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creating Under Water dappled light effect???

Hi, I'm trying to think of a way to achieve a moving 'dappled' (think thats the right phrase) light effect. The kind of thing you see used when...

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by le_geo

28-01-2005|04:33 PM

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Premiere can't see my .tiff's

Hi guys I know this isn't really a rendering question but it's still a major obstacle to my new showreel. I have rendered out some .tiff's ...

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by mirek03

30-06-2007|06:45 AM

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this may seem a little stupid, i cant make an avi

This may seem very stupid to you guys but i cant seem to make an avi, i went into render globles and set the file name as "gametest" set the next...

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by carrot juice

11-12-2003|01:36 AM

Replies: 13

Hide reflections from specific objects?!

Hello, I have a bottle standing on a reflective plane. I have several objects only visible in reflections that I want to be visible in the bottles...

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by Darkon

10-09-2002|09:11 PM

Replies: 13

Lights on...Light off

Can someone tell me how to animate a light turning on and off?? seems stupid i know, but all ive learned is how to 'key' motion not how to key...

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by BabyDuck

03-12-2002|12:44 AM

Replies: 13

Poll: Favourite Renderer?

:argue: <B>Whats your favourite renderer? </b> What renderer do you use, and why that? Which do you think is the best? Renderman, Mental...

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by pitbull

20-12-2002|10:43 PM

Replies: 13

There you go!

Your wish Is my command!

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by Jim

10-02-2003|04:49 AM

Replies: 13

MR rendering

Hey guys, i know that's not a big deal, but coment plz!

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by subnurbs

13-02-2003|08:55 AM

Replies: 13

How do you achieve this effect?

Im curious as to how you achieve this realistic looking relfection, all i can get is a hot white spot? http://www.hinst.net/~phalcon/how.jpg ...

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by ragecgi

19-05-2003|09:05 PM

Replies: 13

Rendering Scene Animation - Size?

Hello! I am planning to render a 200 frames long scene of my Stargate and wanted the video to be in a high resolution (1024*768)... See...

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by carrot juice

04-09-2003|02:04 AM

Replies: 13

use background shader and MR?

is there a way to get the use background shader to work with mental ray? thanks in advance

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by justin

31-10-2003|03:04 AM

Replies: 13

custom shader

I was messing with shaders earlier. I connected the facing ratio attribute of a samplerInfo node to the reflectivity of a blinn shader. Now I want to...

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by mtmckinley

10-11-2003|04:58 AM

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empty surface?

hi, I was just trying to render a frame, with bump map, raytracing, and motion blur. it comes out fine, except there's no motion blur, and it gives...

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by PilotLtKettch

07-09-2004|12:27 AM

Replies: 13

create your own normal maps

A good buddy and co-worker of mine has posted a tutorial on how you can create your own normal maps from real objects. All ya need is a digital...

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by DgAPc

13-12-2004|07:37 AM

Replies: 13

Render Problem with my model - HELP!

Hi Guys, I've made a transparent skin for my balsa wood fin, but the skin isn't rendering properly. ...

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by MattTheMan

30-12-2005|01:26 AM

Replies: 13

Lights and Material Question

I'm trying to mode my lamp and I have a problem with the light: This is how it looks when it's off-...

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by BennyK

15-07-2008|10:03 PM

Replies: 13

Mental Ray Render Passes

I'm trying to render out multiple lighting passes to composite my image, and I'm really struggling to figure out how to do it. Basically I want...

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by qsjcraig

07-05-2010|04:22 PM

Replies: 13

Error in render

Hi everyone, im trying to render a maya file but each time i hit render it renders a few frames and stops when i check on the renderlog i get this ...

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by Edmondtr

25-07-2014|11:01 AM

Replies: 13

Glass Refractions

This may be very basic as I don't know much about raytracing, its a fairly new topic for me. But I've started texturing/lighting a scene this evening...

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