Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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NEWBIE MAYA QUESTION ...PLEASE HELP..!!!
Maya 2009 ...Just finished first model ...and want to render in mental ray ..but when i do I only get one sided render ...I cannot manipulate ..to see sided and back ..how do you render a scene that you can see all sides then export for after effects (with mental ray render .. does it need to be animated or what ..i want to have zoom attributes rotate etc ..but a clean mental ray version ...I watched a tutorial on exporting the nodes to ae ..but even then no render mental ray with full 3d control ... hopefully i explained myself well ...please help....................i need to know fast...
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Mental Ray which is a software renderer spits out two dimensional images, you can't rotate to a different view to see the bike hidden behind the truck, what you see is what you get, like a photograph. As far as I know, AE is not a 3D program, its more like a 2.5D so I doubt you can directly import 3D geometry, maybe there are plug-ins for that (I think there id a way to do it through Photoshop extended).HELLO GUYS.....IM USING .....
Maya 2009 ...Just finished first model ...and want to render in mental ray ..but when i do I only get one sided render ...I cannot manipulate ..to see sided and back ..how do you render a scene that you can see all sides then export for after effects (with mental ray render .. does it need to be animated or what ..i want to have zoom attributes rotate etc ..but a clean mental ray version ...I watched a tutorial on exporting the nodes to ae ..but even then no render mental ray with full 3d control ... hopefully i explained myself well ...please help....................i need to know fast...
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If you render an animation with the same settings as a single imageHow do you animate your scene and render with mental ray to get the same crispness and detail as render as one still image, you will get the same crispness and detail (unless you've got motion blur on, but that's a separate issue).
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MENTAL RAY
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That will show you all the necessary steps. For playback, use fcheck. Open fcheck, then File > Open animation, and choose the first frame.
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By the way another question how do render a transparent scene ..you know without Maya's greyed background or environment?
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But anyway, about the transparency thing, depends what you need to do with it. If you check the alpha channel in the render, you will notice that the black environment won't be included, so by default that will be used as transparent if you save out the image as a png for example. Or you can take the alpha channel into AE and use it there. Sorry can't give you tons of details on that process right now.
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One of my old jobs was teaching English as a foreign language in Japan. It was difficult to explain words to low level students without using other words they may not understand. So answering "how do i render a transparent scene?" with "yadda yadda alpha channel." is perhaps not as constructive as you think it is.
i find this thread annoying because of what you mentioned but also because of the content. These are some incredibly basic questions here and to finish it off with "i need to know fast" is a bit cheeky. no explanation or anything. What could you possibly be doing that you need to know so fast? Also, the questions are pretty basic i'd be surprised if you couldn't get the answer from google, or even the search function on the site.
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