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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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Physical Sun and Sky Rendering Issue

First off, I'm not a pro at Maya. I can manage to create simple animations with keyframes. That being said, I recently discovered how to use Mental...

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by Zimonio

13-05-2015|11:11 PM

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RenderMan Archives and Particle Instancing

I have been exploring the capabilities of RenderMan for a few weeks now at the hand of the sample scenes available on the Pixar forum. Managed to...

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by PixalZA

28-04-2015|05:30 PM

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Maya Dropping Render Settings on Mac

Hi, I have a very strange problem with Maya losing all of its render settings when I re-open a scene file. Whenever I save out a file from Maya...

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by Chris Miller

14-04-2015|08:54 AM

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jaggy edges with misss fast skin shader in particular -antialiasing?

hi guys, my object has really jaggy edges in the highlights in the render, even when on high quality settings, I'm going round in circles trying...

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by nickynacky

10-04-2015|10:36 AM

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Texture help!

Hello everyone im new to maya and I've been desperately trying to get a similar metallic texture as one of the images below,what i am doing is using...

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by Gen

09-04-2015|05:48 AM

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Rendering a model with lights shining on it

Hi, I'm new to this site and this seemed the most relevant thread. I have a helicopter I'm rendering with MentalRay and it has a few lights...

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by hughmanshield

07-04-2015|01:56 PM

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Have object receive a shadow from one object but not another, same light source

Hi guys, I have a crowd in a stadium, and i'm using a shadow catcher on the stadium to collect the crowd shadows. The problem is. I have one...

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by dre4mer

24-03-2015|09:41 PM

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Maya and mental rays materials

Hello everyone, Is it possible to render material with "Substance" with mental ray? Im able to render this material only with maya renders. ...

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by Trim0

14-03-2015|06:24 PM

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Can't get the render smooth

I'll say right now, this is the second day i use maya, i tried to get a smooth render, but just can't get it EDIT: I use visual ray for the render...

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by Gen

05-03-2015|09:57 PM

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glass and shadows problem

I've been having some issues with lighting a large scene I'm working on so I decided to make a small "lighting model" and work it out there. ...

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by Gen

05-03-2015|08:55 AM

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Bright outline on objects rendered

Hello, I have a question about rendering objects in Maya, for compositing in After FX. I'm in Maya 2013, using Vray to render, working on a scene...

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by Turboyac

19-02-2015|06:40 AM

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My Batch Render takes very long time

Hello My Batch Render takes very long time. I make an animation and it has 13300 frames. (for 24fps it's 9.2 minute) I want to make it a movie...

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by Gen

12-02-2015|01:44 PM

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Render passes overexposed after Linear Dodge

For whatever reason, I can never mange to get the advertised render passes: Diffuse + Indirect + Specular + Reflection + Refraction + Incandescent +...

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by stwert

12-02-2015|02:51 AM

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Easiest way to render just an alpha channel?

Hello, I'm using mentalray and I select under framebuffer a filetype which is just an alpha but it's like Maya ignores my command and apparently...

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by Tausendberg

09-02-2015|09:41 AM

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Maya Fluids not rendering behind transparent Mia Material

Can anyone point me to the setting that will allow fluids to be rendered behind transparent Mia materials. I'm trying to get clouds to render behind...

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by LauriePriest

31-01-2015|10:25 AM

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Lightbox with Logo

Hello, Im not really a pro using maya so I have some questions. I am trying to achieve a lightbox with a logo texture on it with a logo that would...

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by stwert

23-01-2015|02:13 PM

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Physical Sun and Sky, background, transparency

Hi, I am working in an architectural interior visualization where I have a window I look through into a exterior landscape. 1.I have created...

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by Gen

24-12-2014|05:56 AM

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Baking Orthogonal Reflections Issue

When baking to texture using a blinn, I can't seem to get different results with and without orthogonal reflections turned on. No matter if it's on...

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by Krazypoe

10-12-2014|10:20 PM

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Texture Rendering Problems

Hello all. I'm following a basic tutorial on modeling, texturing and lighting a living room in maya 2013 for mac. Everything's gone well until now: I...

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by Gen

10-12-2014|01:16 AM

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Mental ray question

hello all , im pretty new to maya , i've made a model , add many material on it but i wonder if they are no way to snap my mat on model to a texture...

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by ralrigs

09-12-2014|04:06 AM

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Batch bake crashing when optimised for single object...

I have a strange issue with maya crashing out when doing a batch bake using 'Bake optimization: Single object'. The strange thing is that it...

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by Yonderboy

08-12-2014|11:01 PM