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I am animating some subD hands which just aren't deforming properly. I have tried repainting the weights many times and using influence objects but neither of them produces sufficiently...

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I've been at this for months and no matter what I try I simply cannot get rid of a striping pattern produced by the ocean shader on the ocean's surface when viewed from far away:
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I am rendering some paint FX vegetation and its corresponding shadows in a separate pass which I will later composite onto a background plate. The paint FX vegetation pass works fine until...

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I'm getting this weird problem when I try to do a batch render. The first few hundred frames will render out ok, and then a few frames will start showing up completely dark except for a weird...

I am going through the Learning Maya 5 book on Rendering and it says on page 310:



If you have no "Create mental ray Nodes" tab in your Hypershade, you have to add an environment variable to...

So far I've been using the Maya's hardware renderer because that's the default one I think. But what are the pros and cons of the other renderers? Should I stick to one, or should I use different...

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I am doing a lighting tutorial and it says to create a Point or Spot Light, then go to the Attribute Editor and scroll down to the mental ray section. However, I can find no such section in...

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Thanks for the tips on the alpha channel for the paint FX- it's finally working. There seems to be some problem with the paint FX shadows though. Things look ok when everything's...

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Thanks for the tips! The image i'm trying to get is of an island with some vegetation on it. I did the vegetation with Paint FX and I was just simply unable to get a good alpha of just the...

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I am trying to render some foreground stuff in a separate pass so I can later composite it into the background, but the edges in the alpha channel aren't sharp enough, resulting in a blurry...