TriPlanar Projection Mapping

Ever received a massive CAD model with lots of walls that need to be textured and unwrapped with some sort of tile-able material? Not to...

September 14
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Scaling V-Ray lights

There are a few methods to scale lights in Maya. Using the scale tool will do fine with the Maya Software renderer and even some...

July 10
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Skydome Rig

I’m a really big fan of using HDR images for lighting outdoor scenes. (Check out this tutorial from Peter Guthrie if you haven’t...

July 3
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Enable History in V-Ray for Maya

The V-Ray frame-buffer comes with a really nice feature that enables you to save previous renders, however by default this option is disabled. Obviously there are...

April 8
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Maya 2011 Classic UI

Since Maya now uses the very flexible Qt framework, it means that certain "themes" are now available to Maya simply by adding in a little...

April 1
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Custom Maya Projects

You don't always have to use the default project set-up that ships with Maya! If you have ever found yourself consistently deleting folders or adding in...

February 27
3 Comments

Lens Correction In Maya

In real life, some photographic lenses on certain cameras can move horizontally and vertically in order to control what's known as the Key-Stoning Effect....

July 27
4 Comments

Leaf Tests With mental ray

Trees. ugh. Anyway, I'm trying to find a nice setting for the mia_material_x mats for foliage/leaves in mental ray. It's quite difficult to find settings that...