Background color HOW!!??

Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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# 1 26-07-2004 , 12:17 AM

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Ok Dk.. been trying to figure out how in hell I change the background color of software renders to something other than black.. For the life of me I cannot locate the darn option.. I keep getting told to go to display options and it should be there but so far no dice in finding it...

ARG! Want to tear hair out..

Thanks for any info..

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# 2 26-07-2004 , 12:19 AM

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D'oH! Never mind... typical, found it 5 seconds after I posted this..

Window > Settings/Preferences > Colors > Render View

Figures..
Heh

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# 3 26-07-2004 , 12:20 AM

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in your camera's attributes under the environment tab.

-Mike
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# 4 26-07-2004 , 12:21 AM

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oops, sorry false alarm.. that doesn't seem to do it...

anyone? HELP!

note: this referred to my post not mckinleys..

Last edited by MorituriMax; 26-07-2004 at 05:42 PM.

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# 5 26-07-2004 , 12:23 AM

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Rog that.. thanks for the tip.. I'm still trying to break out of my bad lightwave habits... at least Maya isn't as hard to learn as Bryce when you have been working in windows for awhile.

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