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Looping Sections of Animation

Hello,

I'm working on an animation of a dog that runs circles around another character. I want the dog to run around her twice before sitting down in front of her. I have animated him going around her once, but I'm wondering if there is anyway to loop the key frames in a certain section of the animation.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. I will include my work in progress. I have used cycling animation in the graph editor to make a walk cycle before but do not have much experience with it otherwise.

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2024/03/10
19:16 UTC

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Need help in improving Edge flow. Why is the edge flowing like this instead of how I marked it (green arrow) ? How do I make it flow like how marked it.

5 Comments
2024/03/10
18:57 UTC

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Preserve 3d ratios does not work in Maya for UV layout, any idea why?

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2024/03/10
17:50 UTC

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SHATTERED WORLDS - Short fantasy / horror animated film.

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2024/03/10
16:59 UTC

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ORANGE PICCOLO..... WIP .... using arnold after 4 years ..never disappoints me....let me knw what u guys think?? give me ur Critiques

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2024/03/10
14:51 UTC

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how do you make a hand and an object interact ?

i'm trying to find a way to make it so that when i put the hands of my character on a sphere for exemple, it stops and goes around the shape of the sphere instead of going through it

idk if it makes sense, but i haven't found anything useful online and i don't really know how to describe it better

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2024/03/10
14:04 UTC

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Aang animation 👹

Hiii! I’m working on this exercise for school, this is just the BLK stage but that’s basically all I’ve got to do for now. I’d love it if you could give me some feedback and tips ✨💓

5 Comments
2024/03/10
11:30 UTC

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Using MEL for xgen

Does anybody have any experience using MEL in maya, specifically to use it for xgen hair spline generation. This is pretty important for me as I need to learn it for a uni assignment, so any help would be appreciated

0 Comments
2024/03/10
10:58 UTC

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Does anybody know why preserve 3D ratios wouldn’t work and how to fix it?

I am trying to layout UVs but preserve 3D ratios doesn’t work properly anymore. Texel density is not appropriate to how much space the object takes in the 3D view. For example a flower pot in my scene has 3x the density that the whole flooring has.

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2024/03/10
09:07 UTC

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The model looks weird in maya 2023

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2024/03/10
06:13 UTC

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texturing

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2024/03/10
04:26 UTC

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Hair is not showing when rendered in Arnold

Hello everyone, I was following a quick exercise/tutorial a teacher recorded on hair, everything's good except for the fact that the hair is simply not showing on the render view, I'm using the ai standard hair, I checked everything and re-done it a few times already and it keeps happening, maybe I'm just skipping something or maya is not working with me today :P

Maya vers. 2023 AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Nvidia RTX 3050

https://preview.redd.it/xv0f3eugmfnc1.png?width=1763&format=png&auto=webp&s=64dfea458dbd05dff69a7a2a5467cd62c875a9c0

https://preview.redd.it/ck8vnqjanfnc1.png?width=1417&format=png&auto=webp&s=e04f4f490367b99d1c43fb8120f856eff80708d0

https://preview.redd.it/iu29f57mmfnc1.png?width=408&format=png&auto=webp&s=e443ddfe4e982a6447b7562a8685181e897f10db

0 Comments
2024/03/10
04:19 UTC

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How do I hide the controllers in the viewport?

Hi ! Obviously very new to maya, was wondering what was the shortcut to hide and unhide the controllers, cameras and all that stuff so I can view better my work. Thanks in advance !

1 Comment
2024/03/10
03:54 UTC

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Looking for Feedback on Pose and Composition

6 Comments
2024/03/10
03:37 UTC

21

Issue in bridge faces

Anyone can help? Because I can’t bridge the faces properly as it’s shrink and I’m not sure where’s the problem

17 Comments
2024/03/10
02:47 UTC

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Suggestions on how to light this scene to match the concept art?

Hello Everyone!

