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About auto size on min/max radius on FG

I found out today how to figure out what numbers mental ray set as auto, when you set min-/max-radius in FinalGathering. Apparently, if you set MR...

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by undseth

13-03-2003|03:26 PM

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please help :)

okay i made a nice tutorial of a temple but when i rendered it its not sharp and doesnt look great what cxan i do ...

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by undseth

12-03-2003|08:20 AM

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Wireframe render

hey what's up peoples! (very frustrated) I've just recently downloaded the wireData plug in. I've unzipped it, and loaded it into maya. ...

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by strytus

11-03-2003|06:40 PM

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Which one is faster to render?

Hi guys, I am making a dragon coming out of the ground. I know my computer is slow...so I might render in the university's comps instead with...

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by Tolerate

09-03-2003|03:57 PM

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Lighting a Bulb?

How can i light up this bulb? I added a ambient light and made it red but when i rendered the whole thing turned red. :)

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by doodle

09-03-2003|03:30 PM

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need help with light :)

hey all am new to MaYa i used it acouple of times i made a glas in MaYa and when am trying ti add light to the picture i just cant see the glas...

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by Nem

09-03-2003|02:59 AM

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temp

this is only temp (sorry) you can delete this now, sorry again Brian

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by brian_ellebracht

07-03-2003|09:33 PM

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how y'all do it?

hi, how do you all handle the software/hardware rendering when you have a scene with models+textures+particles wich would require both render methods...

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by d24e

07-03-2003|11:22 AM

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Rendering a region in a viewport

There is a great new script that allows us to render s region inside the viewports it is in HighEnd3D called: "RenderWindo+" Nir

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by ade90054

06-03-2003|11:44 AM

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rendering objects w/ only shadows

hello everyone. I'm quite new to Maya but I wasn't too sure if i should have asked this in the newbie section. I'm pretty sure this was asked...

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by strytus

06-03-2003|05:29 AM

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Area Lights, GIJoe and GI

Me again, Got a Q for you all! :) I posted a Q thru the Maya mailing list and either they're all asleep or no one wants to answer my post...

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by Nem

05-03-2003|08:04 PM

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Expert tips on GIJoe and buildings

i know a lot of you use GI Joe and i know a lot of you use it really well (brian :)), well im wanting to use it with a building im modelling...

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by Nem

04-03-2003|08:26 PM

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Help with Glass shader

I'm trying to apply the "glass_8" shader from the shader library to a wine glass I made. (I just made the glass for example) But it looks nothing...

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by Fusion

04-03-2003|08:15 PM

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Letterbox effect

I'm trying to find a way to do a letterbox effect (the black bars you see on the top and bottom of some films) in Maya. I know it can be done in...

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by LordPhobos

02-03-2003|02:43 PM

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Colour Bleeding

I´ve been playing around a bit with mental ray with Global Illumination and Final Gather for maya4.5 and came up with this pic: ...

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by lurifrax

02-03-2003|01:33 PM

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Help

Can anybody tell me how i creat an environment variable an set it to 1? thats for solve the problem of MR nodes and shaders dont appear in the...

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by englar

02-03-2003|12:59 PM

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HDRI | Page: 1 2

Well, I'll go make a very simple model in the next hours and I have decided that I want to use mental ray to illuminate the scene with a hdri image....

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by Jozvex

01-03-2003|04:27 AM

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mental ray stories -Final Gathering- | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

I plan to finally dive into mental ray and get a little wiser. Please contribute with your godlike knowledge of mentalray :) FIRST SOME ISSUES:...

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by Jozvex

01-03-2003|04:15 AM

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Mental Ray Update 1.5.1

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/maya/getmental Get it now... but I think you hvae to uninstall 1.5 first -Emo

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by Jozvex

26-02-2003|04:21 AM

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Background Color?

This is going to sound very newbish.. but I haven't seen an option to change the black background color when rendering... is there even such an...

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by Emo

25-02-2003|06:14 AM

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projector maps

hey all How would you create projector maps thru spotlights in maya? if i used a spotlight projecting onto a brickwall to create the shadows...

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by astroboii

19-02-2003|03:28 AM

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How to use mental ray

Does anyone know of a good tut about how to use mental ray? I have just got MR 1.5, and I need some guidance...? :banghead:

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by Kühl

17-02-2003|08:52 PM

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Shadows and composite pictures

i want to add an object to a picture. I created an image plane and light source to match the scene and now i need to immitate the object shadows. can...

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