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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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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

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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