Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a ton Pony!

Hey guys, I'm really stumped on this so I'll put it pretty bluntly. I need to make a pretty thin wire that sort of curves around and is wavy etc etc. Is there an easy way to do this? The only way I...

Load the MR shaders(I forget the exact line but it's added to your Maya.env file). Then, on whatever camera you are using to render, in it's attributes under the mental ray shader, add a connection...

Hmmm... I'll give it a shot, but I'm more or less looking for a really high detail splatter(i.e. flick some paint onto a canvas). But none the less I'll give mikes tut a try :D

Hm, I just thought of this, but does anyone know of any good ways to make a splatter?

Try it through the command promt, that's what I had to do(although Terminal in OS X). I beleive the command is: mayarender_with_mr -file "/path/to/the/file.mb". Renders the image in the default...

What methods did you use to get the fine fence like look out of the front intake and stuff (the little holes)

Now this has had me completely stumped all day today. So I finally came to visit the good ol' newbie forum. Anyway, I'm modeling a case(or a box of) of paintballs, and I need my paintballs to be a...

I would hope after getting the crap beaten outa me in a motion capture studio, that I would get something in return ;).

Hey everyone,
Recently I've been interested in putting some HDRI into some recent models of mine. However, when reading tutorials and what not, they all say I need a conversion app for .hdr...