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The Skinny On Three Point Lighting

Well, as a few of you have seen, I've been posting like crazy to this list. I'm dying to soak up all the knowledge I can in this world we call Maya....

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by schmick

02-06-2003|12:31 AM

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From the command shell use the flags -tw and -th. The valid value range is between 16

From the command shell use the flags -tw and -th. The valid value range is between 16 and 256 ?? Is that a good way to divide my image by 4/8? Need...

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by filou

01-06-2003|08:22 PM

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about MR books

Driemeyer, T. Rendering with mental ray® Second, revised edition.2001 Can anyone told me if it,s a good book to begin and go further with MR

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by filou

01-06-2003|03:31 PM

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MR and animation

Hi everyone, Sorry I have not been around for a while but my Internet conn has been down. Ok.The issue now is how to use MR in a animation. ...

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by aderium

31-05-2003|03:01 PM

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GI Joe or RealFakeGI: Decisions, Decisions

I've written about GI Joe here quite a bit and currently I AM using GI Joe in my movie. BUT... ;) (isn't there always a big but in there...

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by Russell

30-05-2003|05:31 AM

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renering with maya4 problems

i,ve problems to render an image with a resolution more than 6000X6000 (runtime error) how can i do?maya 4 thanks

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by filou

29-05-2003|09:31 PM

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Envir_Sphere Reflections

I have made a sphere with an environment texture on it that i want to use for reflections for my refelective objects, and it works how i want it to...

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by phalcon

29-05-2003|12:38 AM

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Glass Render Prob.

I was just playing with different textures. And this happened. Why does the texture on the table stand not render thru the glass? The floor...

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by mshoward82

28-05-2003|12:43 PM

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raytrace shadow transparency

Check this out... I have placed a shader on a plane. The object is to create a facade. I placed a colour .tif image on the colour channel and a...

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by ragecgi

27-05-2003|10:42 PM

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Creating Dome Lighting Without GI Joe

Is there any earthly way to create a dome lighting setup without resorting to GI Joe? I'm been using it but it drags my rendering time down to less...

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by Russell

27-05-2003|02:55 PM

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samplerinfo usded in reflection prob?

hi, if i put env. ball in reflected color slot , it works fine.....but i want surface to start reflecting gradually as it is becoming...

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by olivermagno

27-05-2003|01:49 AM

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Sequencing Images??

I know this may sound a little newbie and I hate asking newbie questions, but when I render a sequence of frames (eg. Sphere.XXX.tga) I cannot get...

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by Aerlinger

26-05-2003|08:22 AM

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Render in black and white

Hi there, Ok guys, here's my question : Is it possible to render directly in B &W ? Thx.

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by olivermagno

26-05-2003|01:16 AM

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samplerinfo usded in reflection prob?

hi, i am attaching image of prob.....could someone plz . tell what is error.............cause if i apply env. ball in directly reflection then...

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by lalamax3d

25-05-2003|01:20 PM

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Mental Ray 3.2 and Alpha Chanel

I don't get any alpha channel on Mental Ray. The option for RGB and Alpha seem to be greyed out in my Global Rendering otpions.. Anybody can help ?

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by aderium

22-05-2003|02:27 PM

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applying textures in large surfaces

Hi there I have a model of a builind, with large surfaces of wall and roof. I want to apply a brick texture to the wals and a tile texture to the...

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by danrocha

20-05-2003|07:54 PM

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Rendering -Alpha Channel and Adobe After Effects!

I have a strange problem! I render an image from Maya, with checked Alpha Channel,save it as tga (for having the alpha), and when i open it in Adobe...

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by ragecgi

20-05-2003|06:55 PM

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How do you achieve this effect?

Im curious as to how you achieve this realistic looking relfection, all i can get is a hot white spot? http://www.hinst.net/~phalcon/how.jpg ...

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by ragecgi

19-05-2003|09:05 PM

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Rendering shadows, for compositing

Does anyone know how to render out a shadow, like from the sun, to my spaceship, and the shadow will appear on the Live Action ground that was filmed...

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by Vectorman

19-05-2003|07:01 PM

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Batch Render | Page: 1 2

I use batch render when I want to preview a rendered sequence of my animation. This proceeding creates a sequence of a determinated number of frames...

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