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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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# 1 08-11-2002 , 07:17 PM

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I just installed Maya and oh my god it is slow - I realize that it is doing a ton of calculations on the fly to add light and objects, etc, but I can't believe that it would be that slow.

Adding a light source and choose "Display Selected Lights" took 3-5 minutes.

My machine is an Athalon 1Ghz, 704MB of RAM, WindowsXP

What are you guys running Maya on?
Is my experience normal?

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# 2 08-11-2002 , 07:29 PM

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You have a problem dude.

My specs: Win2000 - 900MHz - 128 MB RAM
Takes about 1sec to update my challenge submarine with three lights.

Hmm, how many applets are you running Maya with? Remember, photoshop and Maya don´t go along well, since they´re both memory hungry. How about WINAMP? MP3 playing while in Maya even though great, does perform a huge difference since MP3 technology eats system resources to decompress the algoritm.

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# 3 08-11-2002 , 08:00 PM

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I was playing a WMV tutorial (from SM user added image

) - Maybe that was the problem.

I just reformatted my machine so I don't think I need a system refresh...

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# 4 08-11-2002 , 08:07 PM

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Also - I have a 16MB TNT nVidia Video Card - Do you think that is the problem?

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# 5 08-11-2002 , 08:56 PM

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Im on a 1.3 AMD Athlon, 768 megs ram, Windows XP, 64 meg G-force 2 card.

Looks like it your video Card bud, get at least a 64 meg card.

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# 6 08-11-2002 , 09:00 PM

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I've got a 2.0 P4, 1 Gb RDRAM, Win XP Pro, 128 mb GeForce 4 Ti4600...

I'm doing ok. user added image

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The Maya Toolbelt

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# 7 08-11-2002 , 10:07 PM

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I've got;
DELL Inspiron 5000 (laptop)
Pentium III - 600MHz
ATI rage pro 8Mb VRAM (8 MB is max!)
384 MB SDRAM
18GB HDD
Win2000

I do not support Bush! Nor Saddam! Long live UN!

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# 8 08-11-2002 , 10:11 PM

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1.4 P4
256mb RDram
60gb HD (seagate and western digital)
win2k
geforce 2 GTS

i need an upgrade user added image

- Simon

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# 9 08-11-2002 , 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by Nem
1.4 P4
256mb RDram
60gb HD (seagate and western digital)
win2k
geforce 2 GTS

i need an upgrade

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You need one? LOL damn, I´m outdated

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# 10 08-11-2002 , 10:30 PM

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amd 1.4
512 sdram
140gb hd
win2k
geforce2ti

@undseth.. 8mg!!! damn man!!
@adl.. why man.. what you got..

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# 11 08-11-2002 , 10:32 PM

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@Roman

Originally posted by adldesigner
You have a problem dude.

My specs: Win2000 - 900MHz - 128 MB RAM
Takes about 1sec to update my challenge submarine with three lights.

Hmm, how many applets are you running Maya with? Remember, photoshop and Maya don´t go along well, since they´re both memory hungry. How about WINAMP? MP3 playing while in Maya even though great, does perform a huge difference since MP3 technology eats system resources to decompress the algoritm.

Originally Posted by