I'm using Maya 2012 with thirty fluid containers and the scene takes over 45 minutes to load.
What is taking so long to open the file? How can I reduce the time it takes to open the scene without removing the fluid containers?
A collegue of mine will save a file in Maya 2012 (a character model) yet, when I open the file, I only see the cameras and image planes. The HUD shows zero faces, verts, etc. When he opens the same file again, all the geometry appears.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to export from Illustrator to Photoshop I get the message, "Some containers need to be flattened". When I click okay and open it up in Photoshop, it's completely flattened.
I did some looking around and some people said that the appearance pannel causes it to be flattened? Well, as a test, I deleted all of my layers and just kept one button I made that had multiple objects. I raterized each one individually and tried to export it. In photoshop it was still flattened, but this time to a button layer and a dropshadow layer. Is the appearance pannel making everything in the appearance pannel a layer, and everything not in the appearance pannel another layer and just ignoring all of my objects?
How should I go about fixing this? I want to be able to export in as many formats as possible, but this has me stuck.
I've just landed some contract work where I will design glass forms/containers and render realistically. Also, I need to retain transparency so I change backgrounds.
I'm more adept with Photoshop than Illustrator, but would like input on who likes which program for this task, why, and where I can find excellent tutorials before I start spending my tutorials dollars.
I am trying to set Maya as the default program to .ma and .obj files but it won't accept it as the program, it just stays on something like photoshop. This also happens to .3ds files when trying to set them to Max.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can't open the saved files in MAYA 2012 in older versions of MAYA i.e. in 2008,2009,2010,2011..
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am working back in forth between school, and my home student version of Maya. I just downloaded Maya 2012, and I can not open a file in 2011 that was created in 2012?? I already opened the option box under OPEN, and selected ignore version. And it still doesn't work. I never had this problem last semester with 2011 files, working with 2010 Maya.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat is a good 3rd party application that can produce good fountain simulations? There are a variety of conditions, not just the kind that shoot straight up, but that flow in sheets and synchronize etc.
I have the need for right away and little time to deal with much of a learning curve. I've looked at Real Flow but too expensive, with a complex price scale.
I have been working with Maya and UDK for only a short period of time now, and am fairly new. I am looking to create a simple wardrobe in Maya that has interactable drawers that open and close. For Example, if you were to walk up to it and press "E" on your keyboard the drawers would open up, you could press "E" on it again and they would close back.
I would like to create a different animation for each drawer, and am confused about how to do that on a single model, if at all possible.
This youtube video is practically what I want, just with the animated opening and closing of the drawers on command http:[URL].......
How can I fix my LT so that I can draw fluid lines? At the moment the cursor jumps in increments across the screen as I move my cursor.
I can draw circles and rectangles fine (smooth, no lag) but straight lines are a nightmare. This also follows true with the "first line" of an elipse which is very jumpy.
Note: Brand new 3 day old HP 6550b ProBook, running windows 7.
I downloaded the trial version and have been messing with it for a couple of days..I really wanted to like it but I'm not jazzed in the least. Sure it works as does knockout and the extraction tool, but you seem to need to spend more time cleaning it up..why bother with a $300+ program if it doesn't seem to simplify the operation?
I'd rather do it one time with the Quick Mask and know its going to be smooth...and as for flyaway hair...extract seems to work as well as any. Has anybody have an real success with this program?
Is Fluid Mask 3 the best Knockout Plug-ins for Photoshop,
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have one layer with some outlines, everything is colored WHITE now. How can I change the color of this? The outlines is too thin and detailed to use the CTRL+U and drag the things, nothing will change.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've seen these all over but I'm not sure if they are created with Photoshop or some other graphics program. Any ideas?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do I load the fluid mask plugin?
I got it in the plugin folder and one is installed from their website.
I made an animation of a small prototype engine I am designing (attached as video 3) and I would like to be able to show fluid flowing in from the injector and into the cylinder, through the dumbbell valve and out the bottom, autodesk inventor does not seem to have this capability and its looking like my only option is to learn 3ds max and rebuild my animation in that.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThe Fluid mask installer doesn't recognize Photoshop 6. I selected other and tried to put the “Vertus Fluid Mask 3” folder that contains the files dbghelper.dll & FluidMask3.8bf into the Photoshop 6’s plugins directory. It’s not available within Photoshop.
It does however function as a freestanding program so I know it works on the computer. It also worked very well under CS5.I’m sure Vertus will get around to upgrading, but I’d like to be able to use it with my current projects and not have to wait for them.
UPDATE: The above procedure works for the 32 Bit install of CS6... Not with the 64Bit.... would like it to work with 64bit since I edit some sizable files
Been trying to recreate the comic-like effect used in Max Payne cut-scenes, how to make something like this out of a real picture... Cause the way I see it, they've taken real photographs and fixed them... or are these real drawings?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was trying out the referencing in 3dsmax and i noticed you cant select the object, is there a way to reference an entire scene and be able to do edits like maya? I know you could with containers but containers are only by objects.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWould I be correct in assuming that an HDR map is useless in an interior scene with no outside light source (but interior lights would be used)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow easy is it to migrate third-party plug-ins such as Vertus Fluid Mask to Photoshop CC?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have started creating layouts in photoshop cs3 and i was wondering if there is an easy way to save my layouts as fluid width, as opppsed to fixed, so they resize according to the browser window. is css the only way to go?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am importing some .avi files and burning to a disc. Most of the .avi clips are fine on the DVD, but two that have panning sequences are very jerky. I checked the source .avi files and they pan smoothly.
