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 24-05-2008 , 03:10 AM
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Blinking lights?

How to make blinking small button shaped lights?

# 2 24-05-2008 , 03:35 AM
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make the lights, apply a shader, and animate the shader.


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# 3 24-05-2008 , 09:55 AM
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key the intensity of the light


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# 4 24-05-2008 , 10:46 AM
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You can either apply a runtime expression to the lights intensity so you don't have to key the intensity, or,

apply a couple of keyframes to the intensity and in the graph editor go to 'curves' > 'post infinity' > 'cycle'.

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Thanks a lot guys for replying.

What type of light should i use?

# 6 24-05-2008 , 07:57 PM
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That all depends on the size and type of button, if your talking about little LED's then I would probably set keyframes on the material's glow intensity rather than using lights, however if its somthing a little larger you can probably use either point, spot or small volume lights.

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Thanks for the reply. Now it perfectly makes sense.:attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn:

# 8 30-12-2008 , 01:39 PM
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Question,

I tried to keyframe the intensity of the light and it wasn't working. Any thoughts on why? Is here anything special I need to do to keyframe non-movement attributes of objects/lights/etc?

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# 9 30-12-2008 , 02:21 PM
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Not really sure what the issue is with your keying as it is a fairly simple item to key.

Just choose an intensity, right click, set key, go forward in the timeslider, choose a different intensity, right click, set key. Etc..

Hope you get it working,

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# 10 30-12-2008 , 09:22 PM
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That worked. Right clicking on the intensity and doing the set key worked. I didn't realize I had to right click and set the key that way. Worked like a charm.

Thanks!!!!!!

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