Quick tips, news

Blogs are the new black it seems. I don't have the energy to run 2 sites, but I've decided to make this front page a collection of latest quick tips, with links to the other sections as appropriate. If you're new here, browse the categories over on the left for various maya tidbits. Read about the background here, or signup for an account to add/fix things yourself.

Rendering Wiki

Haggi Krey is maintaining a wiki that covers rendering engines, techniques and theory. Tries to stay as objective as possible in comparing systems, pros and cons etc, very useful. http://www.wiki.render3d.de/

Framebuffers

Maya 2009 finally has proper framebuffer support, woo! Until we get our hands on it in october, here's how to achieve it with maya 2008. Needs custom shaders, a bit fiddly, but definitely useable in production. Find out more here, here and here and thank Aaron Grove for doing all the research and testing for us.

Two great maya sites

http://www.tgjay.com and http://www.djx.com.au/blog/ , go visit!

Poly loop and ring select shortcuts in maya 2008

Select an edge, press left or right arrow to select the edgeloop, or up/down to select the edgering. Press again and it'll select the next/previous ring/edge.

A proper mel wiki

Take a look at Eric Pavey MEL Wiki. Fantastic tips and howtos, covers some of the ground from the missing bryan ewert site.

Change of address

The wiki is at a new address, I've tried to setup an auto-redirect, but if that fails please update your bookmarks to the following:

http://www.tokeru.com/t