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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

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# 1 09-10-2012 , 07:38 AM

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Hi every1

Im rendering an area view of an estate with about 40 houses in it, is there a technique for rendering such massive scenes? because maya is not rendering user added image

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# 2 09-10-2012 , 08:05 AM

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Dare I ask what method you are using to light and render?

You could always render in layers.

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# 3 09-10-2012 , 09:05 AM

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Im using mental ray with maya's default physical sun and sky tab on.

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# 4 09-10-2012 , 09:11 AM

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...try rendering in layers then.

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# 5 09-10-2012 , 09:43 AM

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You could try looking into the mip_binaryproxy node especially if there is a lot of duplicate geometry.

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# 6 09-10-2012 , 10:26 AM

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how do i find the mip_binaryproxy

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# 7 09-10-2012 , 02:30 PM

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It's one of the production shaders hidden by default. You can unhide it by editing the "mentalrayCustomNodeClass.mel" found in the "mentalray\scripts" folder in the Maya install directory. Make a copy of it to your scripts folder where ever you keep your Maya user settings folder "C:\Users\Bob\Documents\maya\scripts", just to avoid messing with the actual instal folder. And edit the line the line highlighted in the image so the 0 is now a 1. Restart Maya and the production shaders are now found in the Hypershade! Mip_binaryproxy is found the geometry rollout of the Mental Ray section.

Ash did a video tut on using iton it.

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