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black line around fur

Hi. I am rendering out a character with fur using mental ray. Using the same settings (as far as i can tell) i sometimes get a nice render out...

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by matmonkfish

06-03-2005|04:51 PM

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transparency issues

This is very odd. I've got a scene which has final gather and GI turned on, and uses a textured object (I refer to this as my "light dome") with...

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by Dann

02-03-2005|07:03 PM

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Mental Ray batch rendering

Hi, I find my Maya quits rendering prematurely when using the normal batch renderer with the program running, so i have started batch rendering by...

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by sasooo

02-03-2005|01:48 PM

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Reflection linking

I am rendering a 3d head and I want the eyes and lips, which have different shaders, to reflect different HDRI images. I am currently using a...

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by Alan

02-03-2005|09:27 AM

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render quality issues

hi, because im relatively new to maya, my questiom might sound stupid: i want to render my scenes (static/dinamic) but with all the quality options...

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by caligraphics

28-02-2005|11:02 AM

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Batch Render Problem

Hi there, Im a bit new to Maya , im trying to render a small animation I did, when I do the batch Render and go to the script editor, all it says...

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by hurricane456

26-02-2005|09:36 PM

Replies: 14

stop auto making a shader for Convert to File texture

Hi there all, I am not to sure where this question really belongs but considering I am doing light mapping I figure that it belongs in the...

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by junkyBob

25-02-2005|02:31 PM

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lines

Greetings, I have made this cup as part of a scene but when I render it shadow lines appear on the surface. The other components in the scene...

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by happymat27

22-02-2005|08:17 PM

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fur not rendering

Hello, I am currently rendering a character who has fur for hair. I am using mental ray and for a time the fur was rendering perfectly. Recently...

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by matmonkfish

20-02-2005|08:23 AM

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Mirror reflections are blurry

Mirro has been created but reflected objects appear blurry? Is there someway around this? Thanks

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by harrysc

19-02-2005|07:01 PM

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thanks

thank you very much swankymonkey :) bye!!!

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by musaro

12-02-2005|05:13 PM

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mental ray problems

hy, i have a problem with the mental ray because i dont know why this one its set off, someone know how to set on this render aplication? thank very...

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by swankymonkey

11-02-2005|03:14 AM

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trex textures

hi when does the trex texture dvd is gonna b on sales

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by samputhvcom

07-02-2005|12:48 PM

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Particle rendering | Page: 1 2

I have a seen in which I am using particles. I would very much like to batch render it but when I try nothing appears.- - I have a ...

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by alienscience

02-02-2005|02:12 AM

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maya 6 on the farm

Ever since we upgraded to Maya 6 (about a month ago) I have been seeing unprecedented levels of failed frames on our render farm. Error: An...

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by Dann

01-02-2005|06:21 PM

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creating Under Water dappled light effect???

Hi, I'm trying to think of a way to achieve a moving 'dappled' (think thats the right phrase) light effect. The kind of thing you see used when...

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by le_geo

28-01-2005|04:33 PM

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reflective pond?

Hi, I am making a film with a pond in it. I cannot work out how to make the pond reflective, is this possible? how would i do it?

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by matmonkfish

24-01-2005|09:27 AM

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QTVR

anyone know if theres a plugin for maya thatll let me export my scene as a QTVR object? or if there are any free inbetween programs to do this?

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by Nem

14-01-2005|09:10 PM

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Global Illumination being weird

Hi guys, I'm using global illumination for a scene and am getting some odd artifacts. It seems that some of the photons bouncing around are being...

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by dberry

13-01-2005|07:09 PM

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Dmap bias not being accurate(?)

Working on lighting some big things and have discovered some odd renders when my depth mapped spotlight goes too far away from the geometry. I've...

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by PacManiac

13-01-2005|02:56 PM

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Renderman

I know that with Maya, you have to render the particles in Maya Hardware, and Fg/GI in MR, but does a third party renderer like Renderman let you...

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by Alan

08-01-2005|12:15 PM

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Compositing Software

Im rendering a scene with 11 different layers and i need a compositing osftware for pc that works like Shake for macs... ive never used hsake but the...

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by AgentCapt

03-01-2005|11:30 AM

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Saving transparencies

Hi guys, long time no see I'm having a problem getting maya to save transparencies in a targa when rendering, i've never had this problem and as...

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by Alan

29-12-2004|12:31 PM