I am having a Maya asset handed over to me and they are asking what format I want it in. The deal is that they have been using triple switch shading to apply surfaces and need to know if they need to...

The texture is a mixture between a tile-able leather bump stipple and wrinkled paper (cardboard), the paper is put into areas where the seat would be more worn or saggy.

I would like to do both...

Well I did say that my opinion wasn't balanced, although every production house I've been in lately have all swapped over to Vray so that must mean something, one of them I know has trialed every...

I had a lane-way model I captured using 123catch (autodesk free program), it provided me with some kind of environment to put around the car, I plan on making a proper background that isn't...

Well I've been playing around with it for some months now and I can't say it's fast because I'm not interested in optimizing my scene at this stage, I just want to get used to using it and putting it...

You guys is awesome. Shadows back

I've never packaged up a scene before so I hope this works. I suspect image maps and things will not be there but none of that stuff should matter. I isolated the specific geometry that has the...

Hi, I have an object in my scene that isn't casting any shadow, it wont let me check the cast shadow box for some reason.
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I tried uploading the original as an attachment but it would go through.

Thanks, it seems your way was different but not necessarily any easier. Here is how my UV mesh was laid out.

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc401/djwaterman/TireUV_Horizontal.jpg

And...