Hi Morten, There is a google group list similar to our own and very active for Maya
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maya_he3d Maybe that is what your are looking for. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]> wrote: > You guys are unearthing new levels of moronic on the part of the Maya devs. > > Thanks for the insight. I have renamed the first UV set to something else > than map1 (which I have always hated when receiving models from Maya) so > that might explain why the UV relationship editor is not behaving quite > like it says on the tin. > > Soldiering on. > > Morten > > > > > Den 26. maj 2017 klokken 12:57 skrev Anto Matkovic <[email protected]>: > > > > > > I think Relationship Editor is only way through UI. Action in > Relationship Editor creates UV Chooser node, which then allows to choose > something else than first member of array of UV Sets, so theoretically it's > possible to invoke this by some script, and un-hide the node in Hypergraph > (it's visible in Node Editor). But, once you're in node un-hiding business, > it easily shows what you do not want to see, in this case, perhaps all > objects having this texture assigment. So, imho only solution is what Ivan > suggested, to use some plugin, written by Maya guru.By the way it's full of > such crazy, partial workarounds over twenty year old framework. This seems > to be a tradition, even in newer versions. For example, new ''improved'' > Connect Tool (Subdivide Edges in SI) in Maya 2017, creates one operator for > each subdivision, or twice if symmetry modeling is used - first operator is > subdivide at 0.5, second is 0.5 of previous 0.5, or 0.5 of previous 0.66, > so on. Unbelievable in any oth > er 3d on planet, even for quick user solution posted on some forum, but > in ''official'' Maya, this is ''normal''.Funny enough, long time ago > exactly the same nodal framework had great reputation, comparable with our > opinions about Softimage ICE, while these 'duct tape' workarounds were > considered as temporary, not important stuff for smart Maya people. Today I > think for everyone, it is just a chore, an old fashion can-do > everything-but-poorly thing. > > From: Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]> > > To: "Userlist, Softimage" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:45 AM > > Subject: OTish and F****** Mayaish rant - or the multiple UV sets > conundrum > > > > I am late to the sad and boring party of learning Maya and have run into > what looks like total idiosyncracy in the way you manage and use multiple > UV sets in Maya. > > > > Trying to keep an open mind and keeping the learning hat on, I am > willing to accept there might be a good reason for the way Maya does it, > but having to Link each UV set to a given texture using the Relationship > Editor rather than just selecting the desired UV set in a texture > projection node like in Soft is beyond my imagination. It seems like > programmers harassment. > > > > Can someone here indicate a good reason for this, expanded > functionality, or perhaps a simpler workaround for using multiple UV sets > in shader networks in Maya? > > > > Thanks, and apologies for blowing off steam. > > > > > > Morten > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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