Tag Archives: channel

successfully unparent your child objects

Posted on 30/04/2008 by Spot

as an maya beginner, i ran quite often into the problem that if i unparent an object it jumps to a weird location. the reason is quite simple: when you’re parenting the child “resets” its coordinates in relation to …

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changing the order of channels

Posted on 25/04/2008 by Spot

i truly like maya, but the one of the more annoying limitations in an otherwise very flexible application is that it is not possible to change the order of channels. whenever i wanted to add a new attribute in …

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reference copies in maya

Posted on 05/01/2008 by Spot

3ds max offers next to copy and instance an additional possibility to duplicate objects: reference. i was looking in maya if there’s something comparable, here’s how i could reproduce quite similar instanced object behavior: create an object, call duplicate …

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zdepth problems in combustion with vray rendered images

Posted on 29/05/2007 by Spot

do you experience problems with fuzzy edges when you use vray as your rendering system to channel the zdepth to use an rpf image in combustion? here’s help: first, turn on the ‘enable filtering’ check box for the zdepth …

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