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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You would be best for now just to hit 3 on the keyboard to see a smooth preview (roughly what it would look like smoothed) ,then hit 1 to carry on modelling and not smooth the geometry until you have finished modelling and are ready to render.
Another thing worth noting is you can render a smooth preview using Mental Ray to render instead of Maya software renderer.
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1) you can temporarily smooth preview by hitting 3 on your keyboard with the geo selected, this preview can be rendered in Mental Ray.
2) Permanently smooth , again with your geo selected go to the Mesh menu and hit smooth with the divisions set to 3. If you do this and then after delete your history you will be stuck with this so i would not do this method until the end of your project.
3) you can convert your polygons to Subdivision. Under the Modify/convert menu hit polygon to Subdiv. Again if you are not familiar with Subdiv geo i do not recommend you do this because you will have more questions than answers.
I recommend the first option while still in the modelling process and if you want to render with Maya software renderer, only going for option 2 at render time.
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Go to create/poly primitives and select Torus option box, create a Torus with a
radius of 1
section Radius of 0.1
Twist 45
Subdivisions Axis 8
Subdivisions Height 4
Now select to top faces of the geo you have created and scale in sightly then extrude the face up and scale in again, repeat until you have your cone with straight edges.
One you have your cone you can now select it and hit 3 on the keyboard to see what it looks like smoothed, hit 1 to return to the base unsmoothed version.
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