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Hi, i would like some help with my protect. I'm trying to render a indoor scene using mental ray and final gathering. I'm using 3 lights in this...

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by Ignus Loki

04-09-2007|07:30 PM

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duplicating a camera

I need to create another camera in the same place as my perspective camera. Does anyone know how I might go about this. Cheers, Leon

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by Rank_zz

03-09-2007|11:17 PM

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How do you render displacement with occlusion pass?

Hi, I model this Alley which has all these cobble stones walls and I was wondering to show off a modeling reel, how do you render displacement map...

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by tvholicjames

31-08-2007|02:17 PM

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Holomatix Rendition

Rendition is in public beta, and its insanely fast from the looks of it. Basically it's a liveupdate raytracer bit like FPrime for Lightwave or think...

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by mirek03

14-08-2007|11:04 AM

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No Alpha Channel with MR Materials

Hi everyone. I tried rendering a simple scene with Mental Ray and a Mental Ray car paint shader applied. I saw nothing, until I added a light. But...

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by Calvin

01-08-2007|02:03 PM

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mental ray nails

Two nails rendered with mental ray and using the dgs shader without using a physical and sun sky light i'm using an ambient light with depth map...

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by zico_samagoria

30-07-2007|05:38 AM

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Tips for Rendering Large Scene w Mental Ray?

Hi All, Does anybody know a tips or suggestion for rendering large scene w MR? I tried to render a city scene but don't have a good luck yet .....

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by gster123

26-07-2007|10:11 PM

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Alpha Channel visible using Ray Tracing.

Hey, I'm new. I have a polygon plane with a image map shader on it. I saved the image uncompressed .tga with an alpha channel. I'm rendering...

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by ArtieLange

24-07-2007|05:24 PM

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Why is the color file not showing up in Hypershade?

Hi, Does anyone know how to solved this? The color portion of the main node in Mental ray is not showing. Attached is the file.

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by tvholicjames

24-07-2007|07:17 AM

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Problem w Physical Sun & Sky

Hi All, I have some large scene and it wont render with mental ray..there is only one light source which is from physical sun and sky. The error msg...

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by younglion

20-07-2007|06:24 PM

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Batch render problem.

Hello to you all. I am having a little problem with maya's batch rendering system. I have a pretty simple scene to render, it contains some...

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by Wiz

16-07-2007|03:08 PM

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Render out 32bit image

Hi All, does anybody know how to output a 32 bit image with Maya Software rendering engine? In Max i can just choose RLA / RPF and then there is a...

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by Andy William

15-07-2007|08:47 PM

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How to use the Mental Ray Twosided material?

Hi, Just wondering if anyone knows how to use the two_sided shader in mental ray? I know that you use the lambert first, then the lambertSG of...

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by tvholicjames

13-07-2007|10:46 PM

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Subsurface Scattering Thickness Problem

Ok, here is the picture with the default settings after i put on all the correct nodes and lights. As you can see in the wireframe, this tart...

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by tvholicjames

10-07-2007|06:54 AM

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no batch render

Had anyone this problem. MR wil nor batch render. A single frame OK, but multiples seem to be a problem. :headbang: Chris

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by dae

08-07-2007|10:02 AM

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Mental Ray problem with Area Lights

Hi, My problem started when I switched from 4 spot lights to 2 Area Lights and I get this jagged shadows or unfinished renders. I thought Area...

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by younglion

06-07-2007|09:00 AM

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Global Illumination & Ambient Occlusion

I know this might seem lazy or lame but does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to produce GI renders using HDRI and any on how to setup Ambient...

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by gazzamataz

01-07-2007|10:54 PM

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Premiere can't see my .tiff's

Hi guys I know this isn't really a rendering question but it's still a major obstacle to my new showreel. I have rendered out some .tiff's ...

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by mirek03

30-06-2007|06:45 AM

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Various Render Setting in One Scene

Hi all, i want to set up different render setting for my render layers but seems like everytime i change the render setting in one layer (by...

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by Andy William

29-06-2007|11:50 AM

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Batch Rendering

Hey Guys My turn for a question. I'm looking to batch render several scenes one after the other while away from the PC, does anyone know of a...

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by Jay

24-06-2007|06:15 AM

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mentalray errors

dear members, whenever i use point light in mental ray,i get a lot of error reports. in script editor i read '8 setellite cpus found" no photon is...

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by oldhippie_tom

20-06-2007|06:25 AM

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mental ray and V ray which 1 more powerful

mental ray and V ray which 1 more powerful??

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by publicFunction

13-06-2007|02:51 AM

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Shadow edges

I know this is prob. elementary to most people, but my shadow edges are noisy, not soft. Where is this controlled? Render settings? Light settings?...

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by wasatch5_sparticus

11-06-2007|04:24 PM

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lighting a house

I have the first floor of my house modeled out for a camera animation. Before I add any more furniture to my scene I would like to know how you get...

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