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hughmanshield · 16-01-2015, 11:08 PM

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!

goyoelpollo · 31-03-2015, 09:44 PM

Hi friend, I was wondering if you find a solution to your problem as I am having the same problem.

hughmanshield · 07-04-2015, 01:56 PM

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

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....
http://download.autodesk.com/global/...Id=BULLETNODES

16-01-2015, 11:08 PM	#1
hughmanshield Registered User Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 3	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!
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31-03-2015, 09:44 PM	#2
goyoelpollo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 5	Hi friend, I was wondering if you find a solution to your problem as I am having the same problem.
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07-04-2015, 01:56 PM	#3
hughmanshield Registered User Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 3	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 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.... http://download.autodesk.com/global/...Id=BULLETNODES
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