customizing maya’s viewport view cube to spongebob

Richard Kazuo Maegaki building on a previous post from a tip from Autodesk Graham Bell’s blog that covers how one might change or customize the look of the view cube in Maya’s viewport windows, Richard offers his Spongebob Squarepants maya viewport cube! Check out the post and download the graphics here.

To create your own custom viewport cube in Maya, swap out the graphics found here:

• If you’re using Maya 2009, change the Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\icons\AutoCam\VCfacemap.png file.
• If you’re using Maya 2011, change the Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\resources\AutoCam\Textures\VCfacemap.png file.