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Booleans is the only way that will do this automatically but successful boolean operation is dependent on a lot of factors including the complexity of the object. Cut Faces tool will cut reliably the most complex objects but it will not fill automatically the hole. You have to apply Fill Hole command or use other tools like Append to Poly or Bridge. And the task of filling the hole depends on the complexity of the hole. If it is a concave...

Jesus. I just spent a half hour trying to get maya installed in Fedora 10 in a VM. What a nightmare - one problem after another. gcc and tcsh needs to be installed. check. then there's the four sets of missing libx files. check. then openmotif. check. then wtf. I can't get the installer to work. I'd like to just tinker with this but it just doesn't work. Is there a distro that just works with Maya 2010?

I thought I saw something using the camera's clipping planes to achieve this as well. I can't remember where I saw it but I will look for it and post it if I come across it.

Use a point light. The glow appears to be done in post (or all in 2D, in your example). You can also add glow in Maya, but it's tricky and not helpful in most situations.

I was looking at the same thing the other day. I wanted to export some geometry in Max with MR architectural shader, to the mia_material in Maya. I thought that because the shader parameters are identical (not entirely sure but I believe so) there must be a way. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=830684 I didn't have time to look at the tools proposed, or least I couldn't understand how I can use this tool to...

You could consider using Joe Alter's 'Shave and a Haircut' as that supports hair instancing. You'd model your wheat stalk how you want and have 'Shave' replace it's fur strands with instances of said stalk.

How the texturing of inner part is done in other softwares? What's the Technique behind texturing the inner part.

Those poly borders look fat. As in compared to the other geometry you have in that screenshot (below your inverted object). That would suggest to me that you've some weird stuff going on there in your mesh (or have really bad UVs with 'show texture borders' on.)

Alright, so here I am in the middle of modeling. I use the insert edge loop tool and when I press enter on my keyboard (like I always do), the normals on a section of my model seem to flip. Note, I said seem to. This only shows up in the viewport. The normals appear perfectly fine when I do a test render. I've tried to reverse the normals and tried selecting one face who's normal was fine and selecting 'conform'. Nothing...

yep, i have sent Paul an email. Maybe he can write an update for Maya 2008. That would be great. cheers NAIK