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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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compositing

ello, anyone know of a good tutorial on compositing using maya and photoshop?

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by ragecgi

19-03-2003|11:04 PM

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Need Help

Is there anyway to make an object with a shatter effect not fall apart as it is falling through the air? I currently have the shatter attribute...

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by Noradul

15-03-2005|09:30 PM

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Instancer Color Varieties

Hi All, I m creating a particle instancer with a leaves (modelled from nurbs) as the objects. Everything is going fine. But I don't know how to make...

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by antiant

01-10-2007|04:28 AM

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Soft and Rigid bodies

Hey How do I make a soft body collide with a passive rigid body. It works fine if they are both rigid bodies? Thanks

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by Mr_Ridd

23-08-2004|08:39 AM

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info about tutorials

I AM NEW TO MAYA AND INTERESTED IN VISUAL EFFECTS OF FILM, CAN ANYBODY GUIDE ME, WHERE CAN I GET THAT INFORMATION, RELATED TUTORIALS OF VFX.

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by metalrahul

19-04-2006|06:24 AM

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Shattering Glass

the scene is a computer monitor whose glass pane gets blown outwards due to an explosion that occurs inside the actual monitor... ...i've gone...

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by graphik

08-04-2005|06:47 PM

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Godess effect?

Hey I am attempting to recreate the goddess creation of Hyrule from the zelda64 game. I have modeled the goddess but can’t seem to get her outer ring...

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by Dann

08-10-2003|09:46 PM

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Ocean

Hello, So I have a softbody and then a boat. I have the boat animated going across the plane. I want the boat to "push" the water away from...

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by ragecgi

25-03-2003|12:11 AM

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creating fields

whenever I create a field it seems to be that this field is working or not by chance. I first create a volume axis. it is working but the effect...

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by Falott

10-01-2006|09:13 PM

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how to get aimdirection to work for particles on a polyplane.

I have created a polyplane, an emitter than emits an equal number of particles to the number of vertices on the polyplane, and I've made the...

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by Eurofiles

03-08-2006|04:30 AM

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wake help?

I'm trying to learn how to use wakes, and am having limited to no success. For one, it seems to make just a circular wake deformation, and it makes...

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by Dann

14-01-2004|01:24 AM

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closed thread

This link is already in our tutorial database

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by ezysk

12-08-2003|01:46 PM

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Saving cloth caches

Yesterday I saved the cache for my cloth using the default name. When I tried to load it today, I couldn't find it in my data file, which is where my...

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by Alan

23-02-2006|09:54 AM

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rendering particles

I've red that you have to use hardware render to render out particles and then composite in ex. AE. But what if I want to do particles that reflects...

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by stenson

15-10-2007|04:26 AM

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Changing particle chache startingtime?

Hi I cached some particles to disk. I was wondering if I can change the staringtime for the disk cache playback? What I want to do is to take...

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by r303

08-04-2006|06:42 AM

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use prerecorded video in a maya scene

Hi I want to incorperate an existing llive action video in a maya scene, e.g. an open book where a movie is shown instead of text. Any ideas?...

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by iron_tick

08-11-2003|07:29 PM

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sphere-oid particle

I need to create a particle systme that takes a sphere-oid shape and extand as such. I've tried omni, volume, and surface from a NURNS sphere. None...

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by Dann

19-12-2003|03:17 AM

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anwar

how can i start this animation career i am new to this field and i choose VFX in maya.

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by publicFunction

01-01-2007|06:21 PM

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hairs disapear in render

hello I don't know if this has happend to anyone but I have created a hair system for a head it was working good in the begining (in the scnene and...

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by ronkhmps

13-05-2006|09:29 AM

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Cloth Challenge Aarrggghhhh

Well, I am buiding a fully dynamic tent. I got my poles all connected with dynamic ropes, springs and etc.. This tent will be covered with Maya...

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by ragecgi

08-11-2003|03:53 AM

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Goals

Does anyone know of a way to make non-particles, non-soft bodies behave like goals? Basically I want a camera to follow a locater like a goal...

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by Dann

16-08-2006|08:48 AM

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how to constrain particles to a Isoparm

ive seen it done before . but i dont remember how. they had this sink and a drop of water was falling from the edge. it was all made of NURBS and the...

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by pondo0

05-08-2006|02:48 PM

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Paint fx memory

I am using AMD 3000+ and 1GB ram but till visor is slow on my system some times. is there any way to add mopre memory to brushs in visor?

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by metalrahul

20-04-2006|08:04 AM