Maya tips 011 - Finding missing Texture

Maya will sometimes lost track of where to get the Textures, as reflected in the White Texture on the object when "Hardware Texturing" is turned on by pressing 6 on keyboard.

Before finding the Texture in Maya, make sure the all the PNG files are downloaded somewhere in the computer. In Animation Mentor case, go to AMP, the Character file, right click and "Get Dependencies".

Also download the newest version Textures by pressing "Get".

Follow these steps:

1. Go "Hypershade".

2. There will be missing picture in "Texture" tab. Left click on it.

3.  Open "Attribute Editor".

4. Click on the Folder icon.
5. Look for the Texture in the "Documents" folder.
6. The file should be the same as the one indicated here. Unless there is an updated version with a different name.
7. Click open and it is done!

If there is a Transparency issue go to http://truepassionforart.blogspot.sg/2016/01/maya-tips-010-solving-texture.html

Maya tips 010 - Solving Texture Transparency issue

Sometimes after loading the texture, the body seems transparent and the other arm or leg can be seen.

I am not sure why this happens. And there maybe other ways to solve this but this is the way someone shared and it works.

1. Go to "Hypersade".
2. Click "Materials" tab.
3. Left click on the material that is affected, in this case the character's body.
4. Notice the Transparency values are highlighted in yellow.

5. Hold right click on the same material file, release on "Graph Network".
6. Nodes and connections can be seen in the "Work Area".
7. Notice the connection arrow is yellow.

The yellow indicates there is some Transparency connection to the Material. There are 2 ways to remove this connection.

Method A:

8a. Highlight the 3 Transparency attribute. And right click on anyone of them.
9a. Left click on "Break Connections". Their values will not be highlighted yellow anymore.

Method B:

8b. Left click the yellow connection arrow. And press "Delete" button.
9b. Press Ctrl Z to undo and the connection arrow should come back. But it is now green.

Either way, the Transparency connection is broken and the issue is solved!