people could get most things done using these. Hope it helps.

Anonymous at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:20:29 UTC No. 938014

>>919942
Useless for anybody but absolute beginners.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:18:04 UTC No. 938525

Is there a way to "invert" the hidden polys?

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:20:15 UTC No. 938606

>>938525
>select everyvertex/polygon you see now
>double press "H"

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:47:26 UTC No. 938607

>>928818
My personal proudest achievement is successfully converting a blender flag to Maya.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Mar 2023 02:54:46 UTC No. 938676

>>938606
I get
// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2022/scripts/others/toggleVisibilityAndKeepSelection.mel line 21: Error: Cannot hide all faces of an object. Hide the object instead.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:07:32 UTC No. 938701

is it just me or maya 2023 just stopped shitting itself even if it has a gorillion nodes in the construction history? Even quad draw seems to be cached now. LMAO even operating on very dense meshes doesn't turn my 4090 PC into a potato.

Anonymous at Wed, 1 Mar 2023 15:13:41 UTC No. 938709

>>938676
that seems like a (You) problem then, so cant help you. sorry try resetting yourr prefs

Anonymous at Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:49:52 UTC No. 940639

>>938701
There have definitely been some performance improvements after years of Autodesk fucking around.

Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:11:42 UTC No. 940682

>>919880
Maya doesn't have addons, we have market place completely different thing because we have to buy stuff. Plus 99% of people's recommended features like bone weight, VR, Unreal, etc, are here too instead of putting it on MAYA LIKE NORMAL COMPANY'S DO. Thanks Autodesk for not doing normal things.

>>938701
My 1050ti graphics card nearly got half of the animation cache, that's better than 2022 for 10%.

Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:52:30 UTC No. 940735

>>940682
>Maya doesnt have addons
>we
'you' dont know what the fuck are you talking about, stop larping as amaya user, and go back to blender.

Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:53:49 UTC No. 940740

Recommen me a good set of tools for rigging. I'm after one that has a rig for game engines (Unreal in my case).

Anonymous at Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:36:21 UTC No. 940798

>>919874
When are Character Animators switching over to Houdini or Blender?

>>Autodesk is asshole

https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1638417039865040897
#gamedev
It is a sad day today, as I uninstall my last and final Autodesk product.

Many of you may remember my past life as an Autodesk evangelist and software consultant. As such, I helped promote and teach 3DSMax across the world...

Anonymous at Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:49:35 UTC No. 940836

>>940798
>Blender is the ONLY economical choice, and the ONLY product getting the depth and speed of development that once blessed 3DSMAX.

get this dumbass out of here

Anonymous at Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:49:06 UTC No. 940851

>>940798
if you scroll past all the gender and sexuality politics that makes up about 90% of that person's tweets, the parts where she actually comments on using blender are basically all negative, haha.

Anonymous at Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:46:34 UTC No. 940951

>>940740
Advanced Skeleton 5 has option for UE skel creation.

Anonymous at Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:07:30 UTC No. 941046

I have a rigged character model in maya and I am trying to export it as an fbx, but when I do, parts of the model are missing, the armature is a mess and none of the meshes have vertex group data for rigging.

When I export as an obj, I can at least get the meshes. But my rigging skills are terrible.

Can anyone give me advice on what I am doing wrong?

If you want to see the model for yourself, it is available for free on Gerardo Montaño's artstation.

Anonymous at Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:26:26 UTC No. 941049

>>941046
Well there is your problem, you using blender. Nothing in blender stays the same, any advice or article we give you will become obsolete in a new patch by the blender developers. Your model should work on any program, maya is designed to work on all engines.

Anonymous at Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:59:44 UTC No. 941052

>>941049
Funny, because unreal engine doesn't like the exported fbx either, which is why I tried to inspect it in Blender
This makes Maya the common denominator in this problem.
And I am asking for help with Maya, not Blender.

