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Render live footage "as is"

Hello, I have a scene in Maya with a camera move, a few 3D objects, Vray Sun and a background plane on which I mapped my live footage. Using...

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by Turboyac

18-11-2014|08:04 PM

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xGen & Mental Ray Issues

Hi guys, I was recently working on your tutorial “creating a pegasus using xgen” on digital tutors and ran into a few problems. Everything...

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by 3dArtist91

12-11-2014|08:26 AM

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Mental Ray Error

I am having a very annoying problem with mental ray. I have some xGen hairs on my model and whenever I go to render the image this error shows up //...

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by xStreetWolfx

11-11-2014|05:47 PM

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Missing shadows on a particular frame

Hello, Having a problem maybe some of might be able to help with if you've run into it before. We have a scene lit by the MR Sun and Sky system,...

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by daverave

05-11-2014|11:19 AM

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Disabling sun and sky

I want to render an object in mental ray in perfect darkness with only the lights I add having any effect on the render. I don't know how to turn...

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by reginald01

28-10-2014|08:02 PM

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Linear Workflow problem

Hey guys. I've got a problem with my renders. I want my final render files (.exr, .tga... whatever works!?), to look exactly like my what's...

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by MikkelSL

20-10-2014|10:18 AM

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Motion Vector Remder Pass

Hi, Thanks in advance for reading this. I am having great difficulty with rendering motion vector passes inside of Maya for use in NukeX. I...

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by Chris Miller

20-10-2014|09:54 AM

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Render each object to a layer in photoshop

Ok, I know this is a beginner question, and I've actually done this before, I just can't for some reason remember how. What I need to do is render...

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by malik125

17-10-2014|08:03 AM

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Unsure of the best way to go about achieving this

Hello all. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on the best way to achieve the following. I'm basically rendering out an...

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by ben hobden

15-10-2014|10:59 PM

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Specific render instructions not working

First I should say I'm both new to here and Maya. I'm modeling some things for a class I'm taking and these are the instructions: AVI: wireframe on...

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by stwert

15-10-2014|06:03 PM

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Rendering Not going as planned

I just made a model that is giving me huge amounts of grief I've mapped out it's UVs and its unfortunately giving me the following output when i...

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by daverave

13-10-2014|11:06 AM

Replies: 5

New RenderFarm RenderSpell

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by Rendercraft3d

09-10-2014|11:02 AM

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mental ray SKY shadows have lines

mental ray SKY shadows have lines How can I make them go away?

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by Gen

07-10-2014|09:46 AM

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ambient occlusion in mi_car_paint_phen_x

mi_car_paint_phen_x doesn't have the ambient occlusion option like mia_material_x. How would you add ambient occlusion to mi_car_paint_phen_x? I...

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by madwh

05-10-2014|11:09 PM

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Arnold wont render diffuse on objects

Okay, im out of ideas. So I applied my diffuse to this object, render it and it worked fine, i added the specular map and bump to it and after that...

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by Skalman

22-09-2014|08:30 PM

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Problem with opening rendered .avi file

Hello, I dont know why but when I render a .avi file (uncompressed) in HD 720 file don't want to play in Windows Media Player. Smaler files in size...

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by David

19-09-2014|10:28 AM

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Black pixels when using Mitchell or Lanczos

I'm getting this issue when I use Mitchell or Lanczos sample mode http://i.imgur.com/8lp3yLF.jpg Even on surface shaders I get these black dots. ...

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by livialivialivia

15-09-2014|02:08 PM

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batch render won't render fully, please help

Hello i'm trying to render a scene with 783 frames of animation with a few lights but i can't seem to get the render to fully complete the render. it...

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by joshuaboyd

05-09-2014|10:08 AM

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3delight animation sequence CALCULATING

http://i.imgur.com/GPiEHtF.png http://i.imgur.com/GPiEHtF.png I just rendered 300 frame animation with 3delight inside maya and now it appears...

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by TehObLiVious

03-09-2014|09:33 PM

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galaxy not working in Metal ray

Hi guys. I converted galaxy in paint effects into polygon, but i did not like what i expected. What did i do wrong. Please show me details. Here's...

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by babyproneedlove

26-08-2014|02:33 AM

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Autodesk Maya - Mental Ray - Baking Textures

Hello everyone and to the person that has the answer to my question. I have been using mental ray to render the scenes I have been modeling in Maya....

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by FreelanceLowery

25-08-2014|04:26 PM

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Painteffect cherrytree is so bright

hello guys i start using paint effect in maya by create a Cherrytree then i convert the thing into a polygon so that it can be seen in mental...

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by babyproneedlove

24-08-2014|07:10 AM

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Batch Render stops after a random number of frames! (OSX)

Hi, when I try to render my scene from maya 2014, the batch render randomly stops, without giving me any errors. After a certain amount of frames...

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by Screaner

23-08-2014|10:18 AM

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Physical Sun And Sky shadow color?

I'm using the Physical Sun And Sky for a scene and can't figure out how to change the shadow color, my shadows are too dark. Turning the Night Color...

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by madwh

19-08-2014|06:51 PM

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Mental Ray - Light Fog Problems

Hi all, I'm pretty new to Maya and I've just begun working with mental ray. I'm trying to create some lit fog/ light rays so I'm using a volume...

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by whitneydigital

09-08-2014|11:20 PM