Brothers, and Sisters,

I hooked up with said Maya 8 around about 06 or such, and as I was smoking way to many camels (so it seems), and tipping all manner of cold drinks, I have yet to fire the hog up.

Now, what about three years later, I’m about to crash into a mosh pit of 3D leaning, and wow, I’m here seeing that all are running 8.5…

Throw me a bone if you would, a Jack bird bit of “oh, I see...”

What is the story?

Do I have to buy another version? Is this an upgrade?

Wow? I wonder.

Additionally, I’m all about running mac 0S 10.5.4—kicking Jack bird Leopard can I do such?

Having just scratched around with this action, having launched the software and tried a few deal, I suffered… yeah… yes, I suffered a few crashes… Plaster that on your action.

Crash and burn.

Any wisdom my way would be killer cool.

Durant “fire a shot over the side” Hapke

Brothers, and Sisters,

Bring it.

Another active action question.... What about this?

Exported a OBJ file from SketchUp—a kick killer little test of this gland hook deal I created—and imported it into said Maya…

I’m all bout it so far… Light a fresh one and continue....

Now I move the gland hook to the left, and BANG! Check it! A weird wire frame “action shadow” remains… Weird it is…

I tried all manner of this and that to kick it out, erase it, save another copy and re-open… I exported just the selected model, and re-opened…

It remains…

Any instruction on destroying this awful “shadow?”

Then bring that, and pour a cold one....

Durant “fire naives” Hapke

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Brothers, and Sisters,

Jack bird bring it…

Or perhaps not…

Not bringing it appears to be the nature of this forum…

Very sad…

Wondering what the Jack bird kind of deal this is…

Durant “well gee, I guess I’ll go drink” Hapke

PS—Attached not rendered in Maya…

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Brothers, and Sisters,

Jack bird bring that, bring that modeling goodness…

So, wondering as it were—that being as I kick back for a tall one—wondering if this is the kind of forum where, say, different artists, and designers, industry people of all manner, students, you get the picture, people using Maya share information and such…

Seems perhaps not…

Quite disappointing.

Durant “fire it into space” Hapke

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I have no idea what you’re talking about, but your images are really cool.

Durant Hapke 17 September 2008 08:54 PM

Brothers, and Sisters,

I hooked up with said Maya 8 around about 06 or such, and as I was smoking way to many camels (so it seems), and tipping all manner of cold drinks, I have yet to fire the hog up.

Now, what about three years later, I’m about to crash into a mosh pit of 3D leaning, and wow, I’m here seeing that all are running 8.5…

Throw me a bone if you would, a Jack bird bit of “oh, I see...”

What is the story?

Do I have to buy another version? Is this an upgrade?

Wow? I wonder.

Additionally, I’m all about running mac 0S 10.5.4—kicking Jack bird Leopard can I do such?

Having just scratched around with this action, having launched the software and tried a few deal, I suffered… yeah… yes, I suffered a few crashes… Plaster that on your action.

Crash and burn.

Any wisdom my way would be killer cool.

Durant “fire a shot over the side” Hapke

Well your images are pretty cool.

8.5 to 2009 (the current version), isn’t necessary but it it is a pretty good upgrade. Visit autodesk.com/maya for more info.

-Austin: Using Maya 2009
My CGSociety Portfolio
IRC Nick: AustinZ

ditto
no idea what your asking here…

perhaps you could stick to a more, ‘traditional’, form of english we’re familiar with?

n8skow [FA]

Brothers, and Sisters,

Bringing the Jack bird “bring it” and feeling the 3D power of evolution.

Yeah, baby, it’s all here.

In a black and white blink form:

I, Durant Hapke, or if you prefer, D the F H, have a full registered version of Maya 8 that was loaded onto my G5 Mac in 1986 when it was running Tiger.

At the time I installed it, I got distracted with a lot of drinking and smoking of Camels, so didn’t get around to learning anything much about it until about a month ago.

Subsequently, I have installed Leopard.

Since my interest in Maya has returned big guns, I’ve been tickling it, and working that Maya action, but have been experiencing a lot of crashing of the program (Maya that is)—sometimes mid render—some times when closing out of the Jack bird program.

Question 1:

It this version, Maya 8, compatible with Leopard?

Question 2:

Are there known compatibility issues regarding Maya 8 and the change over to Mac OS 10.5?

Question 3:

Is Maya 8.5 and upgrade, or an entirely new release of Maya?

Question 4:

On a more nuts and boults work flow level, when I import OBJ files to Maya, they open properly, but once I move them (inside Maya—see example in my second post above) there is a “ghost” or “shadow” of the models wire frame that remains in the location where the model was originally positioned on import.

Exacerbating this reality, I am unable to select or delete said “shadow wire frame” or remove it by any other means I can conceive of such as renaming and saving the model in a different file format (in this case, the OBJ files are being exported from SketchUp).

Therefore, the question I am asking is: is this a known issue, and/or is there a work around?

Question 5:

Is this user community the only one, or is there one I should know about that is fun, insightful and interactive?

This is the state of my life, thank you for taking the time to read and respond.

So, now back to the real themes of existence—bring that and bring me a sandwich.

Get funky with your brain Jack magic.

Share my “meta-kink” feelings of love and creativity, and if you want to smoke, do it with gusto.

