Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
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25-08-2011
, 12:35 PM
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No alpha present in batch render!
I have cut my scene down to the basic elements, a plane with 'use background' shader, a light and a sphere. i can hit render current frame, and on the alpha channel i can see my shadow. however when i batch render, the alpha channel has gone.
Ive tried all sorts to isolate my problem. i had it all working fine before but not sure where i went wrong.
i know this is a little vague but does is sound familiar to anyone. using tiffs/alpha checked under cam setting
if anyone can shed light on this, i would be very grateful
j
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25-08-2011
, 02:04 PM
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When this happens, and you need the renders right away, you can run my script here, which will render a batch out of the render window.
https://simplymaya.com/forum/showpost...7&postcount=23
Just change the following to what you want.
Code:
string $filename = "render"; int $startFrame = 3; int $endFrame = 24; int $nFramePadLength = 4; // eg name.0000.ext (4 zeros)
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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25-08-2011
, 06:09 PM
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This has been bugging me all day, the issue is with the render layer called shadow_floor. i started from scratch checking my renders in nuke and all was fine, and then it happened again, round about the time i was changing the texture of the main object to include some self illumination.
there aren't any linked assets of importance.
thanks in advance
j