Hello everyone! I’d like to share my first tool - rmGimbalMonitor.

It monitors how close character controls are to gimbal lock in real time and shows the result directly in a table with color-coded progress bars.

At the moment, it includes Biped and Quadruped presets, but the setup is fully customizable. You can edit control categories, change which controls are monitored, add skip rules, and assign custom category icons.

The tool is completely free and available on GitHub. The repository also includes installation instructions, compatibility information, known issues, and the development roadmap.

I have been trying to figure this out for hours. I have searched the internet, YouTube, and even sadly resorted to AI to attempt to tell me what's wrong in making this wheel work, but I just can't get it. I have tried using the Expression Editor and a few other things. I want the wheel to move automatically instead of having to painstakingly animate it myself when it comes time. A lot of people are saying to have the meshes and NURBS parented together, but with the tutorial I followed to make this control rig, it hasn't been possible thus far. I have provided images of my outliner and an image of the wheel/rig to give better context. The green wheel on the outside is my global controller that I want to move and have the wheel rotate with. The yellow Wheel_Base, blue is Wheel_Frame (Rim/arm), and red is the wheels themselves (CTRL_Wheel). I am still fairly new to Maya, and this is my first time rigging anything, so please go easy on me in the comments.

Any feedback is appreciated I've also got a syncsketch link https://syncsketch.com/sketch/f2K1F4AS34u9/ Thanks!

I have tried resetting my preferences, but it did not resolve the issue.

Multi cut is registering faces that aren't there and wont let me edit the faces that are actually there. Anyone know whats happening? I'm pretty new to maya.

This project is also nearing completion. What do you think of a tool like this?

I had to switch to Maya 2025 from 2023 and now when I'm trying to use the substance painter plugin, it won't show up. Downloading and installing doesn't seem to work either because of a possible version mismatch. The main download link is supposedly for Maya 2025 while the download file mentions the 2027 version. I scrolled down for older versions but it provides the download links for versions upto 2024. What do I do?

3D Game Animation Attack made in Maya

I'm new to Maya. How can I get this roof to be closed? I need it to have the outer face on both the inner and outer, like it is on the rest of the mesh, but I haven't been able to figure it out. Tried Fill Hole and Bridge, but they won't work cause it isn't a border.

Any Help would be appreciated :)

Hi! I just finished this jump and slide exercise. How do the weight and momentum feel? Is there anything I could improve? Any feedback is welcome!

I also uploaded it to SyncSketch: https://syncsketch.com/sketch/u8durqHPqEzs/

I was working on a retopology file some days ago. But when I open the file, it just keeps loading and loading while freezing maya. I suppose the file is corrupted since any other file opens without any issue.

Is there any way I can take the .ma data of a mesh and use that to make it into a .obj file? I'm using maya 2026.

Hello friends! So Iately I've had to select many vertecies and stuff like that for Maya and modeling to do twerking, and I know that the lasso select tool would be a huge help but also I HATE that it also grabs the other side of whatever I'm looking at, I've searched though the tool settings and idk if I'm blind or stupid but I'd like to only select the vertices that are seen on my camera, and not select the things on the other side of my model

So I have a image of sports glasses, how do I model precisely with proper dimensions in maya. Should I use curves if yes I dont know how to model with curves.

https://reddit.com/link/1x5vsug/video/mlf7cv7jlgvh1/player

I used the same settings in attributes for both, except the starting frame. Why does it work on the second one but not the first one? (I'm trying to make the egg white kind of explode on the table and bowl)

I am currently developing MayaMetaBridge, adding numerous features not found in the standard MetaHuman plugin. The Blender version is already complete, and I am now porting all those features to Maya. This enables a live workflow across the entire toolset: Unreal Engine, Maya, Cascadeur, and Marvelous Designer. Character HumanIK, mGear auto-rig generation, etc.
What do you think about this plugin?

Disclaimer : sorry if there is any fault, English isn’t my first language.

