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Render Artifacts

Hi, So i got this file back from office to work on and when i'm rendering it i'm getting this: http://i39.tinypic.com/35l90y9.png Can...

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by stwert

14-10-2013|01:37 AM

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mip_rayswitch transparency issue

Hi guys, I'm having some trouble. I'm using an mip_rayswitch to light my scene. Everything is fine except one thing. I'm not getting an alpha...

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by prat391

17-10-2013|09:04 AM

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Character's eyes stay black after baking

Hello ! I've searched alot but couldn't find a solution to my problem. When I do a render view of my character (maya 2014) it looks fine but as soon...

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by gubar

18-10-2013|02:09 PM

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Physical Sun&Sky

Morning, I did a render recently of a wall and sign graphic - I rendered with global illumination and an Hdri image. But the result was not that...

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by Sircharles

21-10-2013|09:47 AM

Replies: 2

Tile rendering

I have to render a large scene @ 25" square at 300 DPI which is causing crashes. I know there is a tile rendering technique that allows the render to...

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by TeddyG

21-10-2013|01:46 PM

Replies: 2

Renderlayers / contribution maps

Hi! I just watched the dark art of mental ray and i had some questions about it. Usually when i do a render i use the photographic lens and i gamma...

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by SwatSnipe

22-10-2013|03:42 PM

Replies: 3

Mentalray or v-ray

Hi! I have been using mental ray for some years now, but i have recently started making some arch/viz stuff. Which render is prefered? Is it easy to...

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by honestdom

24-10-2013|02:54 AM

Replies: 1

Dark Surfaces on Glass Material

Hi, I’m fairly new to maya and I’m having difficulty rendering a transparent object. Many surfaces of the material are very very dark in the render....

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by Gen

29-10-2013|11:53 PM

Replies: 6

Light passing through cube

Hey, I am trying to set up a scene where a Rubic's cube seem to emit the light. The thing is that I don't want the cube to be like a light bulb...

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by Gen

30-10-2013|11:28 PM

Replies: 4

Problem rendering my fish with V-Ray 2.0 in Maya 2013

Ok, so here is a pic, od my fish. It renders horribly in Mental Ray, and It needs to be turned in like yesterday, so I need to just use the V-ray I...

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by MrYeti

13-11-2013|08:22 PM

Replies: 2

Render reflections on transparent background?

Hello there. This is currently driving me nuts! I've check a zillion different guides / docs and tutorials but cannot find an answer...if anyone...

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by okhybrid

13-11-2013|11:26 PM

Replies: 0

Help!! Render still going after days!

Hi All, Hopefully one of the board gurus can give me some insight into a vexing issue. Anyhow, my render which is quite large 5k, single frame,...

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by benedictus38

17-11-2013|04:48 PM

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Rendering transparency problem

I'm working on a scene at the moment with a 3d model lit by a basic 3-point light setup. I need to have labels coming off of the model with...

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by Gen

18-11-2013|09:33 PM

Replies: 6

Export Mental Ray Mi Files Problem

Whenever I try to export geometry from Maya into a .mi file, the file exported is only a few hundred bytes in size and nothing appears when I render...

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by leonb2273

21-11-2013|12:08 PM

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Rendering Mesh doesn't match original.

Hi there! Its the first time I'm trying to export a render with the mesh on it. I got it working but the mesh lines are a lot closer together...

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by gubar

06-12-2013|01:34 PM

Replies: 12

Lighting from around a corner (MR)

Hey guys, I'm not so great at lighting, and though I've experimented a lot, I'm not having much luck with what I'm trying to achieve here.. I...

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by Gen

08-12-2013|02:00 AM

Replies: 1

intensity of the light based on its distance from mesh

hi, i need help with controlling the intensity of the light based on its distance from mesh a character is moving close to wall that contains...

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by jovstrel

08-12-2013|06:03 AM

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Weird Problem - Can't find the problem

Ok, this is a very weird situation. A 3d cloud like texture showed up during on of my renders on my lampshade, so I deleted the material and placed a...

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by MrBungle1

09-12-2013|03:23 PM

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Can't find default light set in Maya Outliner

I can't seem to find the default light/directional light anywhere in the outliner. What if while creating a playblast I want to see default light as...

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by sabretooth666

19-12-2013|06:19 AM

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Batch Render Not Rendering Environment

I'm trying to render a short video with Mental Ray. I've set up Physical Sun and Sky and it renders what it's supposed to look like with the render...

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by CollinBishop

31-12-2013|07:47 PM

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Custom plugin not rendering animation files in MentalRay

Hi everyone, Happy New Year! Sorry to be bugging all of you with a question on my first post. We have this custom MentalRay shader plugin from...

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