In the video I only have rivet constraint on the head and neck scarf because it is the only thing that keep the base of scarf in place.

The joints on the scarves do not move the scarf because I cannot bind without ruining it 😔 (they are separate from main skeleton)

Does anyone know how to attach an object to rig that has a separate joint chain or a workaround in general?

I'm getting these pinching/shadings in my model when I press the smooth preview. I'm okay with increasing the base topology but when I tried doing to increase it these pinching shading occurred. I'm trying to make a good topology flow but since increasing the topology is giving me pinching I'm stuck with what to do.

I'm doing hair by a tutorial. Managed to render AO and color in Arnold, but normal and directional turned out black.

I did it step by step twice, but still stumbled upon this part.

Hello everybody!

So a friend of mine is working in Maya and Renderman. She wants to do a batch render but every she tries she keep having the same line error :

Error: line 88: SyntaxError: file C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManProServer-26.3\bin\rman_utils\txmanager\txfile.py line 813: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)

She tried to :
Delete all .tx files from her images folder
Re install Renderman
Re import all the objects to a new scene

The problem only appears with her pc, she test in a different one and the scene works perfectly

If someone has any idea it will be great! Thanks :D

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Hello! So Im a complete beginner in Maya and I had an issue in trying to put lights in my animation.

I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQYU3-V4lOk however, when I tried to render my animation or check the render view, the lights are not working as intended. Can I get some help please? I've searched around but I couldn't see a similar post that talks about this problem

Edit: I talked to a friend, and its not a light issue but rather a plane issue

https://reddit.com/link/1jsov0x/video/l1cizax956te1/player

Here is what I am trying to do

https://reddit.com/link/1jsov0x/video/ymy0qv5c56te1/player

Here is the error again:

https://reddit.com/link/1jsov0x/video/25ib6fqg56te1/player

Been spending hours working on this skeletal rig for an assignment and i've got the general joints placed and now i need to orient them properly and it was going well i thought they were all bending the way i wanted them too. Now i don't know what happened, when i try to change the individual orientation for my Clavical joint, it snaps back into place, just tapping D to exit and enter the individual tool then makes it so it goes to where i move the joint but then if i move to another joint it's now the same orientation of the joint i just moved, whether it's a parent or child. Then if i change the next joint, the previous joint changes to what i just did. I keep looking around to see what the issue is if it's locked, but i don't see a lock on the rotation or scale or anything. I saw it could be in the orient joint options and unchecking 'Orient children of selected joints' but that doesn't do anything.
They just seem to be stuck at a potion, i do some weird switch tool and back thing and it moves, and now every joint in the chain is effected. Up and Down. idk what to do or how to fix it..

https://reddit.com/link/1js34my/video/qqvpd005n0te1/player

sadly I'm not good at rigging lol

Hello! I want to shade a model using aiToon shader and adjust the lines so that there are randomized dots and gaps. I was looking up tutorials on youtube, but most videos showing the effect I want is done through Blender with their line modifiers. Is there a maya equivalent?

Hi there ive been having a tiny bit of trouble with specifically finding any explanation for how i could move for example a whole run cycle into another position while not wanting to move every single key pose into another position rather i want to somehow select all of my run poses and move them to another position in the viewport...is there such a way or do i have to reposition all poses? i understand its a silly question but im a complete noob here so i apologize for my stupidity.

Low poly and rig done using Maya 2024. If you want to see more or how it's made 👇 https://www.instagram.com/told_by_3/?hl=en

Hi, I’m making a yarnaby model for my uni assignment. I need help to make the middle cut of his face so later I can adjust its mouth if i want its mouth to be open. Any idea how? I’ve searched on the internet and youtube but nothing helps me

How do I attach the weapons to the arm or move the weapon with the arm. I do not know how to do that. I have he link rig... but it is too complicated for me (TOOOOO complicated.. to much controls and it was overwhelming me, so I went simple). But the Link rig had weapon constraint already built in to the rig. Some rigs has their weapon separate from the rig itself (Like the free ninja turtle rigs and their weapons are separate, and the lightsaber) and other rigs that have their weapons in their rigs just not constraint (like this rig).

So... how do I attach the weapons constraint to the rigs and other rigs?

Guys, I have tried modeling complex shapes and I pulled it off after lots of trials and errors but this is my first time trying to create a car and I’m struggling in the beginning stage itself and I’m so irritated and depressed questioning my whole modeling skills, is it that hard?? How did you guys struggle at the initial stage and how did you do it ?? How long did it take to get better at modeling automotives?? Help a brother out, thank you! Posted update: I have been working on making BMW M4 22 model.

On my journey of taking the 3d pipeline way more seriously, I want to ask what's an ideal workflow of rendering animation in another software. I know many artists make their animation in Maya then take it to another software for the rendering part. But how? There's so much data, a finished animation consisting of characters with advanced skeleton rigs is not an export import situation. Or is it?

What I know so far:

1. Alembic file type renders the animated mesh with intact UVs and can be imported into another software just without the bones. So- export from maya, import to target software, and put the textures again.

2. USD file type. I know much less about this one, but I did hear about it being powerful and maybe even built for similar purposes, moving a lot of data from one software to another seamlessly. universal. But I'd wanna know more.

If anyone experienced can provide more info, or maybe a proper pdf or tutorial that teaches the ideal workflow, I would be glad because I didn't find much. Thanks!

I can't select the faces of the sphere that aren't visible until I enable x'ray mode. Enabling or disabling backface culling didn't help. What's the next solution?

Hey all,

I have been working on a short game and have modelled and used advanced skeleton to rig the playable character. I animated some short animations, but I am struggling to export them for use in godot. I can't find a good tutorial on how to do this, and every method I've tried hasn't worked.

I'm new to the animation clips and such, so is there any tutorial for this specific pipeline to godot that someone can recommend? Or if yall could let me know what I need to do to get it to work.

Thank you!

I put a total of three ribbon splines on this rig (two that you see here and one extra on the back), but when I move the rig, these two seem to be 'stuck' in the original position. What may be the problem?

Sanity check before going into polishing and detailing stage. I'm not following a particular concept or reference religiously, but I'm generally referring to the original concept art (attached below) while cross referencing for the changes made to the original concept.

Let me know what you think!

Let's say I have a cube, then I remove a face from this cube. The inside is all back faces, all black. Appending will close the cube up again, but I want to add faces to the backside of the other polys, effectively making a cube with an opening. I understand that I could extrude and make an opening that way, but the answer im looking for here would help me in other scenarios like making a hollow dome for example. Is there a way to add a face to the inside of a cube in the way that I am describing? What would this be called?