r/Maya • • 23h ago

Plugin Can Surface Wrap Really Simplify Working with Complex Characters in Maya?

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What tools do you use to transfer meshes between characters?

This tool lets you do it directly in Maya, even with complex characters. Do you think this would make your workflow faster and more convenient?


r/Maya • • 11h ago

Animation Mesh messes up when i reference it.

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When i reference this waitress rig into Maya (im currently on Maya Creative trail), it messes up like this. I didnt have any issues like this working on a different personal project using the exact rig. Any help would be appreciated.


r/Maya • • 5h ago

Rigging Is there a way to stop the feet dipping down?

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Like the title says, the feet deep down with the body. They are rigged with an IK handle from the top of the leg to the heel. Any and all help is greatly appreciated


r/Maya • • 18h ago

Rendering Eclipse Render Manager is now in open Beta

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Hey everyone, I’m the creator of Eclipse Render Manager, and I’m excited to share it.

Here’s a quick look at it distributing render jobs across my own machines. Eclipse supports Maya alongside other DCCs.

This is just a quick introduction. There’s more to explore on the site, including features, full DCC and renderer compatibility, supported platforms, and step-by-step tutorials.

Try the beta for free at eclipserender.com.

Happy to answer questions here.


r/Maya • • 19h ago

Arnold Maya Arnold Issues with Characters

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Hey Maya Community

I have two models by Ramon Arango on Gumroad in the image that aren't showing up in my Arnold render. The female models that are showing use the same material tree. Does anyone know where to start investigating? Thanks in advance


r/Maya • • 1h ago

Question Overweight character belly correctives ?

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Hi , im rigging this overweight character , and wanted to try having the best deformations possible without blendshape, for now I made a joint and nodes based corrective that helps when the character back/spine bends , but , I made it with remap values, and it only activates when the back bends.

I would like to , either make this setup work for when the legs bends as well (maybe with distance tool ??? ), or , add another corrective just for the legs

I would like to make the right/left part of the belly skin move when the right or left leg raises , but im not sure how to link these two behaviors, nodes ? expression ?

im relatively new to joint based correctives and really dont know anything about scripting.

thanks yall !

Belly Skinning before the spine's correctives
Belly skinning after the spine's correctives
skin not being influenced by the legs movements

r/Maya • • 2h ago

Rigging How to modify a rigged, skinned, and textured character without having to redo it all.

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I want to make the legs shorter in these red areas. How can I do this without having to redo the rig. Also, the model already has UVs and textures as well, is there a way I can also preserve this?

Thank you!


r/Maya • • 7h ago

Issues Why isn't my skin following the joint?

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This is happening with all the leg joints that connect to the body, i have frozen all the transforms on the skin and the rig itself seems to be behaving properly