custom splash screen for maya

[beaker]

>>suggestion 1: that should be good to see thumbnail files for ma or mb. or any plugin ?
Yea, this was in Poweranimator and Studio over 8 years ago, no idea why we don't have it now.

>>suggestion 2: the swatch(es) files like a thumbnail cant be in embeded in ma or mb file which re owns?
You can't do it with a ma file because its just text, but I guess they might be able to with .mb, but why would you want to. File sizes would bloat really fast.

>>suggestion 3: undo option initially should be set to infinite.
bad idea. Infinate undo causes lots of memory problems and ram usage is allready high enough(inifite will send it through the roof). Having it on finate at 100 operations is much better than infinate.

>>suggestion 4: that was be good to see,operations history stored in the ma or mb file as construction history. so after close computer we gotto forgot old returns to refine our work.
Just leave the history button on.

suggestion 5: mental ray can be a standart renderer.

The maya renderer will never dissapear. MR still only supports half maya's features and it costs money for network renderer. Maya renderer is free for unlimited lics.

[butCherHeLL]

I didnt mean constructio history storing.
I already know this. :}

I meant OPERATION history.
u know redo<->undo

I mean I wantto redo undo operations after I reopen scene

so construction history and "operations" history are different things.

thanks for other replies:beer:

[onlooker]

In case anyone want's to know the Path for MayaStartupImage on OS X is

Root(volume)/Applications/Maya 4.5/Application Support/Icons/MayaStartupImage.xpm

Thank's for the splash butCherHeLL.

I tried it, and I thought the side with Stahlberg's Stool Girl was pixelated, or kind of spotty. I could see little white dot's escaping through the background of the scene.

Nevertheless. Thanks.
:wavey:

[CSquared]

Speaking of mayares.dll... I recently bought (from the internet, so I can't go back to the shop and speak to a human) Maya 5 Unlimited. Now the bastarding thing is saying my mayares is corrupt. I have attempted to contact the company itself, and was rebuffed by the impenetrable automated call centre. I tried seeing if there was anywhere I could download the file, and found two websites. Both will make me pay. I felt that more money on top of the thousands I've already spent was a bit of a cheek - does anyone know anywhere I can get it for free, or have they the charity in their heart to send me a copy of their own?

Hoping, but not necessarily expecting, to hear from someone soonish.:)

[_vine_]

My biggest problems with Maya is that with each new release the change some of the hotkeys (CTRL-W used to be the hotkey for the Lasso tool in 4.5, in 5.0 it wasn't set to anything, and now in Maya 6 it's set to the Soft Mod Tool). I would think Maya could keep something like this fairly consistent instead of causing a million headaches for users that rely on hotkeys.

Also, the Component editor runs very poorly in Maya 6 compared to Maya 5 and below. In Maya 6, a character with more than 5,000 vertices takes a long time to turn on "Hide Zero Columns", in Maya 5 it was almost instantaneous. Also, the Hide Zero Columns doesn't actually remove the columns from the Component Editor window, it just collapses their width to zero. If you take a mesh with Hide Zero Columns turn on you can grab the column edges and reveal the collapsed columns one by one. I believe this causes some of the speed issues because each of those column UI elements still exists and will still update along with all of the non-zero columns.

Hopefully Alias develops some consistency in their approach to fixing and adding to the broken features and leaving alone the features that work perfectly.

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