Still playing around with different things. Working on a scene to include the guitar in....but still have been working with some bonus tools to get the desired string effects. Will post an update...

herr_klaus

Just curious.....did you reverse normals on your dome?

Yeah.....I'm finding limited time to work on the guitar. I will be trying some of the suggestions in the other posts over the weekend. I will be happy pass along any tips or tricks I have learned...

I created these strings by creating a curve in the shape of the string that I wanted and then extruded along the curve....it looks beautiful in my perspective viewport but when I render it is...

http://forums.simplymaya.com/images/guitar_final_02.jpg

Here is a picture of the guitar 80% finished...texturing work to do and the darn strings I can't figure out yet. Lots of smoothing to do as...

I created strings for my acoustic guitar by creating a curve and a nurbs circle and then extruded the circle along the curve. The curve twists several times around the tuning keys in my viewport...

Cracker.....you just need to download a silver or chrome shader and assign it to your metal parts...or create your own shader. Try a phong shader....turn the ambient color up and the cosine way...

I see this thread is old, but hoping someone may have a solution by now. I am also using windows XP and have never had a problem monitoring batch render progress on the script editor...but today,...

Just in case any more newbies like my self run into the same problem, I figured it out. The same corruption happended today. I discovered that the light in my scene was checked for dmap...

I am inspired!