Hardware Render Buffer

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# 1 04-12-2004 , 04:26 AM

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When I use the Hardware Render Buffer to render out a path animation with Flow Path Object, The alpha channel is ignored even when I select Hardware Alpha. A default black is matted to the background. I have been getting an error message:

Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to flipbookRW.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -Craig

*I am rendering a Tiff sequence

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# 2 05-12-2004 , 07:07 PM

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Not sure, but it could be that your hardware card doesn't support alphas. Try settiing Luminance alphas.

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# 3 06-12-2004 , 04:29 PM

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It was actually working earlier last week. Now I keep getting a flipbook error message. I'd render it with the normal Maya or mental ray software, but the edges get to pixalated. I'm not sure what to do.

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# 4 06-12-2004 , 04:52 PM

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If the edges get too aliased in the software renderer, then up the anti-aliasing quality.

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# 5 06-12-2004 , 05:42 PM

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Yeah, the aliasing was maxed. They still have saw toothed edges

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# 6 06-12-2004 , 06:58 PM

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That doesn't make any sense. If it's one thing Maya does well, it's anti-aliasing. Do you have pre-multiply turned off or something? What are your anti-alias settings?

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# 7 06-12-2004 , 07:33 PM

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It could be because I built it in nurbs.

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# 8 06-12-2004 , 07:37 PM

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No, I work in NURBs sometimes and get nice clean edges. If you want help, post an image of your render, and maybe your render globals. Something is amiss.

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