Panelize

Panelize

Very simple script, but useful for what it is. It's basically just a prompt dialogue shortcut to thickness and offset. A very quick way to make panels, especially if you use linear subdivides in Maya with this multiple times. Unfortunately though, this requires Maya 2012 though due to the thickness attribute... Continue Reading
Edge Length

Edge Length

Here's an edge length script that will return the values of an edge(s) in metres and millimetres to the status line. Of course feel free...

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Automatically Assign V-Ray File Path Cache

Automatically Assign V-Ray File Path Cache

Here's some quick code so Maya will automatically fill out the tedious Irradiance Map Cache file name paths and Light Cache File paths for V-Ray. ...

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Batch converting Max files to Maya

Batch converting Max files to Maya

Recently I worked on a project that required converting hundreds of models in 3DS .Max format to Maya. Instead of doing all this importing manually it's...

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Thumbnail Support for CG Formats in Windows x64

Thumbnail Support for CG Formats in Windows x64

The other day I took the plunge, departed with $15 USD, and bought FastPictureViewer Codec Pack for Windows 7 x64. I couldn't be happier. ...

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Render View / V-Ray Framebuffer Shortcut

Render View / V-Ray Framebuffer Shortcut

Sometimes when using V-Ray I do not want to use the framebuffer (initial test renders mainly). However sometimes I do actually want to use it....

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Maya + mental ray ArchViz Guide

Maya + mental ray ArchViz Guide

I'm not normally one to use mental ray for a project these days, but I thought I should share this wonderful guide that Alex Sandri has...

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Manipulator Axis Orientation Shortcut

Manipulator Axis Orientation Shortcut

After getting a little tired of using Maya's marking menus when changing the manipulator's axis to "Set To Edge" or "Set To Face" all the...

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Texture Based Instancing In Maya

Texture Based Instancing In Maya

While I have previously mentioned a ray-cast geometry based instancing script, this script gets the same result but the process is very different. rvInstancer is...

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