Can someone help me here? I'm trying to get a tricky (well, I think it's tricky anyway) variant of the double sided shader happening.

Heck, I don't even know if it's possible!

The concept is...

That was it! Thanks Mike!

I've purchased a very detailed polygonal model of a human skeleton online recently (www.3dcadbrowser), and when applying a material with a texture attached (a simple lambert with a jpg file texture...

Yep. 2D motion blur was the culprit. So obvious, eh?

I call that a bug.

Just discovered something this morning about the problem. I've been using 2D motion blur during the sequence. When the blur is on, the light turns off for those 15 frames (it turns off twice, both...

This problem has me stupified.

I have a camera and it's aiming target both on motion path curves.

I also have a spotlight with volume lighting on.

During the travel of the camera and it's...

Thanks kbrown! But...
That would work if the stream of light was facing the normal of the panes of glass, but the light unfortunately has to be at an angle... So this would cause either...

A tricky scenario here. If somebody knows a solution or a workaround, it would definitely make my week!

Scene: Night, inside a dusty old room with panes of dusty/dirty & broken glass in the...

Hi everybody...

I've been intensely learning Maya 5 over the past few weeks and I'm ready to start asking other people for help, since the books I've read and tutorials I've found aren't helping...