Maya Software and Hardware rendering

Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 19-08-2004 , 05:24 AM

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Hey

I've got the following. I'm using a fire effect and a smoke effect. Now by default the fire uses Maya Software and the smoke uses Maya Hardware. If I select my renderering method (Software/Hardware), only one effect gets rendered. How do I make them both use Maya hardware or how can I get them to render at the same time.

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# 2 19-08-2004 , 05:26 AM

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I forgot to say. I'm using Maya 5

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# 3 19-08-2004 , 02:16 PM

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I think that you cant... You have to do the render 2 times then combine them in a composition software.

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# 4 19-08-2004 , 04:55 PM

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Well instead of using the Maya smoke effect which uses sprites, you could do your smoke with clouds which render in software. Then you could render them together.

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