personally i think it would be better to use a video fx package like after effects, and composite it over the top. it already has a built in laser beam creater, it would be alot easier.
not sure how...

Ive been trying to find out alot of info on HDRI's as ive got a plane that ive modeled and what to have a realistic render of it.
ive tried a HDRI a few times and it works great apart from the...

Hi to everyone,
I get how to transfer normal maps from a high res model to a low res model, ive searched the web and seen it done a million times, but how do you get that normal map flattened in...

hi everyone, me again.
does anyone know of good tutorials for rendering layers (maya 7 upwards) ive been looking for ages, found a couple, but cant get my head round it. a free video would be...

very helpful, cheers mate.

i know, i know, a noob question to alot of people.
but its been bugging me for a while, ive got a great texture of the earth, im using spherical mapping, and i cant get the top and bottom (the...

its in a group of six buttons to the right hand side of the keyboard, just above delete and next to home.

i would realy like to see an entire seen set up and rendered in layers, something like a star wars space battle, setting up the background, animating background ships, foreground ships flying, or a...

ive read up a little more and tried the BOT, (block ordered textures) and it worked great, i can now render some highly detailed textures on my models.
worth a try for anyone else with similar...

i could only go up to 2048 a while back, but after i upgraded to a better graphics card, i can now go alot higher.