script created by Jim Berndt [email protected]
DOWNLOAD THE MELSCRIPT HERE
http://www.warproductions.com/tools.htm
all thanks, job offers 
and or praises should be sent to the programmer at: [email protected]
any thanks to his worthless friend who bugged him for 2 months to write it should be sent to me at [email protected]
very cool Elfufu. 
I donāt have maya myself but I think you and your buddy are going to make alot of lives a bit easier with this little gem. (hehe I hope you are ready for all the emails!!
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Good luck with this!! 
This is great. I will try this out tonight and give you feedback. Many thanksā¦
This is amazing man. Thank you very much.
Please note Jimmy just updated the script to automatically turn OFF featured displacement. this is important so if you downloaded this before tuesday morning re-download it.
This looks like an excellent utility!
Any Maya users want to give it a try with one of the test models from this thread and post the results here? 
I cannot wait to test in productionā¦
Okay, the script seems to run just fine until it has to create the approximations, then gives me an error that it can not find the proc āmiApproxEditorCreateā, any idea what I have to do to get it to work the rest of the way?
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
ya i think theres some kind of error on maya 6.0 jimmy wrote this on 5 so were gonna look into it and update this ASAP since we have alot of people interested.
If you really want to help us out try it out on 5 just to see if it works, if it does then we know its a 6 problem if not then we know its something else. Here it works perfectly on 5
NOTE WORKS NOW FOR 6.0 please download the appropriate plugin
Does someone know the displacement setting in XSI-Softimage :qu: :qu:
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just to let you know, i had that same problem āmiapproxeditorcreateā on maya 6 but not maya 5, this isnt the first time iāve seen that while using 6, so i think its something with the program itself.
I tried various times to make a good displacemet, but findings are not so positiveā¦ I look for a ādiplacemet settingā for XSIā¦Iā m not an expert, Iām learnig to use ā3D Worldā ! Itās only 9 mouth that I landed to this world, but I want to learn, and hurriedly !!!
Iāll study for a good settingā¦
good ZBrushing
Remember that this plugin is not gonna give you the perfect settings in terms of your displacement value, you need to adjust that via the alpha gain . all this does is simplify the repetitive process while giving you presets. the alpha gain setting vary from model to model so having prests on that would be close to impossible
I might be stupid but I sourced it, execute it, place it in a shelf and nothing happendes in maya5??!!
Had that happen as well in 6. Try running from the command line zatt; <return/enter>.
HEY all Jimmy just updated the script to work for both Maya 5 and Maya 6. try it out and report the bugs here. cheers
Hey, thanks for this tool; itās helped a lot.
Heres what i did:
Made it a RGB tiff in photoshop.
Import obj into Maya.
run script.
Change Repeat UV the V to -1.00 under the 2d placement node of the file. Or flip it in photoshop.
Change renderer to mental ray
Render!
PS: I forgot to change the alpha, but it came out okay.
Oh yea, Maya 6 script.
I feel like a total nubi , I ran the script on both maya 5.01 and maya 6.0 and nothing happend
I made sure i have obect slected before i run it but still nothing ā¦
I can see the script in the script editor going through but i dont get anything after that
any ideas
PS i got the latest MEL
thanks
put the script in your C:ā¦maya\6.0\scripts directory and in Maya type ` to get to the command prompt, then just type in the name of the script. āzatt6ā for example.
that worked great
thanks