fixing 2016 MA file for Maya 2013

I had a problem with getting Maya 2016 scene to 2013. Because it was Maya Ascii, I just commented out all occurences of "rename -uid " as "//rename -uid " and import worked :)

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Sorting Maya 2016 open GL artifacts

I had a strange artifacts when working in the Maya 2016 open GL model window. Also the Isolate mode didn`t work properly and I couldn`t see the joints there.
I found that it was caused by having Viewport 2.0 as new default settings in Maya 2016. If you are technical artist, then watch out for this one. I switched to Legacy Default Viewport and everything was fine.

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Maya UUID

Recently found that Maya has nice mechanism with UUID attribute on each node in the scene. I don`t know when did they add it but it`s pretty cool! Check this command which finds a lambert shader node based on its unique ID:


import maya.cmds as mc

objUUID = 'E3FABA33-4254-E1F8-6AEF-2FA0A90EBAF7'
mc.ls(objUUID)[0] 

Rigging Demos

Nice collection of rigging demoreels:
https://vimeo.com/groups/masterofrigging/page:1/sort:date

Worth checking out if you are looking for some inspiration.

How to reduce noice from voice recording

I found these 2 videos on youtube which helped to reduce noise from voice recording on PC.

I was also deciding if buying USB sound card would help, and the second video confirmed it.