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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Feel free to use this challenge's guidelines for your own personal projects. For consideration as a "winner" though, we are judging based on:
1)Following rules.
2)Matching look and feel of provided concepts.
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I wanna try but...
Im looking for some, fog tutos and lights so i can start so plz if u konw where I can find a GREAT and easy to follow plz answer
Question: exterior? like mountains and all that? HAVE no idea
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You've seen my hallway segments I'm sure. Say I have three in a row. Would it be better to leave all three segments as seperate objects or combine all three? Here are the assets to each proposition:
Leaving them as seperate objects:
-You are left with 24 polygons. 8 polygons per segment.
-One swatch in hypershade with the file texture can be used for each segment.
-You clog you scene up by having many objects since there are so many hallways.
Combining them together:
-Since you combine all 3, you can merge vertices and be left with 8 polygons, which greatly lowers your poly count.
-Must create a seperate swatch in hypershade and repeat the U or V in the 2Dtextureplacement file 3 times to ensure that the hallway texture covers the entire hallway correctly. (because you cannot map the UVs manually over the texture file to do this.)
-You prevent your scene from being clogged because you don't have as many objects. (having 50 faces - each face being an object of its own - does take more computer power than having a single object with 50 faces)
EDIT* - Nevermind. I just realized that I wouldn't have to create an extra swatch and edit the UV repeat value because I can just extend the actual uv's manually to cover the file texture 3 times. For some reason, I have it in my head that you have to stay inside the zero to one range. Oh well. Problem solved.
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Think of them as a room, just as the main rooms have computer consoles and stuff all over, the corridors should have somthing, like big pipes, cables, paneling, etc.
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Only the original objects are factored into the max polycount. Also, for the challenge, remember, you AREN'T creating any kind of scene. You are purely creating art assets. So you do not have to display the hallway system all put together for your final. You CAN show an example, demonstrating how they work, and, like I mentioned way back when, if you want to make a scene for yourself, that's fine. Scenes won't be a part of the final challenge entry, though.
You finals are pretty much just beauty shots of each object/room or each character you make.
Once you make a house, for example, your job is done. You do not place it ON the game map where it would be IN THE GAME. You DON'T do this. It's NOT your job! You simply hand over the completed house, all by its lonesome, and the level designer takes it from there.
I know it's kind of a weird concept for those used to making EVERYTHING for themselves.
[PS> Not necessarily talking to you, Dark. Just another in-general rule recap.
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Makes much more sense now.
This challenge has opened my eyes and my mind more to the daily troubles of game art.
Cool idea Mike!
Tho I'm not able to enter, I'm learnin a LOT!
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Once the mesh is in memory, it can can be displayed in any configuration, scaled up, down, rotated in any direction etc. Yet it still just instances of the single mesh.
Of course you still need to display the polygons that make up them all though, so the polygons displayed is still double, but the memory the mesh uses is only for one mesh.
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As you say it's a lot different from modelling a whole finished thing. It must be jolly to look in the finished scene and think 'that's my house' when the level is running though.
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The only difference would be that I would recognize the models.
And as Icarus mentioned, the polycounts displayed on the screen are still counting each successive piece placed in the scene, but for the challenge's approximate 50k poly limit, that's only figured by adding up the polys of each unique piece, and not it's many copies.
It would be up to the level designers to make sure that they aren't overdoing the polys-per-screen as they are the ones placing things around.
If it were to come to a point where they really need a certain piece lowered, you still have the original model file. You would modify it, and simply replace the old one. When next time the game is loaded, it pulls the new geometry from the list.
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