Maya might be an industry standard for 3D modelling and animation, but I have little interest in paying for a piece of software for something I am do as a hobby. You wouldn't expect someone with a civil pilots license to go out and purchase a Boeing 737 even though it is technically a superior aircraft than say, a Cessna 152.

I'm just interested in making 3D printable models, not movies, and Blender is the quickest, viable option for me.

So do you think you could possibly set aside the software superiority complex and maybe just try to be helpful?

Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 02:46:56 UTC No. 941071

>>941052
Just because You export stuff from Maya wrong and UE does not like it , is not software issue, its user issue.

Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 02:51:25 UTC No. 941073

>>941052
I looked into the problem and yes, it's still a Blender problem. I check the original artist who uses Zbrush and has everyone knows Zbrush models are unable to support Blender, as stated in their website: http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/zbrush-other-programs/goz/about-goz/

Also explaining why your model become a mess is the original artist not putting the model into one single piece, as explain here: http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/zbrush-plugins/fbx-exportimport/

Now you maybe saying what if that isn't the problem? Well you maybe right because a simple mistake like that shouldn't cause the model to not appear in unreal. Which leads to Vertex/polygon problem. Zbrush doesn't like to change it and when someone does it causes different results. It works in Maya yes, does it work in other programs? I don't know because the original artist doesn't seem to know either. They did claim it works in Unity but everything works in Unity because Unity nearly never gets updated. This is all tech stuff that is out of our control. It should be the artist responsibility to test the model on all game engines.

Oh and i don't know why you getting so many node errors. maybe it's due in part with Maya and Zbrush not liking the file. Or you did something in Blender and export it to Unreal, which sounds like the real reason.

Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:26:05 UTC No. 941123

>>941052
>I have little interest in paying for a piece of software for something I am do as a hobby.
you won't pay $270 to support your hobby? really? a runner who buys two pairs of running shoes a year has spent more than that.

Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:49:28 UTC No. 941124

>>941123
Don't reason with that idiot.

Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:46:23 UTC No. 941140

>>941123
you are arguing that on a board where 'pirated softwar erequest' thread is still on.

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:08:48 UTC No. 941217

Anyone have and good tutorials for MASH?
been fucking with it for a while and it seems like a really good tool but it just slips my grasp most of the time.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:10:39 UTC No. 941316

so when is maya 2024 gonna drop? isn't usually around now?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:45:33 UTC No. 941516

>>941316
it's out

https://makeanything.autodesk.com/maya/2024-384LG-698256.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBdxypY8ZT0

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:58:16 UTC No. 941519

>>941516
biggest change : Bifrost.

Its over for us maya folk. Houdini won.

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:05:32 UTC No. 941521

>>941516
>>941519
I don't really care about the rest that much, but the rigging changes are great.

Multiple skinclusters is the most important addition for me. It basically removes the need for corrective blendshapes, or at the very least reduces the need by a lot, and since skinweights are easy to transfer between even different topologies, it'll be much easier to reuse, instead of needing to rebuild corrective shapes for multiple characters.. Or you could even do topology changes to rigs mid-project without much issues. With skins, it's not a problem, but with shapes, you'd need to redo everything.

Rotation reordering on the fly is a handy addition as well.

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:54:35 UTC No. 941524

>>941516
Lol who cares studios will continue to use their own custom 2018 maya for the foreseeable future lmao

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:05:47 UTC No. 941538

>>941524
what do they have some plugins written in python 2.7 or something?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:00:21 UTC No. 941541

>>941538
Same shit if you work with AutoCAD in an engineering firm. You realize how many companies are still running outdated software? It just werks bud. Updates are a meme to please the shareholders and get the hobbyists to stir shit up. It’s all marketing my nigga.

