Hello,

I have a question about rendering objects in Maya, for compositing in After FX. I'm in Maya 2013, using Vray to render, working on a scene with my models in front of a sky background.
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You're right of course! No need to use Vray to render that. Surface shader seems to work. I also disabled sRGB in my render settings (which changed the gamma).

I normally work with After Effects...

Thanks, let me try that. Yes I have to render it in Maya for the camera move to be applied to the live footage. Also the plane is on the ground, so I have shadows and contact points with my 3D...

No one?

I remember in an old version of Maya, all you had to do was turn off the lights and put your footage material at 100% self-illumination. How come this doesn't work anymore? Any idea?
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Hello,

I have a scene in Maya with a camera move, a few 3D objects, Vray Sun and a background plane on which I mapped my live footage.

Using VRay, I've already rendered my 3D objects and...

Thanks!

Jeremy

Thanks guys - I'm just starting out with displacement maps. Could you give me a simple outline of how to use a displacement map in my situation?

Hello,

I'm creating a rock cliff running alongside a long desert road. The wall is built out of small detailed stone blocks put together.

You can imagine how heavy my project is with just one...

Thanks Dave - Will try that if I run into any more problems. For now it seems to work by decreasing the step size of my Rigid solver to almost 0.

Best
Jeremy

Hello,

I have a problem with a rigid body disappearing through another one, basically a rock (active body) falling through a road (passive body). The rock is meant to bounce on the ground, but...