hi,
Im currently renderin a simple view of a building in day- and night time.
At night I want some windows to be lightend. I first tried wit an area light behind it but got black , after some...

ah... that is easy. I will check the newbie forum from a to z before asking something silly again.

thanks

hi,
I want to animate how a camera zooms in to a detail, ( so, i want to change te focal length (from 28 to 400 +) and move the cam. The moving part is ofcourse easy to keyframe, but I can't get...

I think I found a solution by using a planar map it works almost ok.

so sory for my premature response on the board, i schould have first try to experiment more.

edit: but other solutions would...

hi, my second question already.

I modeld a simple facade, made holes with booleans->difference and then started to drag some lines to get some angeld face's in the window.

Bt by doing this I...

thanks neostrider, for the info. the good thing about maya is that every problem has a lot of solutions

a bumb map is something different than a displacment map

here is the attachment:

hello guys and girsls I'm new here And I first want to say, that I am glade that there is a maya forum with lots of response.
I am not sure if this is the right section for it.

I want to make 60...