Forum: Technical and Hardware

Hi all Not sure if there has been a topic like this in the past but i felt like asking this question. Which do you prefer and why? Mouse or Tablet? I recently bought my self a Wacom Bamboo 3rd Gen and im loving it. but i want to know in the scene of Modelling which do you (the people out...

Hey ya'll, I've suddenly started having problems with my Space Navigator in Maya. Up and down, right and left rotation works just fine, but zooming in is extremely slow. In orthographic views, the space navigator doesn't even work at all...it used to, though. I have zoom in/out mapped to pushing...

Videos crashing... thought it was my machine at first, but after diagnostics and lack of repair required, and that it plays vimeo, youtube, zbrush workshops, and pixologic tuts, it looks like its on DT's side. Please help, already waited 48 hours since last post and message to tech support. I'm...

From PC Too This question gets asked a lot, I've asked it my self a few times. But in my opinion, Geforce vs Quadro, comes down to, how large or complex ur scene is. You can get away with a Geforce, as long as ya got a driver (and clean install driver), and smaller, less complex scenes. ...

Will Educational lic Maya, Mentalray (or other render'r) work with Tesla? KS

I am having issues with this site for some reason. Ever since I purchased membership I have been having one issue after another. Either I cannot log in, the video crashes, the site responds at a turtle pace, or some other issue. My latest issue is after I completed a tutorial it would not let...

I saw a video on here about adding notes while watching a course. When i put my mouse over the time line to tag a note to the time of the video, i dont get the option to save the time. I can only click on the notes icon under the video, which doesnt have the time. Can someone please help me?...

Recently I was working on the Introduction to Maya 2013 and encountered some anomalies regarding the grid. At some point I was unable to view the grid, regardless of proximity to 0,0. After sifting through a number of threads and articles all over the web, I arrived at a workaround that offered a...

hi im trying to build a pc to work with 3d max, modo, Zbrush etc. i was doing my research and always it is how much money do you want to invest in, choices are so big i just want to get an advice about this configuration that i made, thanks case Corsair Graphite Series 600T CC600TM...

Hi I'm about to shoot something on a camera which has a crop factor of 2.3. I've modelled everything in Maya and I plan to shoot with the camera on a greenscreen and comp everything in Nuke. My problem is that If I use a 35mm lens it will "look" technically like an 80mm lens right? but as my...

Bought the G13 for Mudbox. Anyone have a profile or tips on best programming the device?

im currently working a project and its the only project i have that causes maya to crash. its still at the building stage and is not even half done. i have other projects ready to animate that are a lot bigger and load up fine yet this relatively small project causes maya to crash. it started...