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Hi excuse my ignorance, but I don't know much about V ray. Why is it good, and should I be using it instead of Mental Ray? Graham
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25-06-2012|08:35 AM
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Shadow Render Pass
Hey All! My project is to make a maya text on my table. I recorded it, tracked it, imported to maya...Working good. & now i am rendering 458...
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11-01-2011|05:00 PM
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Batch render issue
Hello people, So here I am with a whole new issue. Last week I was working as usual on my scene and wanted to batch render it. It didn't worked...
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01-10-2013|02:05 AM
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Maya software renders are very grainy
Several years ago, I made an intro for my videos, that was kinda based on the 20th century fox intro. This was in Maya 2008, I think. Anyway, I...
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12-04-2022|05:34 AM
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How to stop an object receiving shadows
Hi everyone, How do I stop an object from receiving shadows? I know how to stop a light from causing shadows but not how to stop just one object...
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09-02-2017|01:00 PM
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xGen animated mesh batch render problem
When i render still frame it is all good, but in batch render first two, three frames it sticks,then NOT to animated geometry. I exported patches for...
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05-04-2016|06:07 PM
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Grainy Renders
Hey all! I'm a new maya user (loving it!) and today I was following this tutorial,...
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27-04-2014|08:38 PM
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Clean mattes from object ID pass
As I understand it, creating a material or object ID pass is pretty common practice, using surface shaders with a single color (typically Red, Green,...
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15-10-2015|08:20 PM
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Skin of Morpheus turning black after successfully rendering a frame
Hello everyone, I am running into a problem rendering a scene in Maya 2015 on Mac OS X 10.10. I have 2 characters with 4 lights, (3 directional...
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05-03-2018|04:52 PM
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Rendering a DX11 shader?
so the directx 11 shader looks pretty damn neat, I was just about to play around with this shader until i found out that i have no clue how to render...
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15-02-2014|09:03 PM
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I want to assign a super-quick glass like material to face; to approximate a window. I selected the face assigned a blinn and turned the transparency...
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10-12-2010|02:27 AM
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Render>Image size: Settings do not match actual image proportions or resolution
Hello all! I am new to this forum so please go easy if this is a question you may have already come across which has already been answered,...
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22-02-2013|09:03 AM
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Getting rid of hdr skydome in render via render setup?
I am getting up to speed on using the render setup in Maya with Arnold. I have been sorting geometry into different layers/groups. I am lighting the...
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03-09-2020|02:32 PM
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All Maya renderfarms list. Do you know any more?
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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JinaLu
23-10-2017|04:17 PM
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Render is wrong in Orthographic cam
Hi, I have an issue when rendering xgen hair in Arnold. I'm using the same AlHair shader on all strands. In perspective view, all strands...
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30-05-2017|08:19 PM
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Vray camera tracking problem
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I'm asking this on behalf of a friend who is trying some camera tracking tests in Maya with Vray. In short he imported his Syntheyes camera solve...
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08-10-2012|05:50 AM
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White background Render problem. Mental Ray Final Gather & HDRI light studio 2.0
Hi, I have been testing some render settings for final gather and HDRI image based lighting, to get a perfect result. I would like to use this setup...
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03-11-2011|06:01 PM
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Help! My lights are going through objects!
hi,~ I've been trying to put a spot light and casting through objects, but somehow, even though I've turned on used depth map shaodws, the light...
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22-06-2003|11:04 AM
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Batch Render Issue
So I'm trying to batch render a few frames from a scene I'm working on, but I can't seem to get it to render. I get the "Rendering complete" message...
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09-07-2011|09:48 PM
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Hide reflections from specific objects?!
Hello, I have a bottle standing on a reflective plane. I have several objects only visible in reflections that I want to be visible in the bottles...
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10-09-2002|09:11 PM
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Bifrost Lava texturing?
Hello, does anyone know how to texture a Bifrost Mesh to look like Lava? Sim isn't an issue, its more of the look. I'm going for something like...
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Help in aheiving modern day 3D cartoon-like looks
Hello everyone, I don't know if crtoon-like should be description for it but, I’ve tried to achieve modern day 3D animation textures and color...
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20-08-2019|10:23 PM
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A list of Maya Renderfarms
Here is the list of all Maya renderfarms: https://rentrender.com/maya-render-farms/ Now there are 79 of them. Do you know any more?
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03-11-2017|10:27 PM
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Extremely confused, Batch rendering issue!
Well this one has stumped me 110%. I have 11 animated scenes, 10 of which rendered fine, it's just the final scene which is being a b****! I had a...
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Help with banding issue in fog...
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Hey guys I am wondering if anyone can assist... I am doing an underwater scene in Maya using Mental Ray with Maya's Physical (water) fog. I am...
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