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Connecting shaders and projections

I'm texturing a model with multiple projections and a smooth proxy. Somewhere along the line I changed from one shader to another on a projection and...

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by ereitz

07-09-2003|02:35 AM

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Flourescent Lights

What kind of lights would I use if I wanted to create a tube light (flourescent). Would I take maybe three point lights and space them out then add...

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by Russell

07-09-2003|03:22 AM

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MAYA light preivew in viewport not working

Hello. I'm having a bit of a problem here with maya lighting - thing is, once I put say more than 4-5 lights in a scene, the rest of the lights...

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by TheGreenGiant

07-09-2003|02:38 PM

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non, linear, quadratic and cubic

And while we're on the questions of lighting - any way to calculate with a degree with accuracy how the lighting schemes work? I've put a point light...

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by TheGreenGiant

07-09-2003|03:40 PM

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Maya Nizid Shader

hi guys, does anyone know how to make a Nizid shader in maya. its a shader which displays the normal information as a false colour map. its...

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by drknow

07-09-2003|04:42 PM

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Light Radius

Hey guys, I have a little problem with my scene, I don't seem to find an option to limit a radius of a light. I am placing a point light and it...

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by gurt

09-09-2003|10:38 PM

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Final Gather + White Enviroment = Angry Artist

I need to render a scene with a white background, unfortunatly setting camera enviroment to white has a reaction to FG in MR and make the object...

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by korben

10-09-2003|09:44 PM

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Rendering Problem

I have a scene with a mountan area and a sky.The sky was made from a jpg onto a sphere.So the mountain area sit's inside the sphere and when i...

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by foxhound

12-09-2003|01:29 AM

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Medical Imaging

I'm trying to create a shader that looks like a sprectrum MRI scan. Essentially it has that Predator vision/ heat scan look. Anyone ever done...

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by adldesigner

12-09-2003|02:04 AM

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someone uses mrstdalone v3.1??

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by gorjie

12-09-2003|05:27 PM

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How Do I Use A Volume Light?! :/

Okay, maybe this is a question for the newbie forum but I was wondering... how on earth do you use the volume light? Can it be used in clylindrical...

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by Russell

13-09-2003|11:20 PM

Replies: 7

Newbie Rendering Question

Hey Everyone, First off, I'm an admitted newbie with MAYA, but I'm learning. I'm think I'm trying something simple. I have imported one of...

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by clebo99

14-09-2003|01:10 PM

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Final Gather + File Texture

That´s the massage that apperas if I try to render my scene with Final Gather. :mad: Any idea how to fix that?

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by Bryce

15-09-2003|11:25 AM

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while rendering....

while rendering a frame.. is there a way to find out how long the frame took to render. I have my output dialog box open, but it says total...

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by Darkware

16-09-2003|05:41 AM

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Volume lighting and transparency

A tricky scenario here. If somebody knows a solution or a workaround, it would definitely make my week! Scene: Night, inside a dusty old room...

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by robchis

16-09-2003|08:42 AM

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how to convert a selected subregions to a .mi file

i have a script within maya,which allows to render sub regions within,mayarenderer; which works fine, as long as ther's no gi ,nor fg or caustics...

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by gorjie

16-09-2003|10:17 AM

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self-shadowing-reflection problem

OK.. i have this irregular self-shadowing reflection problem. I do know about about the lighting self-shadowing problem, but this is a bit...

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by strytus

17-09-2003|03:18 AM

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Another Newbie Rendering Question

Hey Again Everyone, Ok, so I successfully rendered an ocean scene with words rising up from the sea with the help of some people on this board. ...

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by clebo99

17-09-2003|11:57 PM

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maya vector: flickering

hi there this is my setup. fill : gradient fill edge : 1pt simple material on all of the objects. no speculars, refections and stuff. shadows...

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by vertiis

18-09-2003|12:31 PM

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Underwater/Snell's window

Hey guys, I've been researching ocean sample files and reading all over about how to do light rays, caustics, and all that but I'm stuck on...

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by NitroLiq

26-09-2003|04:16 AM

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Importing camera to After Effects

I've rendered a scene as tiff sequence with my camera is still,and composed the sequence in AE. What should I do if i want to move my camera during...

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by 8Picasso

28-09-2003|12:46 PM

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mental ray does not support SDS?

is that true? because when i render out my scene i cant see my sds object :( please, tell me im wrong!!! v :\

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by vertiis

30-09-2003|01:19 PM