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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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RGB information missing in Hardware batch renders

I don't know why this is suddenly happening... I've been hardware batch rendering a cloud of sprite particles that are given random RGB values via...

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by scentmental

14-05-2013|01:14 AM

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rice paper lantern lights

I have some lights that have a light within them, you can see them below, my question is how do I get the lights to shine thru the rice paper...

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by Alan

16-09-2004|08:56 AM

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rising damp/mould procedural

hi, I'm texturing some stone columns using procedurals - does anyone have any tips on how i could create random streaking or mould/stains creeping...

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by se7enhedd

02-04-2012|11:11 AM

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round corners

Are there some hidden docs on how to use this? There's a lot of talk, but no real explanation on how to use it. It took me 3 days just to find...

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by luke119

26-03-2007|09:32 PM

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sampler info node

Hi, I was just looking at shaders and messing around with them and I noticed that almost EVERY shading network has a sampler node's facing ratio...

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by Alan

10-03-2004|01:13 PM

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samplerinfo usded in reflection prob?

hi, i am attaching image of prob.....could someone plz . tell what is error.............cause if i apply env. ball in directly reflection then...

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by lalamax3d

25-05-2003|01:20 PM

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samplerinfo usded in reflection prob?

hi, if i put env. ball in reflected color slot , it works fine.....but i want surface to start reflecting gradually as it is becoming...

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by olivermagno

27-05-2003|01:49 AM

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saving render layers

I'm sure this is such a simple question it's bordering on dumb; so dumb it's not really covered anywhere.. I'm looking at render layers, I've got...

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by se7enhedd

18-05-2012|09:19 AM

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Saving transparencies

Hi guys, long time no see I'm having a problem getting maya to save transparencies in a targa when rendering, i've never had this problem and as...

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by Alan

29-12-2004|12:31 PM

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scale a hdri image?

http://i59.tinypic.com/14v1d76.png I want to scale my HDRI image bigger so that my tire can fit... I can't scale the tire down because it'll...

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by tweetytunes

12-03-2014|08:13 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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by NextDesign

08-04-2013|12:25 AM

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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

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Scene too far away from origin and cause render slow

Hey guys, My camera, characters and background is too far away from origin. It tooks double the time to render every shot. I only know create a...

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by BadBadtz-Maru

22-08-2016|07:16 AM

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Scene would not render correct anymore - Mental Ray

I have a scene that’s has rendered nice in v2010. But since I moved to v2012 all my materials are rendering black. I’ve relinked them, still no...

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by honestdom

17-01-2012|09:09 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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Sequencing Images??

I know this may sound a little newbie and I hate asking newbie questions, but when I render a sequence of frames (eg. Sphere.XXX.tga) I cannot get...

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by Aerlinger

26-05-2003|08:22 AM

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Service

I get an error when network rendering with Mental Ray. When it loads up my client PC the error reads... "mi-ray not a service. " Then leads me...

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by Stephen

09-07-2008|08:26 AM

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Settings to render a pic lik this

hey guys, wat settings u require to get a glow effect lik the one i have shown in the attached pic...... how much time require to render this... help

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by mastone

27-01-2009|08:11 PM

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shader swatches

Hi all! i downloaded a few shaders from highend to my \AliasWavefront\ShaderLibrary\shaders\Glass directory it works fine but it is not perfect...

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by subnurbs

03-02-2003|06:25 PM

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Shading based upon light direction?

Heya. In a nutshell, I need to be able to produce city lights on a dark side of a planet, simular to this:...

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by mirek03

26-03-2007|10:02 AM

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Shading Group Icon

What does the red X over the icon mean.

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by mtcgs

17-01-2008|06:26 PM

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Shadow and Zdepth pass

how to make a Shadow and Z Depth Pass in Maya Default render.

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by Dushyant

03-03-2012|05:05 PM

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Shadow contour

Hi everyone, is it possible to use shadows as countour for an object and set all the other lighted area to invisible(alpha) - like this picture...

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by daverave

05-12-2011|05:31 PM

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Shadow edges

I know this is prob. elementary to most people, but my shadow edges are noisy, not soft. Where is this controlled? Render settings? Light settings?...

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by wasatch5_sparticus

11-06-2007|04:24 PM

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Shadow Layer Problem

Hi all, I am currently practising render passes and layers and what-not. I created a seperate render layer which will only capture my shadows using...

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