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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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Workflow question ...

Currently I'm laying out UVs but have run across some questions about how to go about this best. First: I was wondering what people do with the...

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by daverave

10-05-2013|08:10 PM

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Mia_X Material Transparency problem

Hello all, I've a question about the transparency of the Mia_X Material. I have a couple of cans that I wanted to put some condensation on. The...

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by Calvin

10-05-2013|05:23 AM

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Translucence ...

Is there any way to get the "Translucence" of a mia_material into a Layered Shader. I've tried to connect the mia_material to a Surface Shader, and...

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by Gen

10-05-2013|12:07 AM

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render reflection plane is visible

i am trying to do a render pass for my cg character. one for shadows and one for reflection so i would be able to compose it in nuke. i created a...

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by gubar

09-05-2013|05:17 PM

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Lighting in Maya vs Lighting in Flame

I am not a Maya artist. I am debating a flame artist about a current job. Maya is taking 15-20 min/frame to render, and the exr files are then...

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by oldsmoker

07-05-2013|04:26 AM

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mia_exposure_photographic

Hi guys, im really desperate first question does the attached image look realistic?, secondly how do i get raid of the circular spots?, im using...

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by Gen

03-05-2013|08:08 PM

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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

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Black exr files in AE and PS

I rendered out openEXR files with passes associated. I get MasterBeauty and also refl refr diff etc. There doesn't seem to be any passes within the...

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by stwert

27-04-2013|02:42 PM

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Relationship between mia_photographic and Sky Portal

Hi guys, I´d like to understand the relationship between the attribute "Cm 2 Factor" inside mia_photographic_exposure and the intensity of a...

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by LeandroOliveira

26-04-2013|12:15 PM

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batch render wont render animation

hey and thanks in advance :) so im not an expert in maya but i can get my way around, ive reached a problem where the batch render wont render an...

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by stwert

25-04-2013|12:36 PM

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Camera background color when rendering

Camera background color when rendering So I was following this tutorial...

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by MikkelSL

25-04-2013|11:03 AM

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mib_color_mix problem rendering diffuse and indirect.

Hi guys, I'm really stuck with my project because of rendering issue. It seems like I can't get the diffuse and the indirect passes to render as...

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by tetragramaton

24-04-2013|10:00 AM

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Invisible Light?

Hey Guys! :) I have set up a user ibl env, backplate etc... Now i have the checkerboard as a ground and another plane for the shadows. I...

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by Philcc

23-04-2013|06:20 PM

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object 'visibility'

hi, Is it possible to render an object invisible, but still have it block out the view behind it. eg - a cat sat on a door mat: you can't see the...

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by se7enhedd

22-04-2013|10:33 PM

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Final Gather vs mia_photometric_light

Hy everyone, I´ve got an issue using FG and mia_photometric_light. I have a simple scene: a room with some office furniture. The Physical Sun and...

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by LeandroOliveira

22-04-2013|03:32 PM

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Multiple HDRI lighting

Hi, I have setup an environment image based lighting with an hdri image. As the image shows, the whole mesh reflects as I'm using a Binn M. So...

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by cgisoul

21-04-2013|05:09 PM

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light / reflection seems to be cut off along the edge

I am not sure why after merging the vertices as shown circled in orange, the light / reflection seems to be cut off along the edge. Why does that...

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by cgisoul

18-04-2013|05:47 PM

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Problems Rendering Volume Lights in Mental Ray

I created a small volume light shining inward to provide a low-visibility view on a character traveling through a cave, but whenever I try to render...

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by Connor Lee

16-04-2013|02:43 PM

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cameraExposure affects mip_cameramapIMAGE

Unfortunately an exposureNode always affects the image in mip_cameramap node - which is kind of stupid, because if one needs to tweak the light and...

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by Falott

16-04-2013|08:32 AM

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Imported objects don't appear in shaded mode

I'm having a problem with some geometry imported from 3dmax into maya. The 3dmax project was exported as a FXB file and opened in maya. The...

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by David

08-04-2013|02:01 PM

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It works in Render View but in Batch Rendering

Im trying to render out a scene. To get the camera in a good spot I turned visibility off on a wall (during rendering) and kept the rest of the hall...

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by DJWright90

08-04-2013|01:44 PM

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Scanline v. Raytrace

so I've got a buddy who uses scanline to render out his images instead of raytrace, was wondering if there's anyone else who swears by scanline...

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