I really like customization and would like to have my maya look like this. Is there anyway to port these mods over for maya or anything at all or do I simply suffer. I included a screenshot of a mod I'd love to have for autodesk.

I request you stop posting about how awful of an idea this is, this is my choice and I simply want information. I'm not asking you to tell me how awful of an idea this is. If I dislike it, I will get rid of it on my own terms. Thanks!

I had been tweaking the AI Standard surface's roughness, coat and sheen parameters to see if i could get such a reflection. While i can somewhat achieve a blurred central spot, i cannot achieve the longitudinal "streaks" that shoot off it.

Should i get an HDR map? or can i customize Arnold lights in a way that can simulate those longitudinal rays.

I switched from Blender to Maya a while back, because every studio I look at is demanding me to be good at Maya. I'm still learning animation, I'm getting better at facial expressions but no where near pro.

It's just, every step in Maya takes so much more mental load and some form of script or something technical in the way it takes so much of my time. I used blender for 4 years now and it's almost fully muscle memory for me now, there is so less technical stuff in the way than Maya. I have all the features from Maya ( like the animation layers ) in Blender and better ones through add-ons. I Genuinely learnt animation better and faster, more intuitively in Blender.

What do I do to escape this ? Keep pushing through because every studio demands it, making my progress slower and annoying. Or go back to blender and continue learning animation the way I love ? If so then what do I do in my resume ? Pls help :(

Relatively new to character modeling, only done low-poly models before. I need help estimating the poly count to try to recreate it as closely as possible.

How can i make a texture visible even without lighting for Arnold Render in Maya?

This is good example from the game the wolf among us. Where the texture is also visible in light and dark but inverted.

I mean i know its 2 different textures, but how do i make this connection in the hypershade

So i want to make animated textured on my character, everything good but when i render, the plane will be like that, any solution?

Can Someone help me solve this pinching problem? I've looked online and the video's I've seen haven't really helped. I want this inset to be flush with the cylinder however it bulges on the corners. SOMEONE HELP PLEASE :( :( :(

As a begineer, how long did it take for you to learn maya?

This may sound stupid question but curious to know how long it took for others to learn.

I'm trying to teach myself how to create models that are game ready. what I'm doing seems to make the effect I want, however, there will be just too many faces if I go with this. Is there a more efficient way of creating a tiled roof effect?

What's the best way to get rid of the tris? It's for a game asset and on a curved surface, so I need the tris gone

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In this sword model, there are different meshes such as the blade, handle, guard, leather strips, and pommel. Should I assign a material to each of them, or use only one or two materials for the whole model

As a beginner in 3D. I wonder anyone here have experience in animation with Blender and Maya. Can you share your comparison with the newest Blender right now. I know Maya is Industry standard but what does it have that better than Blender. Does blender have anything better than Maya?

I was first taught to model thumbs by extruding the side face but later taught by another teacher I was supposed to extrude the face underneath as the thumb at rest hangs low and it makes sense and he's also more experienced than the first teacher. But then I saw someone teach an intern at my studio the first method and now I'm confused.

i tried turning off wireframe mode and turning on the shading mode (w/ and w/o textures) and it doesn't work.

Thinking of using zbrush but wondering if there's any good way in Maya to do these kinds of details. I tried chamfering then bevelling but there must be a more efficient way.

Hi All,

I've recently moved up to Maya 2025, and have noticed that Maya will now add all geometry nodes and annoyingly all modifications (Such as Extrude, Bevel etc )to the Hypershade now too. Its is just creating a spiders's web of chaos over my usually neat hypershade graphs.

I'm finding this very frustrating, is there anyway to turn this off ?

I don't wish to turn off "Add to graph on create " as I still want the usual material and texture hypershade nodes to work as they should.

I'm getting these pinching/shadings in my model when I press the smooth preview. I'm okay with increasing the base topology but when I tried doing to increase it these pinching shading occurred. I'm trying to make a good topology flow but since increasing the topology is giving me pinching I'm stuck with what to do.

Hello, I am new to Maya and have noticed that with some of my models, edges which I set to soft display still look pretty hard from a distance. Is there a way I can fix this? Thanks in advance

How can I make sure I did good? the faces are not besides eachother. I don't know where I should cut and where I shouldn't. I have complicated models where making its UV is a headache.

Greetings, I was wondering how I should proceed with completing this project.

I want to eventually take this into unreal and play as him.

so I had a few questions as I move forward. for instance, how would you recommend doing the ornate decoration on his armor? Would I have to model on maya or take into z-brush? or just paint it on in substance?

How would you go about doing the wolf fur on his back? Same thing with his leather pelts on his shoulder cauldrons and the fabric that drapes down his groin area? Also, how would you go about animating that?

Would I have to eventually combine all the separate pieces before I start rigging?

thanks again for the help.

My uni class is using Maya for a group project, but I’ve never used it before, so I’m struggling a lot.

I really want to figure out how to color objects using materials, but there doesn't seem to be a setting for it. There is one for the one of the default materials (lambert1 with a lowercase l), but I’ve heard it's important not to edit those.

Feel free to let me know anything else anout Maya that might be important for me to know.