Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 1 16-01-2015 , 11:08 PM
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Rendering a model with lights shining on it

Hi, I'm new to this site and this seemed the most relevant thread.

I have a helicopter I'm rendering with MentalRay and it has a few lights shining on it.
It's a 10 second sequence. My aim is to bring it into After Effects as a .psd layered image.
The problem I was having was the image layers were all showing up completely black (except for BeautyPass).

I realised that my lights weren't being rendered, possibly because they aren't keyed or parented to the camera?

Thanks! user added image

# 2 31-03-2015 , 09:44 PM
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Hi friend, I was wondering if you find a solution to your problem as I am having the same problem.

# 3 07-04-2015 , 01:56 PM
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Hi, sorry for the late reply.

Well the way I was doing it, it involved a lot of Ambient Lights which doesn't work when rendering with Mental Ray, so as far as I could tell that was my issue.
So I used Area Lights instead.

If you're rendering with MentalRay this could be the problem, I hope user added image

There's a page I found which is part of the Maya FAQs on their site but can't seem to find it now.

Somewhere in here I think....
https://download.autodesk.com/global/...Id=BULLETNODES

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