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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Cylinder Triangles
From what I've been taught recently, is that you need to have no triangles in your mesh but how do you do that with a cylinder?
Do I just leave it? Or start again and create it differently? If so, how?
Thanks guys!
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Keeping a clean mesh is important but a few triangles and ngons on non deforming geo are not going to make any difference.
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Thanks so much!
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If you work in games, tris are acceptable...but film is quads!
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