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# 15 08-02-2011 , 11:59 AM
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well im no expert on render settings, but each have there own advantages, i personally think mental ray is better quality, there are many more settings to choose and tweak, and mental ray materials and lights and shadows do look very nice, but if its a basic animation and you have the default textues and all, then a software render will look absolutly fine.

the thing is, rendering out as an .avi is fine, i not sure if there is any quality difference between that and an image based render, but if Maya crashes during the render with a movie file render you will lose it, but with an image based render you can just start it from the frame it crashed on.


the more I Think I know about Maya the less I seem to know about it.

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