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12-12-2015
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Mental ray - Materials not visible in render but viewport
I modelled a toilet, then applied the blinn material to the base and also gave that cap a material (also blinn) with another color.
Now I want to render the image, select mental ray as renderer and the problem becomes visible. The Toilet_base part has not the dark tone I set up in the hypershade. The toilet_cap renders just fine.
My questions:
What are the possible reasons?
Is it a geometry related issue?
Is mental ray fine with smoothed models?
and...
What can I do generally to avoid that?
I recently tried to render other objects too with mental ray and often I have noticed that the materials are not showing up in the render image, but in the viewport. (Sometimes with flickering or green faces)
Sigh... thanks in advance.
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13-12-2015
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Did you try to work with mental ray mia materials instead of blinn?
Mental ray is normally working very fine with smoothed objects. I have never faced an issue like this. Recheck the also properties of your blinn.
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Solution
I did the following: I exported the model as scene: same problem
I exported the model as fbx and loaded it into a new scene: problem solved
Im wondering still.. How can i fix such scene related issues? Is exporting stuff out and such a common workstep generally?
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May the Maya-force be with you ;-)
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