Problems with area light render

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 17-08-2009 , 12:21 AM

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Hello. Using Maya 8.5 on Precision 690, OS: XP-Pro, 2 Gigs RAM

I am doing a tutorial from the book, "Mastering Maya 8.5". I am on chapter 14.

I have gotten to a point where my render should be close to finished, but suddenly the light is rendering very strangely, creating a weird, crushed glass like texture wherever it hits anything. The rest of the low rez scene is looking fine.

I have attached a screen shot showing the problem. can anyone look at this image and tell me where the problem is?

I have gone over the tutorial steps and also played with various settings for the whole scene to try to sort it out.

Thanks, T

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# 2 05-09-2009 , 07:21 AM

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im not sure if tutorial told u to render in mental ray or not

im not expert at all just guessing because metal ray requires a lot of setting.

so give it a shot with software render and see if it work in software render so at least u know that you got some setting for mental ray wrong..

may you picked mental ray by mistake...

srry that all im able to find out becz im not pro user added image