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What Am I Missing?!!! Maya 6.5 Render

Hi all, As of late, I haven't gotten any responses to recent posts so I'll try again. I recently got my hands on Maya 6.5 and lemme tell ya,...

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by Russell

17-03-2005|10:06 PM

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What is Mental ray...exactyly??

Hi I am kinda new to the forum here, but I am an avid maya fan. I took one class on maya: (3d modeling and anim. 1) here at the academy of art in...

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by Jr.Who

18-09-2007|10:21 AM

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What is the best renderer?

What is the best renderer out of the ones you have to purchase? I assume it's Renderman since it costs the most, but what is your opinion? Renderman...

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by roach105

10-09-2004|12:50 PM

Replies: 7

What the hell????

Hi everyone, hope someone can help me out here as I'm really stuck: I'm trying to do a render with displacment, one computer renders my test image (...

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by ade90054

05-11-2003|01:30 PM

Replies: 7

whats g.i. joe?

i've seen the name a lot, but i cant really find anything in a search for it

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by donrodman3

12-12-2008|11:15 AM

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whats the equivalent of falloff map in maya?

whats the equivalent of falloff map in maya? need this for a jelly fish shader

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by marcury

05-06-2003|02:44 AM

Replies: 3

Where can you buy that mirrorball ?? | Page: 1 2

I want to get myself such a mirror ball, so I can take pictures for HDRi myself, but I can't find any info on where I get buy such a thing ..

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by sjurick

22-10-2004|05:42 PM

Replies: 16

Where's the knowledge?

I'm really making an effort to learn how to use Mental Rays shaders and utilities but I haven't found a single book that makes sense out of it. All...

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by Velusion

01-03-2006|04:51 PM

Replies: 2

which camera to use?

short version of my question: Which camera(or perspective view panel) in Maya most accurately represents how a human eye would see a scene? Ok, so...

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by BigRed60083

29-06-2005|12:46 AM

Replies: 0

Which Light?

What would be the best light to use for the light fixture I've made. I has openings at the top and bottom and I would like it to emit light from...

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by Joopson

28-05-2008|09:33 AM

Replies: 2

Which one is faster to render?

Hi guys, I am making a dragon coming out of the ground. I know my computer is slow...so I might render in the university's comps instead with...

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by Tolerate

09-03-2003|03:57 PM

Replies: 4

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

Replies: 4

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

White environment gives bright objects

Hey! When using white environment with objects (only uv and textures made using zbrush) and render out with just mental ray gives me very bright...

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by Jay

15-05-2010|10:39 AM

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why does the render look like this?

The edges on the model are all jagged why is this, please help me and tell me what iam doing wrong. PLEASE HELP!!!, THank You

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by Nem

01-08-2003|09:45 AM

Replies: 2

why is it...

hi there, we rendered a scene in different passes and composit it in DF, when we fcheck the images all is good but after the compositor put...

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by olivermagno

02-06-2003|02:50 PM

Replies: 6

Why is my file so wide?

Hi, This too is my last semester's work. I was rendering out the project in mini-dv size and in the end couldn't render out such huge size in...

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by mtmckinley

14-10-2002|03:41 PM

Replies: 1

Why is the color file not showing up in Hypershade?

Hi, Does anyone know how to solved this? The color portion of the main node in Mental ray is not showing. Attached is the file.

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by tvholicjames

24-07-2007|07:17 AM

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why the mirror can't reflect the glow?

http://www.philsky.net/fly/test.JPG why the mirror refuse the glow? which option I haven't check? please tell me. this is the file....

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by ragecgi

05-07-2003|05:15 PM

Replies: 3

Wierd material problem (black in render) | Page: 1 2

Hello everyone. I created a basic Creeper model (from the game Minecraft), and I'm experiencing a weird problem. When I look at the model in the...

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by Matan2013

27-01-2013|03:42 PM

Replies: 18

Wine Glass rendering issues in Mental Ray?

Hello. I'm trying to render a wine glass in Maya that I plan on exploding using Pulldownit and Realflow. I modeled the wine glass by using a...

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by Gen

03-06-2014|01:03 AM

Replies: 4

Wire frame rendering in vector

Hey guys whats the best way to render wire frames on top of the grey model? I can get something like what i want on vector but it shows the tris not...

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by strarup

21-01-2004|11:08 AM

Replies: 8

wireframe

hi guys how to render model in wireframe maya2011

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by daverave

22-08-2011|06:31 PM