I'm a third year student and this is one of my big final projects. I'm done with the modelling/UV Unwrapping part so now I'm left the texturing and composite of my scene. I was wondering if anyone with experience can give me some advise or suggestions regarding my scene, what approach for the lighting could be best so it can match the concept art. I would also appreciate comments on my process so far! :) thank you all.

I was also wondering if I should texture the assets darker or lighter? because I know the lighting is going to affect them later on.

Concept Art

Render_View

Perspective_View

2 Comments
2024/03/10
02:34 UTC

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Are there any good texturing tutorials out there?

I can't seem to find any decent texturing tutorial on YouTube, they're all explained like r/restofthefuckingowl. Most of the videos are confusing either because the teacher refuses to explain the basics (they immediately jump into the complicated stuff) or the teacher sometimes gets carried away (i.e. they'll be explaining something then they just stop talking and mumble phrases like "oops, that doesn't seem right" or "hmmm, maybe a little tweak over here").

What are the best texturing tutorials out there? Videos or PDFs, I have no preference.

2 Comments
2024/03/10
00:24 UTC

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Indiana Jones Style Map Animation

I need to animate a Indiana Jones style map animation for a documentary I'm working in for school. I've animated in maya before and done 3d modeling but am unsure of to animate along a curve that fills in as the subject follows the curve. Any suggestions?

0 Comments
2024/03/10
00:02 UTC

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Arnold render to texture results in texture problems at mesh intersection

On the first pic is the mesh Im baking, just 2 cylinders, aistandardsurface, solid color and nothing else. As you can see on the resulting texture there is purple on the black object and black on the purple object, it's at where the 2 cylinders touch. By the way I disabled everything under arnold/visibility on the mesh except for primary visibility. Anyone know how I can fix this?

the object

the resulting texture

6 Comments
2024/03/09
23:07 UTC

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Syntax Error

Hey guys, when I boot up my maya 2024, I get this following error: //Error: Line 1.43: Syntax Error - what does this mean and how do I fix it? When I click the pop up window it gives me the below error data.

https://preview.redd.it/3id5ajzyydnc1.png?width=1151&format=png&auto=webp&s=18a444535cb174f73ee0cdc8b050ae68330ce26c

https://preview.redd.it/9qvy2r47zdnc1.png?width=1049&format=png&auto=webp&s=0693945518fab5eeeebdcd43155d23bd8f60ad14

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2024/03/09
22:39 UTC

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Hello. There's a problem. Arnold doesn't want to display displacement in any way. I rechecked all connections, everything is correct. But there is no result in the render, no matter what intensity I set. What could be the problem ? Everything worked fine before.

14 Comments
2024/03/09
21:15 UTC

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what's wrong with my Quad Draw?🥲

15 Comments
2024/03/09
20:52 UTC

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obviously ignoring the walls, is this a good enough distoriton?

13 Comments
2024/03/09
19:59 UTC

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worse CPU/memory load distribution when rendering in Windows 11?

Has anyone noticed a difference in how your system behaves while rendering since upgrading from win10 to win11?

I upgraded from windows 10 to 11 recently and I immediately noticed that now whenever I start an Arnold render (CPU) while I have a video open on the other screen in Firefox, the video starts freezing and the sound starts stuttering heavily. It usually gets better if I click anywhere on the Firefox window, switching focus to it. I don't know if it's a CPU or memory issue.

I used to be able to do a whole render with videos running in the background with no stuttering. What gives? I also tried setting 2 less threads than my cpu's threads in the render settings but it didn't make the stuttering go away.

3 Comments
2024/03/09
19:09 UTC

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WIP of a Borderlands-esque monster book for a 3d class. Wondering if there is something i could do with the monster to make it better :) (coloring in photoshop, will get to substance if this is good enough)

1 Comment
2024/03/09
19:07 UTC

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Rig test

Hi i just finished a quadruped rig and i need some animators input, where could i find it or are there any good tutorials for a quadruped walk - run cycle?

1 Comment
2024/03/09
19:04 UTC

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2024/03/09
15:52 UTC

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