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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.

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# 241 19-04-2012 , 10:22 PM

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Pixal thats looking a little washed out any chance of making it as crisp as your last shot of the 190...............dave

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# 242 20-04-2012 , 04:39 AM

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I know. It's bugging me as well. Still in preview mode. I will attempt a production render tonight. Hopefully it will be finished by morning.

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holy crap does it take that long?

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# 245 20-04-2012 , 01:17 PM

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Whats your system spec at the mo...........dave

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# 246 20-04-2012 , 01:26 PM

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LOL. Dave do you realy want me to answer that one? It is nearly 7 years old. I'm surprised Maya even runs on it. Here goes. One of the orignal core 2 duo machines. 2.4ghz. Only 4 GB memory. They don't even sell the memory anymore.

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# 247 20-04-2012 , 01:40 PM

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Age does not matter its what you do with it (thats what I keep saying to myself)........LOL.......have you checked that you are using all you core (you can check that in the task manager when rendering). Yours is not a massive scene so I dont think it should take that long to render.............dave

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# 248 20-04-2012 , 02:05 PM

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Yep, both cores are running at full speed. I have been keeping an eye on it and the killer is RAM. I run out of RAM and then the machine starts swapping to disk. The machine is then only as fast as the it can do physical IOs.

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# 249 20-04-2012 , 02:13 PM

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You could try changing the tile setting from 64 to 32 that might stop you wrighting to disc...........dave

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# 251 20-04-2012 , 02:57 PM

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Go to rendering/render/batch render untick auto tile size then change size from 64 to 32..........it might work...............dave

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Thanks. Will try it out.

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Thanks Dave. That did help. Just under 45 minutes. This is as sharp as I can get it. I disabled antialiasing for the render. The haze combined with antialiasing was messing up the whole scene.
I need to do some more research into antialiasing to see which algorithm/settings to use.

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