When I was young, I was hitting on this girl who still lived with her folks on a farm (at that time, her dad was a freak jerk, he never took his eye off me, but he ended up being cool later on when my interest in his daughter had fizzled—we bumped into each other at a wedding and totally pounded cocktails. He was a Copenhagen man, always had a lip full, and when he grinned it looked like his teeth were carved out of cork or something soft and pitted like that), anyway, this girls name was Irma, and we snuck out a few times and went skinny dipping at the lake (her rotten mouth dad kept a big ladder in the back of the barn, so I’d only have to drag the hog thirty feet or so, then tip it up to her window).

So, we where messing around in the water and I felt something with my foot, just under the sand. When I pulled it up, it was this old pistol (a lot like the one I’ve modeled). The cylinder was missing and it had been pounded against a rock or something until the trigger guard was all bent and screwed up. It must have been there a long ass time, the sucker was totally rusted (the thing really freaked out Irma, which ended up being awesome).

Anyway, the next day I let it dry out in the sun on the hood of my car (a funky 66 New Yorker I was driving at the time - great for the drive in, huge front seat with no arm rests—why do all cars have arm rests now? I drive this green pick up these days and when I have to go a good long distance, to party down South or something, my arm always goes to sleep). Anyway, when the gun dried, I tried to scrape off some of the rust, but the thing just stunk—I mean the handle or the rust, or what the hell, it just smelled awful.

Now, this is where it gets weird, the next time I went over to Irma’s place (her mom made killer pie, green apple with cheese - awesome), I had the thing in the car, and old grunt mouth pops is watching the ball game, when he turns to me and says, “Irma tells me you found a smelly gun, mind if I take a look at it, I think it might be haunted.” Now, I’ve heard some very strange stuff, but who’s ever heard of a haunted gun? Well, I was still trying to make time with the dudes daughter and I didn’t want to get him any more angry at me then he always seemed to be, so I said “well, you might want to come out to the car, don’t think you want it stinking up the kitchen, it mingles with pie, it might be lethal.” So, he popped up from the lazy boy and we stepped out.

By the time we got out to the New Yorker, this guy was babbling out of control, he kept telling me I needed to go to the cops or something, perhaps there had been a shooting. And the smell, he went on, was some kind of residual evil or some crazy nonsense. I just kept thinking of Irma in that yellow two piece, and nodding. So, I swung open the door, reached under the seat—nothing. The gun was totally gone.

The old man got beet red and mad like a hornet, made me look under both sides of the seat, just went off. He actually kicked my car. Dump jerk. Anyway, my guess is that Irma took it, snuck out while I was munching pie, and made it her own. Or maybe it flipped over to another dimension or something—it did have a very strange oder.

Durant “deep water” Hapke

PS—Image of gland hook below not rendered in Maya.

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Brothers, and Sisters,

Was wondering—while drinking a few cocktails, and of course lighting a fresh smoke—wondering if this forum—this low velocity pipeline of little activity—was the best place to commune with fellow artists and Maya users, or if there was a less down trodden batch of folks somewhere else out on the net I could hook with?

Letting me know would be grand.

Bring the hammer of insight and start swinging.

Ponder the Jack bird following:

My ex-girlfriend’s brother worked at KFC a few years back and was busting frozen chick up (I guess it sticks together when it’s in the freezer some times), and got jabbed with some rock hard breast bone—ouch. Hurt me with the birdy. Anyway, this kid was a blast, loved x-box (he’s the rock star that got me into Zelda—a must play. Did I mention that besides getting the grays loaded on booze, before you club them, you can turn them on to Zelda—then give them a bash. Of course you have to fool one or two of them with multiple controllers as, it’s a single player game, and they’re always in groups. But get one going with some Daku action, pass out the controllers, and they’ll just stand there like the dumb meat puppets they are. Then—BLAM! Say good night mister softy).

I digress, so this KFC dude, gets a puncture wound, and shows his boss who’s remedy is to send him home.

It happens some farm girls from the Catholic school across town are just hitting the drive through, and as Mr.FCW (Frozen Chicken Wound) was making his exit, and called him into their clutches for a bit of a joy ride. The posse heads out afternoon mischief (Samantha’s brother is a lady killer, he was like seventeen when this all wiggled out, but he had no trouble hitting on the local talent and bringing them to the prom).

Anyway he started sweating hand getting dizzy, and really barking out the solids. The Catholic girls where a freaking, as they where hooking from school and didn’t want to get in to a bad place with god, so didn’t know what to do with FCW.

To make a long story short, he got some kind of deal called Compila bacta or what he called Campylobacter bacteria. He lost a bunch of weight, and had to stay in the hospital can, and was kind of almost dying.

I want to avoid this type of deal when it comes to doing renders and using Maya… I want to slam dance with gusto. 

Durant “sad to be here” Hapke

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Brothers, and Sisters,
This Guy is cool

Brothers, and Sisters,

Bring that, and pour one.

I wanted to render the attached in Maya, but do to the lack of said “interactive information” available here—and an ongoing storm of crashes—I just busted out this in some other deal.

Getting into the idea of putting images on top of one another, and what that might mean.

The lack of complexity in the render of alien hardware is so very simple.

Yet to start slam dancing with UV action mapping, but want to.

What a funky bit of a world.

My photo collection is factoring in, and wow, I need to build an understanding of that action, or lack of.

Under the fog of tall boys, I was thinking the lack of sophistication was interesting… The lack of things looking “properly put together,” as it were.

Bad science fiction porn film look.

Perhaps to clever by half.

Took the issue of color out, and grained the imaged into shape, “get down and rub another one out.”

Time to hit the corner store.

Durant “fish in the water” Hapke

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