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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Rendering Problem
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You didn't give much info to go off of. Give us more info and maybe we can be more helpful. Good luck.
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image format avi
start frame:1
end frame:500
camera: perspective
IMage Size
width :1024 x 768
resolution 72
under the maya software tab i just used intermediate quality but change the anti aliasing to medium.
all the log says is
Image name is now AmericanFlag
// Result: saving temporary file C:/Documents and Settings/David/My Documents/maya/projects/default/scenes/AmericanFlag__1472.mb //
// Result: Rendering with Maya Software... //
k...I kinda got the .avi working but really slowly. its bearly using my cpu at all... how can i speed it up?
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As for the AVI, I never render to AVI so I'm not sure what to say. I always render frames (SGI, TIF, TGA, even JPG) and then compile a movie file later. That way I can see each frame as it renders. Often my renders can take 5-30 minutes a frame. 500 frames of that would take a long time. If your computer starts to choke after a while, you could end up screwed.
Also, I didn't know you were doing this in Maya. By rendering within Maya, a lot of your Ram is being used just to keep the application open. I recommend closing Maya when you're ready to render and render through the command line interface. I wrote a simple dos batch file once that I'll give you. It's really simple.
Edit my file in any text editor (notepad), and change the project field to where your project lives, the images field to where you want the renders to go, and the file field should point to your Maya file. Leave my render global overrides alone until you get more experienced. Save the file. Change the "txt" extention to "bat", and double click it.
I hope this helps.