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Volume lighting and transparency

A tricky scenario here. If somebody knows a solution or a workaround, it would definitely make my week! Scene: Night, inside a dusty old room...

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by robchis

16-09-2003|08:42 AM

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while rendering....

while rendering a frame.. is there a way to find out how long the frame took to render. I have my output dialog box open, but it says total...

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by Darkware

16-09-2003|05:41 AM

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Final Gather + File Texture

That´s the massage that apperas if I try to render my scene with Final Gather. :mad: Any idea how to fix that?

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by Bryce

15-09-2003|11:25 AM

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Newbie Rendering Question

Hey Everyone, First off, I'm an admitted newbie with MAYA, but I'm learning. I'm think I'm trying something simple. I have imported one of...

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by clebo99

14-09-2003|01:10 PM

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How Do I Use A Volume Light?! :/

Okay, maybe this is a question for the newbie forum but I was wondering... how on earth do you use the volume light? Can it be used in clylindrical...

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by Russell

13-09-2003|11:20 PM

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someone uses mrstdalone v3.1??

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by gorjie

12-09-2003|05:27 PM

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Medical Imaging

I'm trying to create a shader that looks like a sprectrum MRI scan. Essentially it has that Predator vision/ heat scan look. Anyone ever done...

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by adldesigner

12-09-2003|02:04 AM

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Rendering Problem

I have a scene with a mountan area and a sky.The sky was made from a jpg onto a sphere.So the mountain area sit's inside the sphere and when i...

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by foxhound

12-09-2003|01:29 AM

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Final Gather + White Enviroment = Angry Artist

I need to render a scene with a white background, unfortunatly setting camera enviroment to white has a reaction to FG in MR and make the object...

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by korben

10-09-2003|09:44 PM

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Light Radius

Hey guys, I have a little problem with my scene, I don't seem to find an option to limit a radius of a light. I am placing a point light and it...

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by gurt

09-09-2003|10:38 PM

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Maya Nizid Shader

hi guys, does anyone know how to make a Nizid shader in maya. its a shader which displays the normal information as a false colour map. its...

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by drknow

07-09-2003|04:42 PM

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non, linear, quadratic and cubic

And while we're on the questions of lighting - any way to calculate with a degree with accuracy how the lighting schemes work? I've put a point light...

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by TheGreenGiant

07-09-2003|03:40 PM

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MAYA light preivew in viewport not working

Hello. I'm having a bit of a problem here with maya lighting - thing is, once I put say more than 4-5 lights in a scene, the rest of the lights...

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by TheGreenGiant

07-09-2003|02:38 PM

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Flourescent Lights

What kind of lights would I use if I wanted to create a tube light (flourescent). Would I take maybe three point lights and space them out then add...

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by Russell

07-09-2003|03:22 AM

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Connecting shaders and projections

I'm texturing a model with multiple projections and a smooth proxy. Somewhere along the line I changed from one shader to another on a projection and...

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by ereitz

07-09-2003|02:35 AM

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Mental Ray Paint Effects

Can someone tell me why my paint effects dont show up when i do a mental ray render?? Maya 5.0 Win 2k

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by TheGreenGiant

06-09-2003|03:35 PM

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Background Environment

Okay, this is going to sound so newb-ish but I haven't had a need for this kind of info until now. Since I made the decision to start a new project...

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by Russell

05-09-2003|05:42 AM

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book : Learning Maya | Rendering

has anyone read this book? I hear its good. Does it cover the hypershade component in-depth? Thanks. Tom

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by carrot juice

04-09-2003|10:34 PM

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Light flickering problem

I've got a problem with flickering lights in an animation I rendered. I'm using one directional light to light up my scene with depth map shadows on...

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by polygon9000

04-09-2003|02:35 AM

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Shadow Lighting problem! HELP!

I have posted this problem on 2 other msg boards and no one has been able to help me. PROBLEM: I have a couple questions: First off, I am...

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by DDaudio19

04-09-2003|02:32 AM

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Rendering Scene Animation - Size?

Hello! I am planning to render a 200 frames long scene of my Stargate and wanted the video to be in a high resolution (1024*768)... See...

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by carrot juice

04-09-2003|02:04 AM

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very slow renders on fast computer

hi all, i just got a sony vaio that should rip through renders. but when i render either simple or complex scenes it is very slow, like a couple...

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by carrot juice

04-09-2003|01:53 AM

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reflection problems

I'm not done modeling yet, but I wanted to get my lighting set, so that I would know what areas would be washed out by the overexposed light. ...

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by jscheel

26-08-2003|04:09 PM

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Do I Need More Light? | Page: 1 2

Hey y'all! Okay, so I'm rendering this shot, right, and I notice a little snag... it's reeeeeeally dark. I kinda wanna keep the dark look...

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by Russell

26-08-2003|03:41 AM

Replies: 19

Rendering engines

Ok this has me perplexed. I have Maya 5.0 installed and been using it for a while now. Now at the start, Im sure I used a rendering engine (instead...

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