awesome model, you must have spent forever making those rims! Great job!!

I have a complex planar surface that won't render in mental ray 3. I keep getting this error message.

GAPT 0.2 warn 092052: degenerate trimming loop
GAPF 0.2 warn 092082: triangulation of...

Go to the hypergraph. (window->hypergraph). Click on the "input and output connections" button, and delete the bevel node from there. Or you can (still in the hypergraph) select your polycube and...

check out Tom Suurland's site for some great car orthographics. They're hand-drawn but still great references.
-http://www.suurland.com/

Is it true that the version of MASSIVE available to the public is a simplified version from the one used in the Lord of the Rings?

You should check out www.debevec.org/hdrshop for free HDR imaging software and some great HDR images. There are also tutorials. Learning-maya.com has all the tutorials for maya. Just check...

Sorry about that djwarder. I researched this a bit more and found out that
-Massive software was used to develop Lord of the Rings (of course).
-It was used to develop a music video by Radiohead....

Does anybody know how to create a translucency effect in shaders such as the translucency in ice? If so, plz post!

Could someone tell me where there are some good beginner tutorials especially for maya cloth

HOw do you make an object explode?

I am having some serious trouble installing plugins in maya. I downloaded maya bonus tools, and it said to unzip to the aliaswavefront/maya5.0 folder. I did this, and I don't know what to do next. ...

What is the best way to create visible rays of light in maya?

I can't help you there, but if you like Massive software you should check out the new movie Troy. There is also a music video, if forget what, that uses massive to simulate the people in a city. ...

thanks a lot. i couldn't figure that out

Could you post a picture of your scene as it is right now? I'd be able to see what you're talking about then.

Does anybody know how to change the background color in maya. I have 5.0, and it's a light gray color. How do I change that to a darker color?


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I used that tutorial also, and it was pretty useful but i want to know how to create a realistic shaped fire, and this only shows how to create a fire ring by using Maya's fire shader.

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How do I convert paint fx to polygons?

here is the first image. i put the spider together in about 20 minutes, and I rendered it in maya with an image plane of a cave

u need to work on body shape and propellors + engines a little too big. Otherwise, it looks fine.