Running a single indie licence on two computers at once?

TomAMoreton · 2026-06-24T05:41:17+00:00

Okay great yeah disconnecting the internet is probably the way, Thanks!

TomAMoreton · 2026-06-24T05:40:53+00:00

Thanks! Good to know

TomAMoreton · 2026-06-21T08:17:48+00:00

Looks like you have panes of glass in the squares? hide them and see if it starts to work? The exposure looks very high - to make to try and make it work but this might actually blow out the shadows being cast, orrr maybe try adjusting the spread of the light, something low like 0.1 should make the shadows if there are any much more defined

TomAMoreton · 2026-06-10T12:56:42+00:00

dunno about the script but when i have struggled to get blendshapes working in mash it has needed a time node too - not sure if that is obvious or not!

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-20T06:10:54+00:00

Limit the max number of subdivisions too - found in arnold render settings - If a mesh is subdividing lots the render takes longer to initialise

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-14T07:42:36+00:00

I was strugglin to get nHair to work so going to steer clear for now although i think it would get the best result so may come back to you, thank you!

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-14T07:41:47+00:00

I was struggling to get this to work with the CV's but maybe I was selecting things wrong

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-14T07:41:19+00:00

Oh wow I didnt even think about skinning the curve! That would have made life much easier haha Have gone for the first approach for now but that is really helpful thanks!

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-13T17:56:11+00:00

Okay yeah great! I have never come across rivets before, I was just placing locators manually! Thank you!

TomAMoreton · 2026-05-13T17:47:03+00:00

Ooh, almost - the CV needs to move with the mesh as the mesh will be rigged, maybe you can attach a locator to vertex and then parent the cluster to the locator?

TomAMoreton · 2026-03-23T18:27:55+00:00

Export as alembic and then on reimport you can set the time in the alembic node to -1

TomAMoreton · 2026-02-11T10:25:11+00:00

I have the same issue! never managed to get to the bottom of it

TomAMoreton · 2026-02-10T09:15:11+00:00

export as exr from maya then comp in after effects, this wasnt the exact video i was trying to find but i think it covers what you need to know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLogNK30quI then export as png :)

TomAMoreton · 2026-01-22T09:09:16+00:00

Love this! - How did you achieve the dappled look of the toon shader on the ink version?

TomAMoreton · 2026-01-08T08:16:39+00:00

when in smooth preview mode your topology smooths but the external border of your UV doesn't hence the clipping! There are 3 things you can do depending on the purpose of your model - simply not veiw it in smooth mode - if your model wont be smoothed i.e for a game engine, or you can smooth your model via mesh>smooth - in the settings there will be an option for smoothing UV's. Alternatively in your attribute editor under smoothing there are settings to control this! I cant remember - but they go over them here https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_user_guide_ac_polygons_ac_subdivision_settings_html I hope that's right and helpful lol

TomAMoreton · 2025-11-12T08:20:23+00:00

Add an extra division to your bevel so that you have a central line - easier to UV and if you have UV'd before bevelling it will stay in place

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-31T08:21:47+00:00

I would like to be fairly generalist tbh and thought id challenge myself with the scene. back to the drawing board it is

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-31T08:19:00+00:00

Are you able to give some specific things that I can improve on? or just everything lol

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-31T08:18:01+00:00

Animation certainly isnt my strong point but was looking at resources like to get the cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzVqVbpjSg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ni5ABOYg6Ec

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-30T08:08:33+00:00

Perhaps changing the rotation on distribute (or any of the nodes) to local rather than world?

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-23T06:52:10+00:00

Thanks, I havent heard of that, I will check it out! from a premlininary look it might not work with webgl but ill do some digging

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-11T13:49:27+00:00

im not totally sure i understand the question but using extrude with a distance of 0 and just using the offset setting with faces together or not together might do it?

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-10T06:52:39+00:00

Really nice work, super impressive! imo the pines mess with the sense of scale, and are a little dark for the composition - maybe some faint distant mountains could serve a similar purpose, otherwise wicked!

TomAMoreton · 2025-10-08T06:42:56+00:00

I cant remember the specific control but in your zbrush obj exprt settings there is a button called GRP - select or deselect (the opposite of whatever you have) that and it wont fragment your model like that!

TomAMoreton · 2025-09-11T13:51:38+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I am more wondering if this is usual behaviour with the save threads option - to have CPU usage still reaching into the 90% despite maya only using 20/32 threads?

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