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Paint effect not showing through glass in render

When I render my scene, the grass that I drew with Paint Effects does not appear through a "glass shader" that I created (Transparency set to white)....

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by ragecgi

16-08-2003|06:01 AM

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Paint Effects - Lightning

I'm having trouble controlling this paint effect the way I'd like to. I would like to make the lightning arch between 2 or more objects. Meaning...

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by ragecgi

06-05-2008|01:13 PM

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Paint effects and Mental Ray

I noticed I can't render paint effects with Mental Ray (am I wrong?) I figured out a simple solution: to convert the paint effects into a poly...

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by edoplaza

07-01-2006|01:03 AM

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Paint Effects and Mental Ray

Okay, I've set up my scene much the way I want it, and I've been using Mental Ray. I want to stick with MR, because I'm using the MR sky/sun and...

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by INOX

17-01-2008|10:59 AM

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paint effects attributes (after the stroke)

hi, I'm trying some basic paint effects. Just to grab a few leaves and twigs for a render. I've selected the stroke node (not the curve or the...

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by se7enhedd

17-01-2013|04:08 PM

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Paint effects hair (again...)

Hey All, I'm having trouble with paint effects. I've been trying several methods and every time it comes to attaching the stroke to the path...

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by CGWolfgang

24-10-2009|10:50 PM

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Paint Effects Not Animating

I have drawn some trees and grasses with paint effects and set the turbulence to make them animate. Till now they were animating when I selected...

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by sunveer

29-04-2013|01:05 PM

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paint effects problem

hi all.. i've got a problem because after drawing many beautiful flowers.. and so on.. i put an object in front of it and test rendered it ...

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by tinokl

01-11-2004|12:38 PM

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paint effects...

...or how to get rid of them. I sometimes press '8' by mistake (aiming for F8) and end up in the paint effects bit (as far as I understand it). I...

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by se7enhedd

04-12-2010|04:59 PM

Replies: 4

paint f/x

hi, is there any way to modify the bubble paint brush so that the bubbles flow from the surface angle and not always flow straight up because of the...

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by Hidalgo

08-03-2003|05:23 PM

Replies: 3

Paint FX for low poly trees?

hm, I was wondering if i can use paintFX for 5,6k polys trees? Just instead if having really high res branches, I'd rether put my own, low poly...

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by Jay

09-04-2007|07:13 PM

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Paint FX problem

I'm using tomcat cartoon shader to get a hand-drawn look for some models. I'm using the "noise" function under tubes and repeating a cycle of ten...

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by alpaint

31-05-2004|10:04 AM

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Paint grass on surface

Hey guys, wheres the option where you can paint grass on a specific surface? i cant seem to find it again ... Thanks again,

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by jsprogg

26-10-2007|01:19 AM

Replies: 6

Paint poly tree

Hi there, Can anyone tell me how to paint my poly pine tree on to the ground staying in the vertical direction I can do this simply with a default...

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by roach105

30-04-2004|05:12 PM

Replies: 1

Paint Program

I am learning Maya with Gonomon DVDs, and many questions I need answered are not addressed. I bought several books on Maya, but none of them are very...

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by mtmckinley

14-01-2004|01:54 AM

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paint scripts tool

Hi all. Trying to get the paint script working but i keep getting this error // Error: Cannot find procedure "userPaintCtx". // the script is...

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by bendingiscool

03-06-2008|08:23 PM

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Paint skin weight problem

Hi again, I'm following one of the maya online tutorials about modifiying skin weights and it tells me that I have to brush areas that I dont want to...

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by juice690

21-08-2003|03:09 PM

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Paint Skin weight tool problem

OK i've made a skeleton for my marvin hero but now i have problem with influence of the bones... Is there another way of setting influence ? Or any...

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by elephantinc

24-03-2009|06:31 PM

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Paint Skin Weight Tools Problem (Dots/Spots)

Hi. Newbie here. I'm doing a final project for my animation class and I'm having this trouble on painting my mesh (photo attached). I don't know...

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by nobalister

12-10-2016|02:55 PM

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Paint Skin Weights Always Adds

I'm trying to remove some of the influence of joints on certain areas on my skin which I did a Smooth Bind on. I thought that choosing replace and...

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by darksushi89

02-02-2013|10:27 PM

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Paint Skin Weights tool

Hi Guys I am almost lost in this tool and was wondering if someone can tell me an easier way to use this. I am modeling a face for expressions and...

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by gputhige

18-08-2008|08:51 PM

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Paint Skin Weights Tool Problem

I'm having a problem with the paint weights tool. I select the character mesh, and go into the tool, but none of the joints come up and the mesh...

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by Pentivar

27-09-2009|07:34 PM

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Paint Skin Weights Tool question...

Hey anyone, I have my rigging set up on my model and have skin binded the two, and now i am trying to use the paint skin weights tool, but when i...

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by Ataraxy

16-05-2010|01:49 AM

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Paint splatter effect

Hi, For the end credits of my movie, I want to have a foot stomp on a glue tube, and have the contents squirt out into letters... to for the...

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by Alan

15-04-2004|05:17 PM

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Paint Texture with "Repeat UV" on.

I have a simple ground with mountains and what I want to do is to paint it in some places but becouse my texture has a size of 512x512 and it had to...

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