Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Chrome Shader need help
I am new to Maya and I want to start doing some nice looking things like a chrome ball etc.....I DL the chrome shader from maya website and when i try to use it, it is black and it will not shade the sphere to chrome colored what can i do...... all it is is black ....
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You need to have some environment around to ball. After all, chrome is like a mirror. It gets it's color from reflections and by default maya's environment is black. Oh and remember to enable raytracing too...
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