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Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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FG vs GI VS Caustics

Okay, tell me something. I want great renderings in a fairly quick amount of time. I'm patient but I do have my limits. I've been experimenting...

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by DrRobotnik

28-03-2004|12:13 AM

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Alpha Shadows

I have a plane in a scene textured with a texture containing an alpha channel (its basically an object on the middle of the plane, with a fully...

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by JimmyC

25-03-2004|10:39 PM

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Defining min and max radius

How can I define the best minimal and maximal radius for final gathering at the render settings?

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by Alan

24-03-2004|11:55 AM

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Tutorial on Mental Ray?

Hiyas! Does anyone know a good tutorial on Mental Ray? It seems to be a quite complex topic. Anybody want to do a Video Tutorial on that?

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by surfchild

23-03-2004|02:53 PM

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Lighting only selected objects

Does anyone know if there is a way to get a light to only illuminate some selected objects in scene and not effect others around it?

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by BeerGoggles

21-03-2004|09:29 PM

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mental ray and subdivision surfaces

Hi folks i'm an italian industrial designer and i'm moving to the power of mental ray in maya 5. I'm personally modelling new objects facing to...

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by rocktogon

21-03-2004|10:03 AM

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Can you help me out?

Hey, I just posted in the rendering forum about needing help rendering out some revolution turns of my vehicle models for my demo reel. Would you be...

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by Alan

19-03-2004|11:57 AM

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Mental ray not loading

Sometimes when I start up Maya. mental ray and maya vector aren't available in the render globals. It seemed to startd happening after I installed...

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by WideBoy

17-03-2004|10:10 AM

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rendering shadows problem

Hi, The problem that i have is when i render frames of my character i get jagged edges along the shadow lines (see attachment). I have rendered...

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by Alan

16-03-2004|09:47 AM

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compositing

Ineed a help for video compositing

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by ragecgi

13-03-2004|01:36 AM

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MR vs Fake GI - Show Of Hands

Hey! I need a show of hands here... how many of you all here are using a simulated radiosity set up and who's using Mental Ray? Also, has any one...

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by Alan

12-03-2004|04:59 PM

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Freezing Transformations of lights

i'm having trouble. i'm trying to move a light set across the X axis to be symetrical with the first. i'm duplicating the first set then try to...

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by kbrown

12-03-2004|07:08 AM

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sampler info node

Hi, I was just looking at shaders and messing around with them and I noticed that almost EVERY shading network has a sampler node's facing ratio...

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by Alan

10-03-2004|01:13 PM

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How do you have the camera follow an object?

Hey peeps...does anyone know how to link a camera to an object in motion so that the camera stays still while it follows the object across the...

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by Spyd03

09-03-2004|05:52 PM

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Shadows on transparent objects?

I have a transparent floor in a scene I've made, but I still want shadows to appear on the surface as normal. Is there any way I can do this?

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by JimmyC

03-03-2004|09:29 PM

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New scene

Hi all, Have finally finished my current uni project and have decided to spend a little time learning mentalray, theres still some tweaking to be...

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by deepakrock627

02-03-2004|06:56 AM

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shadow problems

Hi, I have lit this scene with an ambient light of intensity 0.2 and a directional light of intensity 0.8. shadows are being cast only by the...

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by nspiratn

26-02-2004|11:45 PM

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renderman

which version of rderman suits with maya 5.0.1 Pixar Releases RenderMan® Pro Server 11.5 ?? what is the difference with pixar...

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by genius995

26-02-2004|03:05 PM

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Softening ray traced shadows

Has anyone got any tips for softening the edges of ray traced shadows?

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by Soviut

26-02-2004|05:12 AM

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How to render self-shadows as a pass?

I'm just wondering if it's possible to render self-shadows (shadows cast by an object onto itself) as a pass. It seems the only shadow pass that can...

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by Soviut

26-02-2004|05:04 AM

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Problems: Rendering my headlight

Hello, Question 1: I am trying to follow the tutorial on headlight rendering at...

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by Soviut

26-02-2004|04:53 AM