how can I get a smooth sarface

# 1 01-10-2011 , 03:08 PM

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hi
at first my english is not good. I'm begginer in(at) maya.
I created a character with polygon. when I took rendering it's not smooth and soft. I do not want use mesh__> smooth becuse sarface become too many. and I do not want change polygon to subdiv or nurbs becuse I want add hire and ... .( I saw in a Tutorials the character is not smooth but when he took rendering it's became smooth).

please : if anyone want answer this question again please explain step by step

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# 2 01-10-2011 , 03:12 PM

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press 3 on the keyboard with the mesh selected, then render with mental ray.

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# 3 01-10-2011 , 03:30 PM

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press 3 on the keyboard with the mesh selected, then render with mental ray.

Originally Posted by Miss_Nova

I did that but it do not work( the charecter yet is not smooth). what's problem.

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# 4 01-10-2011 , 04:13 PM

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Have you selected the mesh first then press the 3 button, if that does not work show us your mesh.......dave

Edit:What maya version are you using, I think from maya 2009 onwards the 3 button works

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# 5 01-10-2011 , 05:00 PM

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Don't want to be a bastard or anything but for (relative) simple stuff like this, you can find all the info in the helpfiles:
https://download.autodesk.com/us/maya...elp/index.html

My website;
https://www.eyellem.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-van-stein/42/a81/b82

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https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...highlight=yoda

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https://srv01.simply3dworld.com/showt...threadid=29188

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# 6 02-10-2011 , 11:42 AM

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Have you selected the mesh first then press the 3 button, if that does not work show us your mesh.......dave

Edit:What maya version are you using, I think from maya 2009 onwards the 3 button works

Originally Posted by daverave

I selected sphere polygon for example then I pressed the 3 on keyboard then I got rendering with mental ray.
this picture shows version and problem. please help
https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/404/pic22t.jpg/

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# 7 02-10-2011 , 11:55 AM

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use a mental ray approximation node. There is a free tutorial somewhere on the site. just do a search for it.

EDIT - here -> https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35000

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# 8 02-10-2011 , 12:44 PM

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Smooth preview (3-key) render was added to Maya 2009. It is not available in Maya 2008.

Even with smooth preview the model is smoothed at render time to 2 divisions though. It is just done in a buffer so it does not effect the original model. Your options are upgrade to Maya 2009 or greater or put a 2 division smooth on the model and render. You can either keep a duplicate of the unsmoothed mesh or reset the divisions to 0 in the smooth node to get back to the unsmoothed mesh. Just do NOT delete history while the mesh is subdivided.

The mental ray approximation editor for Maya 2008 has problems. Maya 2008 MR approximation editor switched to creating a ccmesh in place of the previous method which caused problems with uv smoothing and textures breaking among other things. It was fixed in Maya 2009 and up but was never addressed in Maya 2008 as far I as I can recall. There may be work-a-rounds but I am not sure how simple they are.

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Last edited by ctbram; 02-10-2011 at 03:56 PM.

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