Tweet From the Autodesk University MasterClass, Naughty Dog’s Christophe Desse walks through using a Mudbox texturing pipeline for creating one of the Uncharted 3 game and cinematic assets creating a quick render in both mental ray for Maya and V-ray. From the CGMeetUp Description: In this mudbox Master Class video , Christophe Desse will take [...]
Tweet Holomatix recently announced the availability of SprayTrace for Maya which creates an instant preview of a Maya MentalRay scene by providing real-time feedback on shaders, textures lighting and camera adjustments without any special hardware requirements. Check out the page that Holomatrix has created for SprayTrace for Maya for Instant Mental Ray Previews here. SprayTrace [...]
Tweet Maide Control is an iPad app with a desktop server component that will allow you to control you computer using touch and gestures on the iPad. Recently Maide Control has included new functionality for 2010, 2011, and 2012 versions of Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds MAX. If you already have Maide Control, you can [...]
Tweet Omar Ahmed walks through how to create a cream in the coffee swirling effect using Maya Fluids, rendering with MEntal Ray Final Gather.
Tweet Ankit Gajjar shares a Maya script XrayModeDisplay which can toggle Xray Display for individual objects in Maya, not just the entire scene. Check out the XrayModeDisplay for Maya to Set Xray Mode for Individual Objects in Maya here. Ankit Gajjar writes: By default in Maya if you turn on Xray mode u will see [...]
Tweet Patrick Woo looks at some “less than elegant” (as he puts it) methods for resetting the initial state set on particle objects in Autodesk Maya. Patrick has also written some posts on the topic of reseting particle initial states in maya to great lengths which can be found here.
Tweet Scott Englert updates his Push Pull Constraint for Maya 2012 windows 32 bit. the sePushPullConstraint for Maya allows you to have three transforms and with the push/pull you can grab the main and the other two will follow along -Its a type of constraint that keeps the constrained object a specific distance from the [...]
Tweet Ranjit Singh Rana with a look at how to create wire frame renders in Maya with a bit of Ambient Occlusion attached using Mental Ray. Check out the How To Render Wireframes with Ambient Occlusion in Maya using Mental Ray here. from the tutorial description: More often than not, students come to me asking [...]
Tweet Since the Mental Core initial beta announcement back in September 2010, many have been eagerly awaiting the CoreCG plugin for Maya Mental Ray Mental Core and the day has finally come with the release of Mental Core 1.0. MentalCore is a plugin that provides an alternative to the standard rendering workflow for Maya and [...]
