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Opening Maya projects from a newer version in older versions.

16th
Jan. × ’10
By Eric B
Often times I find that clients or co-workers are using older versions of Maya software which can create a headache at time of delivery.  Here’s a quick tip to “downgrade” the Maya scene file. For example:  I have a Maya 2009 project that needs to work in Maya 2008.  It uses nCloth which was available [...]
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3Dmation MoCon V3.5.5 – I love it

8th
Dec. × ’09
By Eric B
Stumbled upon a super helpful script for After Effects and Maya.  It’s called MoCon and you can find it here. If you are trying to bring locators from Maya into After Effects, or camera data this is a very important tool to have. I especially enjoy the fact that you can simply select any object [...]
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Saving .ma files

8th
Dec. × ’09
By Eric B
Have you ever tried to save a Maya scene as a .ma (maya ascii) file and received the following message? Error: File contains unknown nodes or data.  To preserve this information, the current file type cannot be changed. The tough part is figuring out what is an “unknown” node. To list the “unknown” nodes in [...]
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