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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29-01-2016
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camera environment/image planes
I've been experimenting with camera projections recently. The whole thing seems relatively easy but there's one element that is stumping me -
I create a camera and image plane, adding an image to the plane as per a standard procedure. My problems start when I want to get at that plane later - I've been setting them to 'looking through camera' as opposed to 'all views' in the visibility options upon creation. If I hide the plane (CTRL-H) at any point, I can't for the life of me find the node anywhere to get it back in the viewport, or to adjust any options I might need to.
I can't get at it through the camera attributes, and I've dug all round the hypershade and in hypergraph>connections and come up blank...
anyone.../
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It's not in the outliner either, even with 'DAG only' unchecked and 'shapes' on.
Just a thought - I've linked a material and image to the camera to create the projection. Would that alter the connection hierarchy?
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Clicked 'create' under 'environment' in the camera attributes tab, and then loaded an image file in the image plane attributes,Yes, I'm not sure exactly your process. You've said you added an image "as per standard procedure" but perhaps you could explain exactly what you've done.
Then, assigned a lambert to my geometry, created a file node (as projection) for the diffuse, loaded in the same image file I used in the image plane into the file node, then linked that projection node to the camera.
When first creating the image plane I've set it to 'only this camera' (or whatever it is) so I can only see the image plane in that camera view so as to avoid confusion. But if i need later to view that image plane in another camera; I cant find the attribute panel I need to check the 'in all views' option
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It never occurred to me that the image panes might me sitting right there as their own independent node.
Sorry 'bout that. Case of 'wood for the trees..'
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