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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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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

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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