Norman Rigs head disappears when i render

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# 1 10-12-2012 , 01:41 PM

Chealey
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when i do a render in my maya using my laptop i lose the norman rigs head, this only seems to happen within my scenes as the norman i imported works fine on his own in the original file. if it lets me ill import a picture to explain norman missing head better. (some parts are visible) , i need to render on my laptop as i have a deadline for university and will not be able to use the studio computers for rendering after friday heres hoping someone knows how to fix this! user added image

(i need to be able to render at home over christmas so i can finish animating and make tweeks to things already animated)

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# 2 10-12-2012 , 02:12 PM

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What renderer are you using maya software or mental ray...............dave

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# 3 11-12-2012 , 11:21 AM

Chealey
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hey I'm using maya software, as the lighting im using is d maps, also i tried it in mental ray too also dosen't work , currently rendering out as tiffs , but jpegs also do the same thing >.<

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# 4 11-12-2012 , 12:25 PM

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Go to the shape node of the mesh and look into the tab "render stats" see that primary visabilty is ticked...............dave

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# 5 11-12-2012 , 01:10 PM

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all primary visibility is on, i tried that from checking some old forum posts with similar issues. we re currently not sure if its my system itself but all suggestions are welcome

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# 6 11-12-2012 , 01:43 PM

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Try changing the shader for it...............dave

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# 7 11-12-2012 , 01:50 PM

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how do i change the shader on the norman rig? when i just try and pull on a different texture like i would for normal geo it dosent do anything.

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# 8 11-12-2012 , 01:54 PM

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Forgot it was rigged, try uploading the maya scene file will have a look for you.............dave

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# 9 11-12-2012 , 02:41 PM

Chealey
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how do i do that here, as its not one of the accepted formats in the forum and i dont know how to zip it only make it a compresed rar (which is invalid) sorry for being a pain.

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