Hi everyone, I have an assignment in my 3D Lighting class (on Maya of course) which consists of lighting and staging a scene with the teapot in the picture.
I tried something, but I’m not entirely satisfied with it. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong about it but there is definitely some things that could be improved.
I’m debating if I should maybe use the layers system (which I don’t know much about) to remove some of the lights effect on the floor.
Aside from that, I don’t really know what to do to really bring the scene together and create a coherent atmosphere.

This is why I need your help to figure out what’s working or not in this and what needs to change.
I’m still a beginner so please don’t be too harsh on me if I did something wrong.
I’m just looking for advice to improve myself and this scene.

Thank you in advance to anyone who will help, have a nice day !

Has anyone else noticed a weird issue where the white title bar on some of the editor windows looks almost yellowed like this?
This has been driving me nuts for ages as every time I see I think it is burn in on my monitor as it is localised to the left side of my screen but no it is something exclusive to Maya.
I have tested with whites, other colours and other monitors as well as this being a screenshot meaning that it is entirely a Maya thing and only when that editor is selected.
What makes it super weird is that when I shift the editors around the yellowing stays stationary to the left!

I am so confused by what is even causing this!?

So, I wanted to work on an assignment today—the teacher had provided a file with the model—but when I tried to open it, the program froze and the following message appeared. Now it won't let me into Maya; it kicks me out and I can't do anything.I apologize if my English is poor.Do you know any way to solve this problem?

i just wanted to try the free trial for myself and it still asked me what my job and role was. my job is barista but i didnt see that on the list /j

what was the point of the 'home use' option if it didnt matter?

As the Title, I created and I am actively looking for testers for my renderer its GPU based primarily and along with it I created an FX plugin like Phoenix, mixed with some tyflow, previously I have also released a plugin for maya which is a multi-tool autorigger on my github
www.github.com/coco8897 here

if you are interested in testing the renderer, I have 10 licenses left for testers, first come and first serve

I've been modeling this model for a couple of weeks, I'm stuck in a constant loop of tweaking, and can't seem to move forward. Any help/feedback/critique would be a great help

I made my first $100 on itch thanks to Maya, and to my dad for supporting my dreams!

I've created four asset packs using Maya, and none of this would have been possible without my dad's support and Maya.

I fell in love with Maya after trying it for just a month and now, thanks to my asset sales and commissions, I'll be able to pay for my own Indie license and continue learning :D

A huge thank you to everyone who bought my packs and of course to the community!

Here are some scripts I made that might be helpful for some people too:

Grid Fill: https://gist.github.com/martinolidev/b3f15b5774fd959ec417eba6b8f7cfd1

Reset / Toggle grid size: https://gist.github.com/martinolidev/5a49c0d7f683fb0e93af92558aa67dc4

I want to make my character hit an egg too hard on the bowl and make it shatter. How do I do this?

I want the egg to break into pieces (I already used the shatter effect) and the slimy parts inside to spill when that happens.

As for the powder question, I want a character to shake a pot and sugar comes out only when they shake it, is there a way to do that in animation?

So, I recently downloaded a mesh but I am unable to import it into Maya. When I gave it to my friend, he is able to import it into Maya but when I ask him to give me the file. It said that the file does not exist. Why does this happen? I've even redownloaded Maya multiple times, all times I couldn't import it. It works with other fbx files that I already have. Can someone help?

Please let me know if there are areas where I can improve. Thanks!

We make tools for Maya, and we'd like the next ones to be tools people actually need, so we're asking.

What tool do you keep wishing you had? Not only the one-click kind: it can be a whole tool for a job Maya leaves you to work around.

An example of what we mean: a mirror. A character looking into a mirror comes up in shots more often than you'd think, and we needed to see the reflection while animating more than once, with no good way to do it. So we built one: a plane that shows the reflection, cached or live in the viewport as you pose. It's still in testing.

Rigging, animation, modeling, lookdev, pipeline, anything. Tell us what the job is and where it gets in the way. We'll read every reply, and if something here turns into a tool, we'll come back to this thread and say so.

(For transparency: we're Two Dollar Tools, and we sell Maya tools at $2 each.)

P.S. This week's first walkthrough is for Anim GIFs, which records the timeline through a camera straight to a GIF sized for Slack or Discord. Two minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEwiKz5pCHg