all sorted cheers for advice... ended up being the fact that i had shadow detail turned on... don't know why this would make any difference, but it seemed to

:beer:

they're created using a shadow map within the mental ray tab

thanks,

f/

another problem which i am faced with is the shadows not matching the position of objects flush to the floor. Please see image.

(problem areas ringed in red)

HAve tried a few things but none...

NOW THIS MESSAGE IS APPEARING


// Warning: Cannot add the following items to the set since the set has restrictions on membership: camera1_aimShape //
// Result: lambert69SG //



help...

For some reason maya is falling over when rendering, I am using mental ray and global illumination.

The error that is logged in the script editopr is as follows:

- - - - - - - - -

// Error:...

sorted it out but thanks anyway, didn't realise u could do it in the hypergraph as well though :D

i've been trying to make a decent glass material for the windows on the appachie but can't get any to look right. Any ideas would be a great help (snap shot of a render network would be even better...

I can't remember which turorial it was in the apachie texturing series, where you showed how to load the custom uv mapping tool into the custom shelf.

Please can you tell me which one it was,
...

very basic question:

if you've two different projection maps on the same piece of geometry and u need to delete one of them without deleting the geometry... how do u do it? In the atribute editor?...

knew it had to be something really simple that i was doing wrong - the only light i had in the scene was an ambient light, which gives no shadows!!!

:D :D :D :D

Cheers for all you advice and...