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V Ray | Page: 1 2 3

Hi excuse my ignorance, but I don't know much about V ray. Why is it good, and should I be using it instead of Mental Ray? Graham

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by honestdom

25-06-2012|08:35 AM

Replies: 43

Shadow Render Pass

Hey All! My project is to make a maya text on my table. I recorded it, tracked it, imported to maya...Working good. & now i am rendering 458...

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by Joey81

11-01-2011|05:00 PM

Replies: 6

Batch render issue

Hello people, So here I am with a whole new issue. Last week I was working as usual on my scene and wanted to batch render it. It didn't worked...

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by Fantilir

01-10-2013|02:05 AM

Replies: 3

Maya software renders are very grainy

Several years ago, I made an intro for my videos, that was kinda based on the 20th century fox intro. This was in Maya 2008, I think. Anyway, I...

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by KandaceVance

12-04-2022|05:34 AM

Replies: 7

How to stop an object receiving shadows

Hi everyone, How do I stop an object from receiving shadows? I know how to stop a light from causing shadows but not how to stop just one object...

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by Jay

09-02-2017|01:00 PM

Replies: 4

xGen animated mesh batch render problem

When i render still frame it is all good, but in batch render first two, three frames it sticks,then NOT to animated geometry. I exported patches for...

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by bwecko

05-04-2016|06:07 PM

Replies: 3

Grainy Renders

Hey all! I'm a new maya user (loving it!) and today I was following this tutorial,...

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by bppitt

27-04-2014|08:38 PM

Replies: 4

Clean mattes from object ID pass

As I understand it, creating a material or object ID pass is pretty common practice, using surface shaders with a single color (typically Red, Green,...

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by stwert

15-10-2015|08:20 PM

Replies: 7

Skin of Morpheus turning black after successfully rendering a frame

Hello everyone, I am running into a problem rendering a scene in Maya 2015 on Mac OS X 10.10. I have 2 characters with 4 lights, (3 directional...

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by dbdemille2

05-03-2018|04:52 PM

Replies: 1

Rendering a DX11 shader?

so the directx 11 shader looks pretty damn neat, I was just about to play around with this shader until i found out that i have no clue how to render...

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by Skalman

15-02-2014|09:03 PM

Replies: 6

glass | Page: 1 2

I want to assign a super-quick glass like material to face; to approximate a window. I selected the face assigned a blinn and turned the transparency...

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by Nilla

10-12-2010|02:27 AM

Replies: 18

Render>Image size: Settings do not match actual image proportions or resolution

Hello all! I am new to this forum so please go easy if this is a question you may have already come across which has already been answered,...

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by daverave

22-02-2013|09:03 AM

Replies: 1

Getting rid of hdr skydome in render via render setup?

I am getting up to speed on using the render setup in Maya with Arnold. I have been sorting geometry into different layers/groups. I am lighting the...

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by Jackkd88

03-09-2020|02:32 PM

Replies: 1

All Maya renderfarms list. Do you know any more?

Hi! We have collected all existing Maya renderfarms here: https://rentrender.com/maya-render-farms If you know any more, please, write it here....

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by JinaLu

23-10-2017|04:17 PM

Replies: 1

Render is wrong in Orthographic cam

Hi, I have an issue when rendering xgen hair in Arnold. I'm using the same AlHair shader on all strands. In perspective view, all strands...

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by David

30-05-2017|08:19 PM

Replies: 3

Vray camera tracking problem | Page: 1 2

I'm asking this on behalf of a friend who is trying some camera tracking tests in Maya with Vray. In short he imported his Syntheyes camera solve...

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by petersrin

08-10-2012|05:50 AM

Replies: 23

White background Render problem. Mental Ray Final Gather & HDRI light studio 2.0

Hi, I have been testing some render settings for final gather and HDRI image based lighting, to get a perfect result. I would like to use this setup...

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by daverave

03-11-2011|06:01 PM

Replies: 3

Help! My lights are going through objects!

hi,~ I've been trying to put a spot light and casting through objects, but somehow, even though I've turned on used depth map shaodws, the light...

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by yo1982

22-06-2003|11:04 AM

Replies: 11

Batch Render Issue

So I'm trying to batch render a few frames from a scene I'm working on, but I can't seem to get it to render. I get the "Rendering complete" message...

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by daverave

09-07-2011|09:48 PM

Replies: 4

Hide reflections from specific objects?!

Hello, I have a bottle standing on a reflective plane. I have several objects only visible in reflections that I want to be visible in the bottles...

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by Darkon

10-09-2002|09:11 PM