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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22-08-2012
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Rendering environments quickly
Greenscreened image planes inside transparent 3D spheres (a la Super Monkey Ball)
Three environments: Jungle, desert, and Space Station. All envs to be built in Maya, blah blah blah.
8 minutes long
issue: as I mentioned I have a week to render this. Minimum 720 and it MUST be 30P because the camera grabbing greenscreen doesn't do 24 :< So that's an extra 6 frames each second.
My ideal workflow would be building the environments and camera motions and rendering on GPU, but I don't have any GPU renderers. I want things like palm fronds to be moving, so I can't exactly bake GI, AO, or Shadows can I? Plus there's this moving ball. I'm just looking for a way to render quickly-ish. And I'm realizing that in raytracing polycount is far less of an issue than in a game engine, so the answer isn't "Keep your polycount really low" cause high poly just means more RAM and render startup time. It's shaders and lighting. So, what hints do people have on those fronts?
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23-08-2012
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are you building the assets now?
not sure what you are asking, do you need help with the lighting and rendering?
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My Problem: From the beginning through to the end of the project, I need to plan for fast render speeds and decent visual quality (we're talking 10-20 s/frame on an i7 920)
Possible Solutions:
Low poly geo w/ high res maps
High poly geo w/ medium res maps
baking AO and lighting (what? how?)
Determining the fastest shaders and using those.
The thing is, I can't tell if any of these things have a major effect on render time, except for baking AO, Shadows, and GI. I'm sure that has a huge effect, but my assuption is you can't bake that when you have any moving objects. So I guess the best thing would be for me to figure out how to bake ALL lighting effects except for the lights majorly affected by animated objects. Does this make sense? Is it possible?
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