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Hello to all. I am sorry that my first post for this great communitiy is a cry for help... but I desperately need some help. And sorry for my...

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by onemillionthanks

27-07-2018|07:31 AM

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Rendering engines

Ok this has me perplexed. I have Maya 5.0 installed and been using it for a while now. Now at the start, Im sure I used a rendering engine (instead...

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by [icarus_uk]

19-08-2003|02:03 PM

Replies: 3

Render wireframe on shaded

On simplylightwave.com is a tutorial on how to render a picture with the wireframe showing on shaded object. How do I get this effect in Maya? S.

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by Alan

20-12-2004|09:51 AM

Replies: 4

xGen & Mental Ray Issues

Hi guys, I was recently working on your tutorial “creating a pegasus using xgen” on digital tutors and ran into a few problems. Everything...

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by 3dArtist91

12-11-2014|08:26 AM

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Snowflake Tute Rendering Error

I've done the snow tute, I quite liked my result when I hit play within Maya but I can't get it to batch render (can render a single frame)... after...

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by bullet1968

23-12-2010|01:14 AM

Replies: 14

Importing camera to After Effects

I've rendered a scene as tiff sequence with my camera is still,and composed the sequence in AE. What should I do if i want to move my camera during...

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by 8Picasso

28-09-2003|12:46 PM

Replies: 5

Cartoon shading(Vector Render)

Well... I want to achive cartoon like shaded, animation.Can i use Vector shading in Maya and with wich settings?:confused: "The meaning of...

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by polygon9000

09-10-2003|04:47 PM

Replies: 1

Need some help with high contrast lighting

Hey everyone. I'm working on a project that needs a lighting scenario that's similar to the lighting that was used in the DLC for the video game...

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by daverave

20-03-2013|06:32 PM

Replies: 1

rendering hair with mental ray

Hi, can anyone please help me with rendering hair with mental ray? I am writing a hair shader for mental ray but since I'am pretty new to Maya, I...

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by dovina

03-10-2005|11:19 AM

Replies: 2

hardware render no texture

hi, I have a problems can anybody solve this: (1) how to get texture rendered in hardware render,in hardware render attributes I am keeping...

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by kbrown

09-09-2002|06:36 AM

Replies: 1

Mental ray crashes

why Mental ray crashes when rendering a heavy scene. I had a file in which I duplicated a detailed cartoony building 20 times and trying to render...

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by roach105

08-06-2004|03:26 PM

Replies: 1

New to Maya, creating glass..

Hi everyone, I am new to Maya, however i think i am in a gooooooood way.. I've created a glass in maya using polygon cube,blinn,transperasy and...

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by AbsolutelyWhite

07-12-2002|01:07 PM

Replies: 5

Camera - Matrix

Have you seen movement of the camera on matrix? it goes on a circle around the object but goes down and the up while doing that circle movement.I've...

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by ragecgi

30-12-2002|04:43 PM

Replies: 8

Creating an Avi file..

I don't know how to create a video file from maya..please can you tell me how?

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by NitroLiq

05-01-2003|12:25 AM

Replies: 8

Rendering -Alpha Channel and Adobe After Effects!

I have a strange problem! I render an image from Maya, with checked Alpha Channel,save it as tga (for having the alpha), and when i open it in Adobe...

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by ragecgi

20-05-2003|06:55 PM

Replies: 5

mental ray aborting?

so i've been using mental ray a lil lately and set up global illum in a scene i built, it was working fine getting good renders. last night i was...

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by Jay

27-02-2008|04:46 AM

Replies: 2

help rendering for still composite

ok so i have a scene with a car model, a curved plane for the floor/backwall, and a sphere with a HDR image on it for lighting and such, i'm trying...

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by NeoStrider

08-05-2008|08:20 AM

Replies: 7

MentalRay question?

Hi everyone, happy new year:) I've been reading a few of the posts here regarding mentalray as an excellent alternative to maya's native renderer....

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by Darkon

02-01-2003|04:19 AM

Replies: 1

Fresnel falloff?

Hi, does anybody know how to create a fresnel falloff for use on reflection in maya, I know how to achieve this effect in Max but can't seem to find...

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by Andy Gee

29-11-2007|12:11 PM

Replies: 4

nurbs?

I've just tried to render out a scene with mental ray that I created, the objects in the scene are nurbs. Through maya's renderer they appear nice...

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by dexter10

04-04-2003|05:46 AM

Replies: 3

BMWTest

Hello everyone, I've just been messin around with mentalray, was just wondering if anybody knows why i'm getting some odd lighting on the top of...

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by ade90054

17-05-2003|12:58 PM

Replies: 2

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

New scene

Hi all, Have finally finished my current uni project and have decided to spend a little time learning mentalray, theres still some tweaking to be...

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by deepakrock627

02-03-2004|06:56 AM