Lighting & Rendering - Page 58 - Simply Maya User Community

Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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Can't get multiple fog lights to work.

NOTE - this used to be a topic for fog lights, but I figured the problem out myself. To save space, I'm just going to use this thread for my next...

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by Nem

07-01-2003|01:36 AM

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Avi as texture error

From what i understand, maya takes avi's as a valid texture imput. but, i havent been able to get it to take an avi or any other movie for that fact,...

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by mtmckinley

06-01-2003|03:40 AM

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Creating an Avi file..

I don't know how to create a video file from maya..please can you tell me how?

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by NitroLiq

05-01-2003|12:25 AM

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maya2psd

hye just little question but not least how can i render an image and obtain a psd file wich different layers for my objects or channel did i...

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by popolovitch

04-01-2003|11:56 AM

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MentalRay question?

Hi everyone, happy new year:) I've been reading a few of the posts here regarding mentalray as an excellent alternative to maya's native renderer....

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by Darkon

02-01-2003|04:19 AM

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RenderMan 4.5 on Maya 4.5

Is there a way to make Pixar RenderMan Artist Tools 4.5 work in Maya 4.5 ??

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by Tolerate

01-01-2003|01:44 PM

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Camera - Matrix

Have you seen movement of the camera on matrix? it goes on a circle around the object but goes down and the up while doing that circle movement.I've...

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by ragecgi

30-12-2002|04:43 PM

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Transparent objects and spotlight fog.

I made a transparent object (tried phong and blinn) and placed a spotlight w/fog behind it. However, the fog only exists until it hits the...

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by StoopidDonky

29-12-2002|08:12 PM

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point light?

Hi, I've been trying to model this room with ONE lamp in its corner lighting up the whole room. I used a point light since it semed like the...

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by Darkon

28-12-2002|11:24 PM

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Poll: Favourite Renderer?

:argue: <B>Whats your favourite renderer? </b> What renderer do you use, and why that? Which do you think is the best? Renderman, Mental...

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by pitbull

20-12-2002|10:43 PM

Replies: 13

Rendering Wireframes?

is it possible to render lit wireframes in maya? i know 3d studio max had a function to do that but i have yet to find any thing close in...

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by brinkoo7

19-12-2002|07:02 PM

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how big is the dl of mental ray?

well,how big is mr if i downloaded it?im on a slooow connection btw.....both the beta and the final versions

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by pitbull

18-12-2002|04:00 PM

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hdri

Hello, Why MentalRay 1.5 public beta dosn't render HDR maps (its *.map file). In earlier version everithing was fine.:banghead: thanks

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by Efrens

17-12-2002|03:21 PM

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Point light with optical effects help!!

Hi Maya doods/doodettes, I'm trying to achieve a 'Mother Earth' scene with Maya, ya know, the Sun crescent ascending over the horizon (kinda...

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by Aphex

17-12-2002|01:25 AM

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Lighting a starfield | Page: 1 2

Anyone have any ideas on lighting for a space scene? I created a NURBS cube around the grid (a nurbs plane on top of the grid), deleted the front and...

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by NitroLiq

16-12-2002|11:58 PM

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How do I render with transparency

Okay, in the attached image you see two aircrafts I made. There are two nurbs plane for the background images, one behind the airplanes and the...

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by iron_tick

16-12-2002|09:27 PM

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Lighting, shadows& some other stuff

First, hello all ;) New here... I'm having a hard time understanding some weird things that happen around maya 4 and mental ray 3.0 (i guess)....

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by brunner

16-12-2002|01:21 AM

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Shake Problems!!

Hey Peeps!! I am having a brainfart on making an AVI file out of an animation from TGA's using Shake 2.3 in Windows 2000. Can anyone help? ...

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by Kurt

16-12-2002|01:12 AM

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Anyone familar with Frame Booster by Lightstorm 3D

Hi Everyone, I am really interested in figuring out this Frame Booster script that allows you to render from multiple machines at once but I am...

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by Roman

14-12-2002|05:08 PM

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Final render

I'm sure this is a really basic guestion, but when you have your final render of an animation, in say jpeg format what do you do to get them into a...

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by Emo

11-12-2002|10:55 PM

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New to Maya, creating glass..

Hi everyone, I am new to Maya, however i think i am in a gooooooood way.. I've created a glass in maya using polygon cube,blinn,transperasy and...

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by AbsolutelyWhite

07-12-2002|01:07 PM

Replies: 5

Camera can't zoom

This is really simple to fix I'm sure, but I'm a beginner. I'm trying to zoom into an object I created and the camera is cutting away at the object....

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by castalia215

05-12-2002|01:28 AM

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Lights on...Light off

Can someone tell me how to animate a light turning on and off?? seems stupid i know, but all ive learned is how to 'key' motion not how to key...

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