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In this start to finish texturing project within Substance Painter we cover all the techniques you need to texture the robot character.

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Disable statistics window when rendering?

Whenever I am rendering with Maya or MR, there is a window (Output window) that pops up with various messages (with MR it nearly always pops up with...

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by BeAstMaSter

20-06-2011|07:27 PM

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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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Disappearing Hair??

Hi everyone. I have a character that is modelled and textured with paint effects hair that initially rendered quite well. Unfortunately, when I...

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by skyzeyez

23-11-2002|04:01 PM

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disappearing reflections

I was wondering if anyone could help with a problem I am having rendering. The scene has fire reflected off of a shiny black surface. The camera is...

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by roxypeocorno

07-02-2007|02:51 AM

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DISP 0.1 error 211079 while AO Baking

Hey, im kind of an "Maya-Newbie", im usin it just for AO Baking models built in AC3D. So im not really in it. Im using Maya 2011 and Mental Ray,...

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by MisterF0XX

22-12-2015|10:08 PM

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Displacement map artifacts

I am somewhat new to fully understanding displacement maps, but it mostly seems to be going fine except for this: In mudbox I've sculpted a head...

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by daverave

21-09-2012|11:45 AM

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Displacement map not rendering

Hi, So, i've modeled one car with NURBs, and used a displacement map for the tires, they worked preety fine. But then, to make the logo, i...

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by BaalRoi

08-03-2012|02:49 AM

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Displacement map, Bump Map Problem | Page: 1 2

When i assign a bump map to my model after I set my approx node and displacement map, I get a strange result. My UV's are set correctly and ive...

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by iron_tick

12-09-2006|09:13 AM

Replies: 18

Displacement problem

I made a displacement map for my model using Zbrush. It's a 16 bit Tiff file. I set up everything in Maya as per the instructions but when I try...

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by vladimirjp

31-01-2006|02:15 PM

Replies: 5

displacement sample rates for mr 1.5

I'm having troubles finding where I set the sampling rates for displacement maps when I'm using mental ray for rendering. I'm using maya 4.5. ...

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by JasonA

14-11-2003|12:11 AM

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Displacement_Map_Render

Hello, I am getting a strange result when plugging*in a Displacement Map(from Mudbox) into a Mental Ray Mia material.*The render show the geometry...

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by Bcurless

11-03-2017|07:10 PM

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distributed rendering problem

I'm not much of a network guy so when I tried to set up maya 7 to network render with mental ray stand alone 3.4.5 I couldn't get it to work. I...

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by Velusion

17-11-2005|01:18 PM

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Dividing by regions &loosing ray-trace!

get a scriptt wich allows to render,different regions with Maya renderer: global proc get_RenderRegions( int $x_res, int $y_res, int...

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by filou

17-06-2003|05:05 AM

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Dmap bias not being accurate(?)

Working on lighting some big things and have discovered some odd renders when my depth mapped spotlight goes too far away from the geometry. I've...

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by PacManiac

13-01-2005|02:56 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

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Do you think I'll be needing to do some light linking?

Hey there all, Just wondering if you think I will be needing to do some light linking in this scene? Previously I had posted my question in the...

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by junkyBob

24-03-2005|03:53 PM

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Does anyone know how to render with command prompt?

Hi, The presets in the render layer didn't work in heavy scenes, so I manually turned off "emit spec" and shadows in all lights, then I went...

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by bendingiscool

28-08-2008|10:48 PM

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Don't laugh too hard...

I have a REALLY STUPID QUESTION! you will laugh so hard. but hopefully you will give me a hand as a final benevolent act before you die of...

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by carrot juice

17-08-2003|05:41 PM

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duplicating a camera

I need to create another camera in the same place as my perspective camera. Does anyone know how I might go about this. Cheers, Leon

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by Rank_zz

03-09-2007|11:17 PM

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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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embedded motionblur vectors

Hi, Can anyone tell me how I could use the embedded motion vectors in one sequence to blur a completely different sequence. Blur2d.exe...

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by Alan

20-02-2004|10:22 AM

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eMicroscope

http://smorigin.scm.cityu.edu.hk/intranet/easn/docs/HowTos/eMicroscope/index.html what would I have to do in order to use a file (displacement...

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by publicFunction

24-05-2006|11:54 PM

Replies: 2

empty surface?

hi, I was just trying to render a frame, with bump map, raytracing, and motion blur. it comes out fine, except there's no motion blur, and it gives...

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