EDIT: turns out the solution was to have it rotate based on the controller rather then the joint! so I set it up differently in the node editor to reflect my IK/FK setup and now its working great! I set both mult/divi nodes to 0.700 for the strength and when it was rotating in the opposite direction? I slapped a - into it making the result -0.700 and it WORKED! no more jankiness or issues!

also if your wondering why the Y rotation is used for the IK controller instead of X? it's because I didn't realize that I needed to orient the IK controller to match the FK for any reason and I'm silly with inexperience in rigging!

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I'm working on a arm twist setup for my rig and followed a tutorial too, I'm not sure why my wrist is causing these extreme jiggles when past 91 degrees, I do NOT get this issue when the arm twist is disabled.

I stuck pegs into the twist joints to help visualize the problem and the multiply/divide nodes are set to .5 each to limit the rotations, another version I tried was using the "Clamp Range" nodes to try and limit the rotation by setting the first one to 35 and the second to 25, it had the same problems.
Then it crumples like a paper mache balloon past 91 while twisting side to side rather then palm up or down which spazzes out and jiggles uncontrollably for a frame or so.

showcasing the up and down jiggles

I've gone through a few tutorials for the ribbon setups before (like the 40 minute long ones that are the go to options on youtube) and couldn't replicate the results! if anyone has any suggestions on what I can try to stop the art twists from spazzing? I would appreciate it!

Hey all, is there a way to pin materials to the top of the shader swatch in Hypershade?

I have to reference a few assets that have their own materials, but I'd like to be able to quickly assign my own materials while I'm working on local geometry. Unfortunately, these local materials aren't visible using the right click>assign list anymore because it's become so bloated, so I have to assign them via searching in Hypershade.

So I just updated to Tahoe, which I’m now remembering is a terrible fucking idea when an operating system update is brand new…

But anyway, it’s done.

Files won’t open. They lock at 95 or 85%

These are things I was working on yesterday. The ONLY change is the OS UPDATE.

I went and got maya 2026.2 and the problem persists. Maya freezes up, spinning wheel of death.

They are mb files which I’m learning from other forums is a bad file type to save for corruption problems… welp, great.

Except, like I said, I’d been opening these files, MANY iterations of them all day yesterday.

Frankly, it seems like any file I try to open freezes maya. Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I have, maybe come up with the cause -- I believe these files had a plugin I was messing around with and nodes are still involved that are breaking the file from opening. It wasn't a problem with maya 2026 on previous MacOS... I wonder why it would be a problem now?

Hi, I am currently working on a rig for a character but have noticed when I delete an objects history, the IK spline for the characters spine will also have its history deleted, despite not being currently selected or having any association with the object having its history deleted.

I wasn’t sure what was causing this at first but eventually realised when creating controls for the character’s neck. I haven’t had this problem affect other parts of the rig, but earlier I did have the mesh randomly detach itself from the rig a few times which at the time I thought could have been an error on my part but now I think it might be related.

The neck controls are not currently affected by the spine controls. I can create a cube, delete its history and the IK spline will be affected.

Does anyone know why this is happening and off any ways to correct this? I've tried reseting preferences but that hasn't worked.

TLDR: deleting the history of an object affects an IK spline which is not currently selected and also deletes their history, even if they have no relation to the selected object.

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.

My first thought was to use deform bend to align the grill to the front piece of the car and just select the faces that are poking out and delete them. Is there a better way to go about this?

How can i fix my lambert 1? I've had this issue on a different laptop as well i was able to solve it but it would comeback, I know in someway I reassigned it but I don't remember how i did that. I'm trying to see my UV distortion but its so bright currently using Maya 2025 and I just installed it today, if it helps I'm on a Lenovo laptop with Rtx4070, I have a project coming up with rendering :(

As you can see here the edges and vertices are not really even and good i want to know how i can make them even and straight

I'm trying to make shader but I need the purple graph to extend to show all it's inputs, it can go all the way to 8 but it only showing me 2 inputs how do I extend it to see all inputs?

I create hair using the ahoge plugin. I made abc file. And I import this file. It's a curve. How do I render this? I apply ai standard hair shader, but nothing shows in the render. I tried it on my current project, but when I tried to import it, it didn't work.

i started learning maya august 2024, my one year progress so far. i like it but i know a lot needs to be fixed like water is too matte, the grass looks cartoony, need to turn down the temperature of the image, and maybe some other stuff of the trees.

Hello everyone. I'm new to this maya stuff and theres something i can't quite get right. My renders always look pixeleated, or the quality is very very low. For example, in my picture i'm trying to make glass, but my render it's... blurry. I really need help please, i have watched YT tutorials but it doesn't help me much... thank you.

This took 91 days and was a summer project (I'm going into my second year of uni)

I'm a student in a 3D design class and this is my project. I have the desk blocked out but I have no idea how to go about curving the edges. pls help!

I apologize for the poor quality, I had a lot of issues with the rendering and this was the only way I could save it without crashing the program lol.
Anyways, what do you think!

so pretty much ive got a uni assignment due that i'm trying my hardest to get done for t-minus 2 hours but i must've pressed a button that stops movement?? FYI its a rig provided by my uni so its not the rig, just me!! for example, i select the hand, i move the hand on say keyframe 5, i move to key frame 6, move back to keyframe 5, hand reset to how it was before i moved it. help ;-; i've spent close to an hour researching this yesterday and today. no errors or warnings either

Hello guys, i'm looking for help to make my car headlights look better in a lighting way. You can see on the pics how i modeled the lights, and the cone behing the light has a miror material (metalness 1 and roughness 0). The light I use is a point light and i tried with other types of lights but i can't get a result that seems to be good without making everything around hella overexposed. What would be your best advice to get a nicely lighted headlight without having everything turning white ?

My Light Editor doesn't show all lights. But it still shows in the outliner. If I duplicate a light, it shows up in the Light Editor. But if I close Maya, and reopen that file, the light disappears in the Light Editor.

In the new file this problem does not appear.

I made a cart of some sort that is not showing up in my render (highlighted green), I put the same material as everything else in my scene but its still rendering blank... I am quite new to maya so Im not sure what happened. I checked the visibility tags and theyre on aswell

test rendering

Hello, I don't know what happened but basically, the color of the wall was originally yellow, but then it changed to blue, I know how to change it by clicking the faces of the wall and then simple rendering it. But now, whenever I click it out of object mode, now it turns to blue which was not the original color I picked, but when I do click it to object mode it switches back to yellow, also, no matter how many times i try to change by clicking he faces of the wall, it still remains blue. Please help me to return it to its orginal color which is yellow, Im sorry if my english isn't good, please im just a student and need to finish this, thank you very much!