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Image plane and sloooooonesss

Hi. I just decided to start modeling a car and have my image planes imported onto each of the Orthographic cameras. When I switch to one of the...

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by sjurick

20-08-2004|08:49 PM

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MentalRay doesnt render SubD surfaces

hi there .. i am facing some kind of strange problem .. when i create a normal subD surface .. the MR (Mental Ray) render it normally but .. when...

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by Mr_Flamenco

14-08-2004|07:31 AM

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Matrix Pill | Page: 1 2

does anyone know where i could get a tutorial for creating those pills from the matrix? i can model them easy enough but the lighting and shading is...

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by sjurick

11-08-2004|05:26 PM

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can you undo camera zoom?

can you undo a camera zoom/pan etc? I accidently hit the f key when in my camera view and of course this caused the camera to fit all into the...

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by juice690

04-08-2004|12:40 PM

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Phanoramic view?

hi all, i heard that in 3dmax exists the FOV option, or phanoramic, or somehitng like that.. does it exists in maya? where do i set it ?

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by Sav1989

04-08-2004|01:27 AM

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Maya 6.0 crash

This is really driving me crazy. At last I got Maya 6.0, and Mental Ray, but everytime I try to render with Mental Ray the whole *@$!- thing crash....

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by f50

01-08-2004|11:11 PM

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Animating Spotlight's intensity

Is there a way to animate a spotlight's intensity when you use intensity curves? Since the graph editor shows a light's intensity over distance, how...

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by dashajak

30-07-2004|08:24 PM

Replies: 6

HDRI in Maya 6.0

Can anyone tell me what the function of the "Image Based Lighting" section of Mental Ray? I have been experimenting with HDRI using HDR images as...

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by roach105

30-07-2004|12:56 PM

Replies: 8

are there any noob tutorials for mental ray?

found a few links, but anyone know of more? thanks,

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by sjurick

27-07-2004|03:59 PM

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Background color HOW!!??

Ok Dk.. been trying to figure out how in hell I change the background color of software renders to something other than black.. For the life of me I...

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by Alan

26-07-2004|08:57 AM

Replies: 5

Rendering a volumetric area ?

Is it possible to rerder an area which is contained/enclosed within a cube. Example: I have a building with 5 stories and need to render stages...

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by Dann

23-07-2004|03:27 PM

Replies: 8

Help with Spotlight

I need some help creating a spotlight to act like a search light. I have a spotlight parented to an aircraft which is moving along a motion path but...

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by mrmacca

20-07-2004|10:24 PM

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rendering images for print / shadow on white surface

im wondering how can i render an image in maya with a transparent background that will show up in photoshop. also how can i add a shadow on a...

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by Dann

19-07-2004|07:01 PM

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Rendering problem in MR, surface

I have 2 layered shaders used to texture my tank. They are all lamberts pluged into the layered shaders. The light is IBL with the RNL.hdri probe. In...

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by jhaydock

13-07-2004|02:55 PM

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how are "spooky" scenes set?

Yes, Basically I want to make a " Spooky" ISH scene, and the only thing I know about lights - Is to use a blue colour. I wil show you what i have...

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by Nem

08-07-2004|01:22 AM

Replies: 11

simulating moonlight

Hi, I'm trying to simulate a night scene where "the moon rises and sets". There are moonlight rays(lightfog) coming through a window in a room. ...

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by Scraggy_dog

21-06-2004|12:17 AM

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slow play back

i`ve just batch rendered a small 13 sec animation. i had the gobal setting quite high, and it took a few hours to complete. the trouble is , now...

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by microchippy

19-06-2004|10:41 PM

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Sun Rays into a room

Hi How can I force a light fog to appear only through a window and not as if it passes through a wall. In ****** , Alex creates the effect...

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by nirsul

15-06-2004|08:32 PM

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compression????

hey, i'm building my website and i have a couple of movies which i would want to display at the click of a button. When the user clicks onto the...

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by strytus

13-06-2004|01:38 AM

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Mental ray crashes

why Mental ray crashes when rendering a heavy scene. I had a file in which I duplicated a detailed cartoony building 20 times and trying to render...

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by roach105

08-06-2004|03:26 PM

Replies: 1

about a light into a close box

I create a point light,and put it into a close box. but why the light can get through the box? I use the default setting. how should I set the...

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by Alan

07-06-2004|08:33 AM

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nurbs not tessellating in MR

Hi - this picture should indicate the problem pretty well. It's basically as if I'm getting base tessellation on my nurbs surface. This surface...

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by ereitz

06-06-2004|07:41 PM

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mental ray material: mib_volume

I've dug around in the online mr manual that comes with maya 5 and can't for the life of me figure out what the following settings for the mr...

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by Tocpe

03-06-2004|08:43 PM

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material problems

ok this is a weird problem....i have a nurbs surface, with a blinn shader and a bump map on it...then i have a semi-transparent blinn surface ontop...

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