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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Okay,I have a workflow issue. I want to be able to access my camera's attributes just by clicking something in the frame, instead of going through...
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Hi guys, I've just rendered a character I've modeled in maya 4.5 unlimited using the maya software.I want to render it in mental ray but am having...
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Hiya, I've been trying to attach a ramp to a layered texture in Maya 2016 using mental ray, as default. This works wonderfully in 2015 but...
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hi, I'm trying to add a backlight glow behind a sign in a scene...so that it illuminates the wall its hanging on...whats the best way to do this?
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by Alan
19-02-2007|06:31 PM
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Hi All. So basically I plug in a displacement map into a shader, assign to object and when I go to render in mental ray production quality preset...
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Hello, I am rendering some paint FX vegetation and its corresponding shadows in a separate pass which I will later composite onto a background...
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by Alan
08-07-2005|08:48 AM
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Okay, here's a simple one. I just finished a tutorial in the Maya 4.5 Savvy Book and I am very impressed with the final results I ended up with. My...
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15-07-2003|03:51 AM
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Hi! When trying to use AiAreaLight (or any of the AI light options), I keep getting this error: // Error: file: C:/Program...
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For some reason when I select my rocket ship (following Mastering Maya Complete 2) and then shift+select my spot light and then choose...
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jheaven 13-02-2003|10:21 PM
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I just caught this on a great archviz site, some of you have most definitely seen it because it was posted up on vimeo two months ago, but I missed...
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Nilla 23-03-2011|10:10 PM
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Hello, As I am new to Maya I hope the following description of a problem I am having is coherent. I have a scene (Maya 2012) which contains an...
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Hi! We have collected all existing Maya renderfarms here: https://rentrender.com/maya-render-farms If you know any more, please, write it here....
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How can one turn the alpha channel on when rendering with mental ray, is it even possible?
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Is there a way to make maya render the image with no background? ive rendered fire for a picture but the glow is giving me a problem getting rif of...
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iron_tick 14-04-2003|06:16 AM
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The alpha channel of the SSS shader is black, so I need to make that color white in order to use alpha on my character and make a composition....
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Hi, This is my last semester's final project. Just needed an answer before I start rendering something else again. I rendered this file in...
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Hey, I'm new. I have a polygon plane with a image map shader on it. I saved the image uncompressed .tga with an alpha channel. I'm rendering...
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Hi, I just started playing around with Mental Ray Shaders, so this may be a basic question, but I can't seem to figure it out. I applied one of the...
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Calvin 11-07-2006|01:54 PM
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I am trying to render a scene and need it to clip out my characters in the alpha channel when they walk behind objects in the scene. I have been...
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is there any way for mental ray to generate seperated alpha maps? and save them as seperate files from the color map? (in other words, one set of...
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Hello everyone, I cannot find a solution to what seems to be a rather simple task. I want to render a png image with a background color but I cant...
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I have a plane in a scene textured with a texture containing an alpha channel (its basically an object on the middle of the plane, with a fully...
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by JimmyC
25-03-2004|10:39 PM
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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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Here is a link to a test video clip I rendered 1.45 meg quicktime I used a Maya blinn material along with the mental ray mib_amb_occ texture...
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how to i change the lighting direction for the ambient occlusion to match my scene lighting
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