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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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resizing rotator

I am having touble with my rotate tool. It works fine, but it is HUGE, and if I want to rotate something I always have to dolly out and then rotate....

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by mrmacca

10-11-2003|09:06 AM

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lost a part of my car...

I'm working on a car. I'm doing it in parts.. front side back top and stuff.. now I hid the front and side of the car to work on the back.. and after...

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by bastiaanwormgoor

10-11-2003|08:03 AM

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creating ocean wake

I have been playing around with the ocean wake creator for a while now but I can't ever seem to get good results. has anyone played around with it...

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by ragecgi

10-11-2003|06:08 AM

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rounded edges without smooth?

Hi I am Trying to figure out a way to make rounded edges in polys without using the smooth poly function. The idea is I want to be able to...

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by ragecgi

09-11-2003|11:06 PM

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Question...

The S3DW newsletter said that the positino for SimplyPhotoshop was filled. When were we told about these positions, as i would have loved to had an...

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by Ultragames

09-11-2003|08:16 PM

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REGARDING TRIMS PLEASE HELP!!!

Hi, I have gone through enough documentation and tutorials. But for some surfaces you have to settle down for trimmed surfaces and maybe because...

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by mtmckinley

09-11-2003|02:19 PM

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Specularity and Global Illumination

I've been experimenting with GI for a little while now in both Maya (using Mental Ray, of course) and Cinema 4D. One thing I've noticed is that GI...

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by kbrown

09-11-2003|11:18 AM

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help with batch files. (.bat)

I'm trying to learn how to make batch files on my own so I can easily do certain things on my computer like erase my temporary internet files with a...

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by Darkware

09-11-2003|02:02 AM

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Shadow pass using Mental Ray

I've been experimenting with both compositing and global illumination seperatly and decided to try combining the two to do a realistic 3d composite...

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by Soviut

09-11-2003|12:37 AM

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Great Free books Learn to draw

I ran into this link and has a 2 free books in pdf format. Learn how to draw From Andrew Loomis http://www.saveloomis.org/:)

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by Ultragames

08-11-2003|11:52 PM

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easier way to slice a poly

Ok there has got to be an easier way to slice several poly faces at a time. In 3dmax there was a slice modifier....but to use the splitpoly tool...

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by Grayth

08-11-2003|08:39 PM

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Sleep? Whats that?

So i've been doing lighting for a school play. So i spend from 8 in the morning to 10 at night at school. Nice 14 hour day. Then i get to come home,...

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by Ultragames

08-11-2003|08:15 PM

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Poll: Preferred techniques for NURBS modelling a character?

Ok, I understand there are several methods of doing this to get an equally good result - I would just like to know what techniques people use and for...

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by mtmckinley

08-11-2003|07:38 AM

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rendering no background but have a shadow

I am coming to the completion of my group animation and we were wanting to have our characters doing things as the credits go by. Our problem is...

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by stavs82

08-11-2003|04:04 AM

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Check this out

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/11/07/digital.diva.reut/index.html THink of doing another project? This could get world wide press attension.

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by RickStefani

07-11-2003|10:25 PM

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HELP ..Trying to Connect EP on the EP curve tool

I am trying to connect 2 Edit point to form a Closed Circle. I have tried everything under the sun to try and connect these points. I am just...

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by SuperDave71

07-11-2003|02:54 PM

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Mental Crash

Hi all... When trying to render a certain scene, Mental Ray loves to crash on me (abnormal program termination: maya,exe) with following...

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by Renderizer

07-11-2003|02:09 PM

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Poll: To imax or not to imax Matrix? | Page: 1 2 3 4

Soo... will you spend 3€+ and wait the long cue to get the tiket to see Matrix on imax ... or you will see it on whatever you find tikets asap? ...

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by adldesigner

07-11-2003|09:10 AM

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Shrek it´s good....but...FINDING NEMO IS THE GREATEST!!!!

I agree too!...Shrek is one of the best....but THE BEST OF THE BEST IT´S FINDING NEMO!!!!!!!! What are you think? Hello to everybody i´m new...

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by adldesigner

07-11-2003|08:54 AM

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Is this a hint to what's yet to come?

Found this over at Gamespy. Is this a hint at things to come? First Mark Skelton, now this? ...

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by dave_baer

07-11-2003|08:47 AM

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Poll: FLCL (Furi Kuri)

For those of you who have the privellage of watchig this strange show, what do you think FLCL means?

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by Zyk0tiK

07-11-2003|08:35 AM

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Problems extruding faces

Hi, I am an animation student and new to the forum. I been working in Maya for a few months and lately I been having problems when I extrude faces. ...

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by GundamRX78

07-11-2003|06:09 AM

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mechanical aircraft modeling help

Hi Everyone, Ok so I thought I would take a stab at trying to model something to get me used to the tools outside of doing a bunch of...

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by Grayth

07-11-2003|05:07 AM

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Should I sue? | Page: 1 2

I was using a toothpick and got a splinter in my mouth. Grounds for a lawsuit? :beer:

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by dave_baer

07-11-2003|04:28 AM

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How about specific Maya Sessions?

I came across a forum dedicated to modeling by Bay Raitt and I see that they have these "sessions" where a moderator selects a topic and people go in...

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