Hello folks, i’m a 3d animator in training at ianimate.net. i’m having a lot of troubles with a free rig i downloaded at creativecrash (https://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/roboter). I’ll keep it short as i have quite a lot of things to explain:
I animated my shot, and everything was ok. Now i have to shade/light/render my shot using vray, trying to create brand new vray materials; I started from my robot-character. Here comes the problems:
- I can’t select the polygon geometry(i asked the rigger, and he said the geometry were imported as references at rigging time, and it can’t be helped). There are no geometry layers in reference or template, then there must be somthing else causing me the problem. I can access to the object via hypershade, i can click on the shape node and i can see the geometry selected, but then, when i try to access faces, i can’t select them!in no way.
This means i can’t create selections for materials, and so i can’t shade as i liked. I tried to selecte faces using the select by materials feature in the hypershade (as the character has some pre created basic materials)but again, i’m not free to assign materials where i want, and i just can use the pre-existing face selections and work on those, but it’s not enough for me.
If someone could help me i’d really appreciate that!I’m even available to add credits for the help at the end of my demoreel for those who can help me to shade such character! Thank you so much in advance (if you wanna see my robot progress anim you can see it here http://vimeo.com/32385812 !)

i know you are a 3d artist but maybe your problem is in this image.
good luck

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