I was able to get an AO pass by Exporting the mesh and camera rig to an .ma file, and rendering it out in that scene. Still, it would be nice to understand what was causing that strange AO render......

Hey folks. Hopefully the hive mind can help me figure out what's happened to my scene...

So I'm trying to create an Ambient Occlusion render pass for a big, funnel/whirlpool shaped smooth mesh and...

Appreciate the reply, DaveRave. I looked through it and gave the custom script a try, but it didn't help my situation.

I'm still not sure why it happened, but as is typical with Maya,...

I don't know why this is suddenly happening...

I've been hardware batch rendering a cloud of sprite particles that are given random RGB values via RBP PP attributes. I've been working on this for...

Thanks, Jay! That's useful information. I will apply it to my project and see what happens.

Thank you for the response, daverave. You have been helpful to me on other occasions :)

Regarding your suggestion, I don't see how that would help my problem. I'm not struggling with the best UV...

Thanks for the reply, David. I'm already using an approximation node on this, which helps with render times, but not with the problem I am having...unless I'm not using it to it's fullest potential....

Hi folks! I've been lucky enough to get answers from this forum in the past, hopefully someone can help me with this one...

I have a setup for a tunnel animation using a cone and an animated...

Hi folks. I have a question regarding texturing, I think.

Basically, I have a camera that's flying through a corkscrew tunnel, and near the end I want the walls to show a fractal pattern that...

@stwert:

I took your advice and found a pretty good suggestion here: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?108135-Change-texture-based-on-angle

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