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:13:03 UTC No. 941554

>>941541
nice strawman

Anonymous at Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:29:20 UTC No. 941565

>>941524
>who cares
>updates to rigging and animation that are substantial
yeah, who cares, blenderlet

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:59:05 UTC No. 941707

>>919874
how well does a pirated copy of maya 2023 work on current MacOs?

i'm leaning to animate in maya which my college provides a licence for free as part of my tuition but during the summer my license will not be active again until the fall so i won't be able to practice with maya unless i pay $305CAD a month or pirate maya on another computer in the meantime

i currently use a macbook pro form 2018

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:59:30 UTC No. 941713

>>941707
Retarded take, you arent in school because you would know that You would get free access for the duration of your course, which You can confirm with an email.

meaning, you just want to pirate it anyway.

gtfo to the pirate thread and ask there.

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:18:20 UTC No. 941721

>>941707
why would you need to pay $300 a month? do you make more than $100,000 a year? if so, stop whining and pay for the tools you use. if you make less than $100,000 a year, then get maya indie which is $300 for the year. also, if you're using macos obviously you should get maya 2024 which is apple silicon native.

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:57:36 UTC No. 941728

>>941721

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:18:09 UTC No. 941754

>>941728
>https://makeanything.autodesk.com/maya-indie-canada-en
dude if you can't even find the indie pricing on the autodesk website, are you sure you've got the cognitive ability to use it?

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:05:54 UTC No. 941763

>>941754
he deosnt know basic shit, he just wants to pirate it, leave it alone.

Anonymous at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:08:59 UTC No. 941764

>>941707
nigga you can keep using edu licenses even after you graduate. I am not even a 3d student lmao and it's been 10 years already. Autodick makes so much money off engineering CAD software that they just don't fukcing care to look at lmao.

Anonymous at Sun, 2 Apr 2023 01:03:49 UTC No. 941858

>>919874
Does anyone have recommendations for Maya tutorials? A lot of tutorials on YouTube use different methods to do the same thing, amd it is a little frustrating. I'm just not retaining much.

I want to animate with it eventually. I used to know Solid Works pretty well, but that's the extent of my knowledge. I'm tempted to just take a few classes at my local community college. Thanks in advance.

Anonymous at Sun, 2 Apr 2023 01:53:07 UTC No. 941860

>>941858
abraham leal are the best ones i've found. as for multiple ways to the same thing? are you talking about inserting edge loops using the multicut tool vs. insert edge loop? if you detach insert edge loop from the menu, you'll see it has a whole page of options that you won't get from the multicut tool as far as i know. which to use depends on what you're doing i guess.

Anonymous at Sun, 2 Apr 2023 01:58:05 UTC No. 941861

>>941860
Thanks, I'll check him out.
Yeah, using the tools. I saw a few different processes for modeling figures, and some use different menus. Like some use the multiview camera, and the mirror tool, while others seem to copy, and paste sections.

Anonymous at Sun, 2 Apr 2023 03:38:52 UTC No. 941866

>>941861
one thing to consider is what year of maya they are using. it's pretty stable, but they do add new stuff regularly, so maybe one way is the way people did in 2018, but in 2022 and later you do it some other way. i guess i'm mainly thinking about the retopo stuff, but i'm sure there's more. linkedin learning does a "maya 202x essential training" every year which covers basics, but always updated to the latest and greatest tools and best practices.

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Apr 2023 18:41:20 UTC No. 942057

>https://www.coursera.org/learn/low-poly-art-video-games

any of you dudes do the "low poly art for video games" course from michigan state on coursera? it says they use maya lt which i think has been discontinued since the advent of maya indie, so i wonder how old it is? the sample videos don't show them using maya at all, so i can't tell. one of the free samples demonstrates how to use tone to create atmospheric perspective which is like some real art school shit rather than just the technical training. looks good, but coursera classes i've taken in the past vary widely in quality from better than an in-person class to worse than just watching some guy on youtube, so i'm hesitant to cough up the dough for it. i bet somebody ripped the videos, but i think doing the assignments on schedule will help me learn more effectively, idk.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Apr 2023 20:10:45 UTC No. 942165

Does anyone know how to stop maya from adding "Shape" suffix to newly added blendshapes?
I need a very specific naming scheme and this is annoying to edit out manually each time I add new ones.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 03:27:44 UTC No. 942190

