dog tutorial - mental ray rendering - Simply Maya User Community

# 1 18-08-2004 , 06:18 PM

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dog tutorial - mental ray rendering

hello for all.. im new here.. and i was trying to do the dog tutorial.. ok, i have finished it, but i want to render it with final gather.. but i dont know why .. mu sub-d surfaces doesnt apears on the render.. only if i change it to NURBS... and it becomes very heavy.. user added image

.. this message apears whule rendering:

// Error: (Mayatomr.Geometry) : polyToSubdShape1, non-quadrilateral face in subdivision surface base mesh not supported, ignored //
// Error: (Mayatomr.Geometry) : polyToSubdShape2, non-quadrilateral face in subdivision surface base mesh not supported, ignored //
// Error: (Mayatomr.Geometry) : polyToSubdShape3, non-quadrilateral face in subdivision surface base mesh not supported, ignored //

Trying to render with Turtle, the body and other things, appears..
but i dont know how to use Turtle correctly yet..
can someone help me?

other thing.. i want to animate this dog.. but i cand find a tutorial for it.. user added image

i want to animate the face of the dog.. how to do? blendshapes?

tnks for al..
sorry for my very poor english..

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# 2 20-08-2004 , 01:34 AM

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Mental Ray will only render sub-Ds whose base mesh is all quads. Thats what the error message you're getting is all about. If you get rid of any tris and any 5 sided (or more) polygons it will render just fine.

Dave

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# 3 06-09-2004 , 07:15 AM

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hi there .. it seems i had the same problem .. user added image

here is the solution ..select your subD surface go to:
modeling==>edit sub-D surfaces-collaps hirarachy

then you will be able to render it with mental ray user added image

wish you all the best bro ..
remeber to stay away from n-gons or more than four sided ploygons while modeling

Mr_Flamenco™( the Man Who Summoned By Mankind)

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