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HDRI | Page: 1 2

Well, I'll go make a very simple model in the next hours and I have decided that I want to use mental ray to illuminate the scene with a hdri image....

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by Jozvex

01-03-2003|04:27 AM

Replies: 17

Batch Render | Page: 1 2

I use batch render when I want to preview a rendered sequence of my animation. This proceeding creates a sequence of a determinated number of frames...

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by Sky_Kisser

19-05-2003|03:31 PM

Replies: 17

Lighting a starfield | Page: 1 2

Anyone have any ideas on lighting for a space scene? I created a NURBS cube around the grid (a nurbs plane on top of the grid), deleted the front and...

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by NitroLiq

16-12-2002|11:58 PM

Replies: 16

strange artifacts when rendering with FG | Page: 1 2

Hello I'm getting this strange jaggies or whatever it is , when i render with FG including a incandesence Light dome. I'm used 1000 rays...

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by herr_klaus

01-10-2005|04:27 PM

Replies: 16

Where can you buy that mirrorball ?? | Page: 1 2

I want to get myself such a mirror ball, so I can take pictures for HDRi myself, but I can't find any info on where I get buy such a thing ..

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by sjurick

22-10-2004|05:42 PM

Replies: 16

Particle rendering | Page: 1 2

I have a seen in which I am using particles. I would very much like to batch render it but when I try nothing appears.- - I have a ...

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by alienscience

02-02-2005|02:12 AM

Replies: 16

HDR Glass tut and 3 Point light tut | Page: 1 2

Well I think this was a very informative tut Nilla, I learned quite a bit on how to create a good glass render.....I also have done the lighting tut...

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by bullet1968

04-03-2011|03:20 AM

Replies: 16

Natural Lighting Scene | Page: 1 2

Hello, I have created this scene in Maya and rendered in mental ray. aside from texturing, it needs work on the lights. I really want to emphasize...

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by eneuman

29-02-2012|10:40 PM

Replies: 16

Lighting..o-O | Page: 1 2

Hello everyone. This is my recent 3d still. Please give me your suggestion on lighting. Want to create a dramatic mood. Whatever you feel. ...

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by Dushyant

01-03-2012|01:39 PM

Replies: 16

error error error | Page: 1 2

when i clicked render button for rendering it show this error below.. // Error: (Mayatomr.Output) : failed during mental ray rendering: mental ray...

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by em raj

09-12-2016|04:20 PM

Replies: 16

Maya Vector Rendering - Major Problems with shading | Page: 1 2

Hi :) well, i tried the vector renderer in maya, fine results, as long as its only single-colored, more colors result in STRAANGE highligts. I...

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by Joff

08-10-2003|09:12 PM

Replies: 15

Batch render does not render | Page: 1 2

Hi, I got a big problem with the batch renderer. I have a scene and i can render single frames. When i choose frame 1-500 and want to batch redner...

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by mirek03

01-02-2007|12:30 AM

Replies: 15

Output not mathing the camera ... ??? | Page: 1 2

Hi I am trying to math a perspective to an image so I used Camera Prescale to adjust the perspective angle to an image but when I render it - the...

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by nirsul

21-05-2004|07:32 PM

Replies: 15

Must Use Maya Hardware Renderer for Particle Dynamics? | Page: 1 2

Hi there I'm trying to do some dynamics/particle instancing in Maya 2008 specifically making a snow blizzard / rainfall. I ran the animation and...

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by ezanih

19-01-2010|06:45 AM

Replies: 15

MR calculations based on distance from SSS object | Page: 1 2

I've got another annoying render problem. Doing some test renders, I realized that it takes some time for mental ray to do calculations before the...

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by Jay

02-05-2013|07:49 PM

Replies: 15

Global Illumination and lightning

I want to make some realistic renderings with GI but now i wonder how to set up for proper lightning. (yes i have tried) I want to use the...

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by undseth

30-09-2002|04:56 PM

Replies: 14

wireframe render

hye all i'd like to render an object in wireframe did you make it from the material like in max or is it on the objects attributes thxx:banghead:

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by subnurbs

21-01-2003|09:37 AM

Replies: 14

Mental Ray and Glow Effect

:banghead: Does anyone know how to make the glow effect on a shader work with MR? Does mental ray even support this effect. I.E. I have a model...

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by ade90054

13-11-2003|06:56 PM

Replies: 14

Batch Render Problem

Hi there, Im a bit new to Maya , im trying to render a small animation I did, when I do the batch Render and go to the script editor, all it says...

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by hurricane456

26-02-2005|09:36 PM

Replies: 14

Scene Size Causing Slow mental ray Render Times?

I've asked a lot of mental ray questions over the past few months but as of late, I'm wondering if I have a serious rendering problem that can only...

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by Alan

31-05-2004|01:44 PM

Replies: 14

creating Under Water dappled light effect???

Hi, I'm trying to think of a way to achieve a moving 'dappled' (think thats the right phrase) light effect. The kind of thing you see used when...

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by le_geo

28-01-2005|04:33 PM

Replies: 14

hdri issues

I´m probably doing something wrong. everytime I use hdri with mental ray and FG the rendered scene gets colored by the hdrifile color pretty hard. I...

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by Falott

29-11-2006|02:53 PM

Replies: 14

Zbrush 3.5 r3 to maya 2009 problem

Hi all This one has been a pain for the life of me I cannot get the detail to render in mental ray, I have done most of the things you would...

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by daverave

08-06-2010|07:06 PM

Replies: 14

Stuck maya texture ??!

Hello. I have model, And I want to make some of the texture elements appear on it. (transparency, alpha channel or how you call it..) In...

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by daverave

24-11-2012|09:29 AM

Replies: 14

Snowflake Tute Rendering Error

I've done the snow tute, I quite liked my result when I hit play within Maya but I can't get it to batch render (can render a single frame)... after...

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by bullet1968

23-12-2010|01:14 AM

Replies: 14