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# 1 07-03-2008 , 08:20 AM
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Mental Ray and rough edges ?

Hi, I'm new here and I've been learning maya for a few months now and I've had this problem that comes up every once in a while when I render with Mental Ray and I've tried searching for it but I just don't know the correct term for this problem.
When I render with Mental Ray the edges tear sometimes while in Maya's software render everything looks fine just as in the perspective view. Any help would be appreciated.
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# 2 07-03-2008 , 11:32 AM
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hmm, im not sure whats happening there, MR and subd issues it seems, shot in the dark here, go to the approximation editor (windows>rendering editors>mental ray> approximation editor) have the object selected and in the polygon and subdivision section hit create and try the render again. could be tesselation issues.

# 3 07-03-2008 , 11:05 PM
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Thanks, I gave it a try and the edges are still visible, they change slightly if I change to Curvature from Parametric.

# 4 10-03-2008 , 11:51 AM
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what version of maya are you using? i think earlier versions had problems with sub ds.

# 5 10-03-2008 , 12:37 PM
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It's mental Ray playing up.

You could, select your object goto: Subdivision Surfaces >> Collapse Hierarchy>> and set the number of levels to 2 or 3.

Or convert your object to Poly's when it comes time to Render.


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# 6 11-03-2008 , 01:29 AM
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Thanks for the tips, I managed to make it work, I guess it's about time to update to a newer version.

Just editing this post for future reference, I tried collapsing the hierarchy but that didn't solve the problem but converting it to polygons worked just fine.


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