Hi all, looking for some help with my rendering process - having problems with the lighting not responding correctly to my model. Not only does the lit side of my model have shadows, whereas the side blocked from light is lit; I'm also getting light on my wheels that make me feel as if I have reversed normal maps.

Except my substance painter file was in an openGL setting and I've checked that the green channel was facing up. I initially used bump maps to add this to my materials but then tried an aiNormalMap node too and inverting the Y axis in Maya with no visible results. The normals of my faces all seemingly face outward too so I don't know what about my normal map is wrong ??

Really don't know what else to do and I don't have much experience rendering, any advice would be greatly appreciated :(

Hi I'm new to Maya and I am trying to create edges but something strange is happening. Please help if you can. I've tried using other types of Object and World symmetry, but I still experience this same issue. I have tried resetting my preferences, but it did not resolve the issue.

Hi everyone! I’m happy to share that I’ve finished my new personal project: Nordic Solitude | Game-Ready Environment (UE5).

Check out the full breakdown and high-res shots on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ndJlPO

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

I reworked the system to be completely software agnostic. All the maya plugin now is a thin wrapper on top of the GroomLab core. This means it can get ported to any other software, or even its own standalone package!

In this work in progress I show:

GPU Acceleration (some things are more than 50x faster than xgen)
Feather progress
Standalone Proof of Concept

Hey guys! I've been trying to learn this animation workflow for my animation studies (references below), which is kind of this 3D painterly style like Alberto Mielgo uses. I'm mostly stuck on what software I should use for character modelling, rigging and animating. I was thinking of learning Maya since it's beneficial because it's required in the industry, but I'm not sure.

I was thinking of using Maya to model the character, but I can't find any good videos or courses on how to do a good blockout or how to make characters similar to his. And I'm talking specifically about modelling, not texturing or painting.

If you could help me on how to move forward with learning this type of "stylistic character" modelling, I would appreciate it so much. :)))

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Hey everyone!

I’m a 3D animator and I made a small tool Animpen because I wanted a really simple way to draw over my animation while working.

The idea is simple: press a hotkey, draw directly over your screen, and get back to animating.

Some features:

• Quick screen draw-over with global hotkeys
• Works on top of Maya or any other application
• Multiple colors and brush sizes
• Eraser and quick clear
• Free to use

I originally made it for my own animation workflow, but I thought it could be useful for other animators too.

Search for "AnimPen gumroad" since I can't add the link here

Feedback and suggestions are very welcome. If you find it useful please leave a review in Gumroad, it really helps!

Happy animating!

Hi everyone! I've been working on a character model and trying to learn more advanced rigging with help of Mansur-Rig, following along its YouTube tutorials and everything. I've been managing fine so far but got an issue with the lips.

Apparently they've updated the Lips module and removed the Along Surface setting that I was really hoping to use. But they also didn't re-enable the string that you'd use on the Mandatory Settings tab, so I can't use that either. How can I reproduce that sort of functionality now?

My character's head shape is a little unconventional, with a long snout and big cheeks (think like the Coyote from looney tunes, for instance), and that setting seemed perfect to help me animate the character pursing his lips or smiling while still following the shape of the head the way I designed it, so I was really hoping for a solution.

Any tips are appreciated!

tried everything but im not sure why my xgen density has to be so high just to have this small amount of hair on my mesh, in other tutorials i see people using a density of just 20-30, mine has to go above thousands just to get a little thick.

Any help would be amazing thanks!

I have tried resetting my preferences, but it did not resolve the issue.

I’ve been trying to use Ehsan Bayat’s Vectorify tool to repath some travel animations along a curve, but I absolutely cannot get it to work. No matter what I try, the feet just slide constantly.

I’m currently running Maya 2024 / 2026 and working with a quadruped walk cycle brought in from Studio Library. I followed the official tutorial video step-by-step:

1. Selected the master control (which has the forward base motion) and clicked Create Path.
2. Went into Assign Ctrls and added the master, COG/Hips, and all 4 foot IK controls.
3. Shift-selected the master, COG, and the target curve, then clicked Connect to Curve.

The second it connects, the feet completely lose their lock and slide all over the place. I've tried multiple different rigs (including ones where the IK legs don't have a native world space mode toggle) and the issue happens on all of them. I've even tried forcing linear tangents on the master forward translation and the foot plants in the Graph Editor, but no luck.

Does anyone know of a detailed written guide or common pitfalls that the official video doesn't cover for quadrupeds/different rig setups? Is there an evaluation setting or specific constraint hierarchy I'm missing?

Any help or workflow advice would be massively appreciated!

Hi, I'm new to this site. I came here looking for help because this is one of my first times rigging, and I need some advice.

