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# 1 07-10-2006 , 08:54 AM

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why is every creation i make in maya so pixelated??
ex:
user added image

i know lousy example but i just made something simple which gets very pixelated...
thanks

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# 2 07-10-2006 , 02:33 PM

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do u mean spike wen u extrude faces or the quality of the pic

1 if its wen extrude u go to poly tools option and turn on keep faces together

2 if its the quality its because thats a preview u need to render with AA on to get the edges smooth

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# 3 07-10-2006 , 04:14 PM

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AA??
whats that?

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# 4 07-10-2006 , 04:24 PM

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AA = Anti Aliasing
stops the edges being jaggered - smooths the off
the higher the value the better it will look

Now at SMU doing BSc 3D Computer Animation so its hard to get on here
My wire render tut https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20973

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# 5 07-10-2006 , 04:26 PM

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can you please tell me how to render my images with anti aliasing??
it would be nice if u did this

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# 6 07-10-2006 , 04:31 PM

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there 3 buttons for rendering yes??

ok - hover ur mouse over them each one is IPR the other is render this frame and the other is render globals/settings
click the settings 1 (its the check board with 2 circles next to it)
now a new window pops up
in that window click the second tab there should be an option for AA quality set it to ur likings

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# 7 07-10-2006 , 05:32 PM

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is it the 3 to the right here you mean??
user added image

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# 8 07-10-2006 , 05:57 PM

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yes those r correct also these 1 r more commonly used

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# 9 07-10-2006 , 06:15 PM

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which one of those buttons shall i choose??

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# 10 07-10-2006 , 08:50 PM

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check out this nice free tutorial. it should tell you everything you need to know.

https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...html?tut_id=49

or

https://www.digitaltutors.com/digital....php?v=100&f=q

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# 11 07-10-2006 , 08:54 PM

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Unfortunately there's no "single" way to turn on Antialiasing for renders.

Do you run Mental Ray, Maya Software, Maya hardware, or a third party renderer?

Note: If you didn't touch the button to RIGHT of the "IPR" button, then chances are you're on Maya Software.

Click on the button to the RIGHT of IPR -- that's "render globals" IE: Options for Rendering.

On the popup, click the tab marked "Maya Software".

Near the top there'll be a menu -- "AntiAliasing Quality" on "Edge Antialiasing" dropdown menu click "Highest Quality" Under "number of samples" set that higher too (8-16 is uber quality, can go up to 32 though that tends to BLUR things, not just antialias... 4 is decent for quality + speed of render).

Multipixel filtering will also help you a bit... but forget it generally... too complicated.

To start out in your adventures for Antialiasing --> Just click the dropdown menu to highest quality... leave everything else alone... it should work nicely.

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