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 22-10-2006 , 08:50 AM
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convert poly to subdiv

Hey im having a great deal of problem converting poly to subdiv, in my scene i have bout 8 objects all of them polys. All 7 converts fine but the one i actuly want to convert nothing seems to happen when i click to convert. it has about 60 faces any help would be great user added image

# 2 14-05-2007 , 09:22 PM
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Look at the help bar after you try to change to subds. It usually tells you what to do. You probably need to do
Polygons ->Cleanup and select the nonmanifold geometry option. Also, make sure that the geometry is kept to 4-sided polys, as subds can really mess up odd-sided polys.


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