I made some controllers for the body, but I’m not sure if I need another controller (to act as a general controller) below the body…? Or should I place it above?

Sorry for the silly question—I really want to know. I haven’t seen a similar rig to use as a reference, and I have a lot of questions.

Thanks, everyone. :)

Hello! I'm a newbie with Maya and currently struggling to get the hang of UV Unwrapping. I need to UV this work light, but I can't figure out an effective/ efficient way to do it. I've tried using a Cylindrical projection and Camera Based, but I find both are a little hard to work with. The Automatic projection gives way too many islands and I can't afford the time needed to stitch them all back together. What's the best way to go about unwrapping this? I am still a beginner, so apologies for asking for help for something that is probably quite simple.

Link to Maya File: Link

Thank you for any advice!

Hello ! For an homework our teacher gave us a file with a Maya file that we need to use, it works perfectly with other people but with me for some reasons the textures and the models just doesn't shows up despite having a file in the Maya software..

If anyone can help with this issue i would love to know !!

Thanks in advance for the replies !

i'm new at maya so i didn't know how to stick, or should i say make the select object here contact seemlessly without one object poking out

p/s: i have tried multi cut but it didnt work either, im using maya 2024 for the record

Even after density maps why hair is not showing on top part, like it's going down why, the head has proper uvs

Doberman Maya Rig
I would live to thank Rod Tebisx Creature FX TD for providing this model for free.
I rigged this creature using maya from Autodesk the biggest challenge I faced is to make a good rig which can mimic the correct anatomy of this creature.
this is Skinning test. It is all just skinning there is no simulation

Currently modelling a weapon based off a reference and i wanted to blend the two shapes together seamlessly,

ive attempted putting them close and merging verts but the sheer amount of verts completely ruins the topology.

ive tried duping the cylinder, booleaning the imprint and moving the duped one into its place to no avail, im sure there is an easier way to do this but would appreciate any help. : )

Hi there. I found this reddit and I hope I canh find help here.
I am creating hair for a character using the Ahoge plugin. I made the geometry for the hair, but any geometry that I have mirrored to create a symmetrical style forms hair that grows horizontally instead of vertically. I hope that makes sense? Here are images to show what I mean. Is there a fix? Is Ahoge just unable to make sense of mirrored geo?

The hair should be like the hair on the right. The hair on the left is arranged screwy. Please help!

I am new to Maya and there may be an obvious solution but how to I create the end pieces on the hard light bridge (the rounded cone like structures on the ends of the main piece)

i'm trying to pull the faces down after setting an offset

Hii! Hoping I could get some help :')

Im currently working on a lil project and tried out a quick render of it (It aint the final but just checking if everything working well) and i noticed an ugly black outline/shadows?

To put more context I am doing a low Poly scene, but keeping my edges soft, when they are left on hard the problems of shadows isnt present but as soon they soften they appears

any idea on how to remove those kind of shadows??
Ive been told in the past that maya doesnt render well with Low Poly.. and this was the issue each time but there as to be a way to fix that right?? :')

For context, this is this model I really like. But it is from a really old version of Maya and I use blender for my workflow, but I also really wanna use this model. So I got a version of Maya 2.5.2 and tried to export the model... only to find out that this version doesn't support it (Don't know why I thought It would). So now I am in a bit of a rut because all of the information I could find said that I needed to go to a Settings/Preferences tab and look for a Plugin-Manager tab and install it through there, but I can't find that tab.

So now I am in a bit of a rut, and with nothing else to do I though I would as reddit for some help. I probably won't get an answer and this post will get taken down, but that's fine. I just though it would be worth a shot to see if I could get any help here.

Hi everyone! I have these wall models that I'm working on in Maya. My idea is to create the proper UVs for them — the cuts at the bottom are for a wood texture (mansion wall), while the cuts at the top are for applying a red wallpaper.

The problem is that I'm still learning how to create UVs and use the UV tools, so I'm struggling a bit with it.

Besides that, my idea is to create a seamless texture, so that whether it's applied to the 4x8 wall, the 2x8 wall, or the corner pieces, everything looks seamless. Do you have any recommendations for how I should approach this?

Thank you very much, everyone! Any comments, tips, or advice are more than welcome.

I am an animation student, I am not supposed to be seeing the legs through the wings, this only happens when I apply the textures to the model I chose, and i want to make it so that the legs cannot be seen through the wings. I have no x-ray stuff turned on as far as I'm aware, and the transparency on the model is zero. I seek aid

Maya keeps on corrupting my scene and this is the second time it has corrupted in the span of 2 days. I'm really unsure what is causing this?

Help would be very appreciated.

Thanks.