>>942165
the formatting is prob gonna get screwed, but here you go:

import maya.cmds as cmds
shapes = cmds.ls(type='blendShape')
shapesLen = len(shapes)
for i in range(0, shapesLen):
cmds.select(shapes[i])
cmds.rename(shapes[i].replace("Shape",""))

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 04:15:23 UTC No. 942197

>>942190
in python indentation matters, so you have to indent those last two lines in the loop, but it prob doesn't do what you want because i now see your target is named shape not the blendshape itself. would have deleted it but post was too old by the time i noticed, but anyway if you have so many of those it gets tedious to name by hand, you can automate it. couldn't find a way to change the default tho.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 07:39:35 UTC No. 942207

>>942190
>>942197
Damn that seems like such an obvious oversight, thanks anyway.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:22:14 UTC No. 942215

i just watched this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_TyFzJ1lRI&t=505s
is it possible to bake the textures to use outside of arnold? it looks pretty good

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:30:46 UTC No. 942219

>>942207
i tried updating it this morning, but i can't figure out how to get a reference to the sculptTarget. new to maya scripting, so idk. when i add a new target to a blendshape it always named it after the object like "pCube2","pCube3", so i'm not getting that same naming behavior for whatever reason anyways.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Apr 2023 13:19:40 UTC No. 942224

Is 2024 stable?

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Apr 2023 19:48:18 UTC No. 942353

>>919874
Any good character modelling&rigging courses for a beginner?

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:58:03 UTC No. 942376

>>942353
ironically searching for maya 3dcg will give you good results on youtube and filters out all the blender faggots from appearing in your search results.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 13:02:57 UTC No. 942388

>>942353
did you try the one on linkedin learning? you can often get access for free through your city's library. i watched some of it, seems ok. i always start with linkedin learning to avoid having to sift through dozens of "wat IS up GUYZ!" youtube shit.

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Apr 2023 21:00:13 UTC No. 942406

>have a base mesh
>have a big set of meshes that are deformed targets of that base mesh
>add them as blendsape
>all is well, FBX export works flawlessly
>now try to alter base mesh by deleting some faces and apply "bake topology to targets"
>all is well in the preview and changes were applied to the tagets when I view them
>export as FBX
>ERROR vertex count on targets does not match, skipping
>now try to delete the same faces on base and target meshes, but manually
>now it exports flawlessy

I could punch a wall sometimes, fuck this shit.
Now I'll have to manually delete specific faces form 200 targets, fun!

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:32:58 UTC No. 942849

>>942406
This retard deleted topology after making blendshapes
lmao even, this isnt blender you faggot, you have to either make a duplicate mesh and use an addon to transfer the blendshape, or you are fucked like this.

this isnt Maya problem, you shouldnt punch a wall, you should punch yourself for being retarded.

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:53:22 UTC No. 943213

What are the hotkeys to toggle Drag select or Paint select modes? In Blender it's C.

The only ways I've found of enabling it in Maya are the vertical toolbar on the left that I always have hidden because it's just basic tool that all have hotkeys, and by opening the Select Tool Options and ticking Drag select.

I could've sworn I read in the documentation there's a simple hotkey for it but I can't find it now.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:11:52 UTC No. 943395

>>942215
Arnold is on a league of its own, rendering the same set of texture with let's say Iray, won't give you the same output. Like night and day.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:22:23 UTC No. 943397

>>941123
Why do you care if he paid or pirated?
What concern is that to you?

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:51:15 UTC No. 943412

>>943397
his uncle works at nintendo.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:22:29 UTC No. 943847

Is maya the recommended tool for animating coom vids?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:50:01 UTC No. 943853

>>943847
only if you know what you're doing and willing to be a high-effort coom producer
blender is where most of the coomers actually do their disgusting business so you'll find resources for that sort of thing easier

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:51:02 UTC No. 943854

>>943213
paint select is to hold tab iirc