One day I decided to re-create one of my favorite art projects in Maya. The image is of a radio-active dinosaur:
The original is color-aid paper on matte-board. The assignment was vibrating color (yes, it's fully intended to seer your retinas, and the digital scan doesn't do it justice.)
So I went into Maya, modeled a 3D version (only took two tries! I'm improving!), created and exported the UV map and did some preliminary coloring and lighting just to start getting the feel of how to re-compose the picture for 3D space.
I hit the render button...
...and I hit a brick wall titled "//Error: setParent: object 'renderView' not found."
Apparently it's a bug in the latest Maya. A horribly frustrating bug. Luckily a short google search yielded great results. Found the fix here.
Hooray for the internet.
Earworm of the day: Animaniac's Ballad of Magellan Staying historically (semi)accurate through off-screen violence!
Yeah, that was a weird one. Most frustrating thing in it that if there would be no such solution - users would be unable to solve it easily, they'll had to delete their user prefrences from My Documents folder. I believe that many users would go far enough to even re-install Maya itself and even Windows with it.
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