Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
# 1 30-08-2013 , 04:12 PM
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Mirror Geometry -> MERGE FAIL!

I'm having a problem where I want to Mirror geometry and have them merged.
The end result that I don't want is that the smoothing looks horrible on it after the Mirror Geometry.
Hopefully you can help me

Here are my steps:

1) Mirror geometry
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2) After Mirroring geometry and viewing the smoothed version, here is where it goes wrong it doesn't merge?
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3) So I went to do it myself and merged them but...
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4) But it looks horrible when done some Insert edge loops...
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Thanks for the user added image

# 2 30-08-2013 , 05:17 PM
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Before you mirror delete the faces at the end of the 6 cross sections. The mirror duplicates those faces as well. If you find that mirror inadvertantly merges the vertices on each cross section into 1 or 2, then in the channel editor you can select polyMirror* entry and reduce the merge threshhold.


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# 3 30-08-2013 , 09:36 PM
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Yep, these faces need to go.

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# 4 03-09-2013 , 05:17 PM
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Thanks for the help user added image
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