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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I could try and redraw one in photoshop, or try and manipulate the images to create a texture. I've thinking of the latter - anyone got any hints on how to "level out" the image to get rid of shadows, highlights etc? I've tried with the clone and healing tools, which can be done though it's time consuming - anyone know of any photoshop actions or tips to do this another way?
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Any ideas re the texturing of the shade?
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then apply the collors with a durt map on them. and an extra durt map on the specularity and bump.
and the collors give them a slight transparency to match the realistic one.
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A dirt map - is that a 3d max term? What's it's equivalent in Maya - diffuse? Or am I completely wrong?
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If your not going to model it, then you just apply an photoshop texture. Thou i think to get the ultimate quality you should model it
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I'll post back when I get some done.
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I've chosen a simpler pattern. I will use it's texture as the background texture of the lamp sphere (so it's colour will be the glass colour of the final lamp) and am also using it as a guide to create the metal beading. It's just curves created on the live surface, then extruded. I was thinking of converting to polygons to weld the crossover points, but think I might actually just leave them seperate - with a bit of tweaking it may look fine unwelded - any opinions on this?
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Although it doesn't look like much, the metal beading was quite a task to do. Extduded curves, then going over it all and welding it together. I maintained quads (might convert it to sub-ds) and that was a bit tricky.
Comments and crits welcome as usual.
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Fairly happy with the texture and materials. The shade has no translucency yet - when I add it, it seems to just get really really bright, rather than looking like the light is just passing through.
Crits and comments welcome. Also, I wondered re lighting a scene with this. Would using the shade itself to light the scene using FG be an idea? If I did, how could I get the light to bounce around the scene? I was thinking perhaps I could also create a light, with GI enabled, that had the shade mapped to it's colour channel, placed inside the shade, but set to ignore the shade?
Any other suggestions would be welcome. I really like the idea of lighting a scene using this light and having it's light bounce around but I'm not very familiar with GI and FG.
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