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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 10-04-2006 , 09:47 PM

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# 2 13-04-2006 , 03:38 AM

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i can see the eye LOL, the red i looks sort of like the ones in the movies Skulls. and the render looks really good to.

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# 3 13-04-2006 , 08:28 AM

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how long did it take to render?

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# 4 13-04-2006 , 05:42 PM

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ummmm, if im not mistaken, around 9 hours,l i could be wrong though, lol

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# 5 13-04-2006 , 06:14 PM

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this loosk awesome

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# 6 13-04-2006 , 07:21 PM

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thankyou!:attn:

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# 7 13-04-2006 , 09:15 PM

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9 hours to render that!!!!!!!!!!!!! user added image

its almost impossible because as i can see, you only hve an hdri and 3 sphere with a blinn material.

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# 8 13-04-2006 , 09:41 PM

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no, i used these ....., DGS, global illumination, final gather, secondary diffuse bounce, HDRI, and an area light, the render had full settings

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# 9 13-04-2006 , 09:52 PM

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still 9 hrs thats madness

tip for ppl wen doin render usin metal ray always batch render the single frame as this saves time an i less likely to crash

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# 10 13-04-2006 , 11:27 PM

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No- 9 hours is f*cking insane length for that.

But w/e. Oh, about the GI AND 2ndary Diff. Bounces- set the bounces to like 4 and turn the GI acc. to real low.

Anyway, soon I will release my own GI raytracer, and I'll let peeps test it on Maya scenes... I'll write it this weekend.

I hope that can render stuff like that in less than 9 hours...
(im working my a$$ off trying to implement Bidirectional Path Tracing (used in Mental Ray) and even possibly Metropolis Light Transport...(Metropolis is the most advanced algorithm used commercailly)

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# 11 15-04-2006 , 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by Joopson
ummmm, if im not mistaken, around 9 hours,l i could be wrong though, lol

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even 6 hours is crazy enough..
well perhaps ur computer sux

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# 12 15-04-2006 , 08:56 PM

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oh yeah... I didn't think of that. I just assumed he was oversampling everything :p

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# 13 16-04-2006 , 12:56 AM

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lol, no, it froze when my screensaver came up, it should have taken less than an hour.i rerendered it without the screensaver coming up, it took 57 minutes

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my comp is bad, but it doesnt suk, lol, 1.5 GB ram is enough for me, lol

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