hey, I know it's been a while, but I've been trying to do fur with image based lighting, even with the hdr image mapped onto the inside of sphere, but the fur, no matter what the color or options,...

hm, I got it to work somehow (tweaked things attributes), but now, with hdri, no matter what the hair color is, it renders out silvery. anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks in advance

does anyone know if fur works with image based lighting? and if it does, how? I've only gotten it to render black. thanks in advance

Yeah, i haven't used Maya in a while since school started, but I noticed that I can't click on the toolbox anymore, I can only double click, but I can't select tools that way. also, right clicking on...

and I solved the problem, just used proxy smooth instead, no more spots, yay!

I found out what the problem was. after I had bound the skin I polysmoothed it, the polysmooth in the history is what is causing the dots. I did the delete non-skin history but it screws up my...

ok, when I render with 3d motion blur, with a blur by frame value greater than .8, black spots show up on the moving model every so often, randomly. the only thing I've done that's gotten rid of it...

well, I finally got an image together I thought was worth posting of my T. rex (I rendered it large and now it's my desktop), because I've as of yet haven't gotten my movie down to a good size for...

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