Erm, what am I ready for?

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Russell Bolding
CEO/Founder - Russelltopia Studios
Web:https://www.russelltopia.com
Email:russbo@russelltopia.com

If you really want to get "artistic", try using render layers for effect. Maybe try a distance setup where you render objects seperately based on distance from the camera...you can also render in the more traditional way and do seperate layers for things like specular, shadows,etc. Edit each layer seperately and put them together in Photoshop for some interesting results. Adldesigner put the link up somewhere to a nice tut at Gnomon Online for traditional layer rendering

Just another way of enhancing and extending the render capabilities of Maya for you

Darkon

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Red bellows of flame have blackened my stones
Convulsing my frame and cracking my bones
Hell's dragons of steel who roar in their chains
Crawl into my caves to suck out my veins.....

-The Mountain P.F.M.

I really didn't understand anything you just said but... it works. I'll post my latest renders this weekend for next week and show you what I did with GI Joe and all my other shaders. I'm impressed with my own work but I know there's more I can do to make it look more realistic. I may do some experimenting with HDRI soon and see if it yields better results. Thanks again, D, for all of your advice!

- Always,
Russell

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Russell Bolding
CEO/Founder - Russelltopia Studios
Web:https://www.russelltopia.com
Email:russbo@russelltopia.com

Okay... here we go again! I've decided to give MR another try... why, I'll never know. ;/ Question: What the heck does this mean?

// Error: (Mayatomr.Nodes) : Could not find a mentalrayGlobals node //
// Info (Mayatomr): Aborted //

...and why am I getting it?

It was odd and annoying at first... now it's just plain p!SSing me off! HELP!!

- Russell

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Russell Bolding
CEO/Founder - Russelltopia Studios
Web:https://www.russelltopia.com
Email:russbo@russelltopia.com

Hmmm.......I know MR will fail if the dedicated port is in use by another program...though I'm not sure if this is the case here. What do you have running when you are trying to use MR? Anything other than the OS and Maya?

Are you getting this on trying to load the plugin or when trying to use it?

Darkon

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Red bellows of flame have blackened my stones
Convulsing my frame and cracking my bones
Hell's dragons of steel who roar in their chains
Crawl into my caves to suck out my veins.....

-The Mountain P.F.M.