I've explored changing the Speed to Quality slider and also the Frame Type (Upper/Lower field first) setting to no avail.
AVI Clip Properties:
File Format: Microsoft AVI files
File Size: 13,513 KB
Frame rate: 23.976 frames/sec
Duration: 62.479 seconds
Data rate: 215.01 kbps
Video
Compression: ffdshow Video Decoder
Attributes: 24 bits, 720x404
Total Frames: 1,498 frame(s)
[code].....
I'm facing a serious problem with my Co-rel x2 in getting it to cut some inappropriate scenes from an episode of AVI type stuff. The thing is after scanning and deleting the unwanted plans, I cant save the separated selected project as a whole ; and what is worse, the voice is completely gets out of whack! I am desperate and don't know what to do!
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently converted from Sketchup 8 to 3DS and I've been trying to render some scenes with Vray but they all come out super grainy, like the rendering has a layer of noise on top of it. I have a lot of experience with Vray for Sketchhup and have never encountered this. I attached an example.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a good lightning solution to use in a number of scenes. I looked at Draper's pflow lightning setup but could not get it to work correctly.. in the short framecount I need it to occur.It looked great but only over 600 frames.
I am animating splines and I think I can get that to work ok.. but
I have 2 files that are acting weird. They were created earlier this summer but when I open them now, 99.9% of the geometry is invisible with nitrous and the file is very laggy. I want to get an alphabetized list of the geometry so I can start merging in pieces and keep track of what I'm doing.
Any way to export a list like that?? Or better yet..how to trouble shoot the bad files?
I get a warning when I open another max scene on another machine here at work, it says:
"The MassFX authored in this file was created with a newer version of the plugins. Forward compatibility is not supported so things might not behave properly."
I am currently using PhysX for Max version: 2.7.1.0202.1800 and PhysX System Software 9.11.0621.
Third party plugins installed for Max being used in the scene are: Rayfire 1.57.10; Orbaz Particle Flow Box #2 ver. 1.07 and #3 ver. 1.53. I've gotten this warning in scenes saved from another PC, opened in another, and not even using any PhysX or PhysX capable plugins.
I have got some levels for games I'm working on and a lot of the items have to seal off perfectly, etc etc.
I often cannot snap to any item in an XRef Scene under some circumstances. I think that these are scenes that are failing because some are referencing each other and access stops for some reason...
In the examples:
Scene 1: Referencing Scenes 2 & 3
Scene 2: Referencing Scenes 1 & 3
Scene 3: Referencing Scenes 1 & 2
When editing Scene 2, I am able to snap to Scene 3, but not Scene 1. I don't know if it's something about a reference being an overlay (which all are) and the ordering it loads... I know that in the XRef Scene dialog it lists them (in example above) as Scene 3 above Scene 1 ... but I have not experimented with removing one and inputting them in another order... since it seems that any time I delete a scene from the list in an XRef scene dialog, Max crashes.
Developer of Wall Worm - the 3ds Max Pipeline for the Source Game Engine
CorVex Level Design Plugin
3ds Max 4/Gmax - 3ds Max 2014
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i7 930
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Geforce 480x2
I am running Softimage XSI 7.5 Mod Tool on a Windows Vista 32 bit. I cannot open any of my saved scenes, when I do I get an error.
I have done some research and found two things, one, that using a registry fix for windows is the cause of this problem, and two, that the fix to this error is to run the "runonce.bat" file from the "bin" directory. I used a registry fix recently that not only didn't seem to improve my computers performance, but it also stopped XSI from working properly. Apparently lot's of people have had this problem and the fix is fairly simple.
However, when I ran the runonce.bat file, it failed to work, I ran it again this time with a command to produce an error log, and this error came up on about the 25th line: "oleaut32.dll: Registration failed; Result == E_ACCESSDENIED".
Here's where it get's confusing. I created a second windows user, this one not an administrator, logged onto it, and ran runonce.bat. It did not produce the error seen above and instead, when I run XSI from the second user, I can load scenes just fine. But I log back onto the admin account, and the problem persists.
Obviously I'd like to be able to use XSI from my admin account like normal, instead of having to use an "XSI" account. I am fairly certain that runonce.bat's error "oleaut32.dll: Registration failed; Result == E_ACCESSDENIED" is the reason that runonce.bat seems to have no effect.
While working in a drawing xrefs that are attached to that drawing are getting saved "behind the scenes" by AutoCAD.
Specifically one instance was a user changed his working annotative scale while in model space, and this caused all of the attached xrefs to re-save themselves (you could watch the files update in Windows Explorer). He did not save the drawing he was in, just changed the annotative scale. This is worrisome in that we are still between 2011 and 2012 on some projects and I'm worried that a user opens a drawing from a 2011 project in 2012 to look at something and in the background even though he doesn't save that drawing, the base xrefs will get updated to 2012, forcing an unplanned version upgrade for Civil 3D objects.
