starfield in maya
hello,
I am trying to render a space scene in maya for my animation course.
I have the ship, a few planets and an asteroid and 4 camera angles.
What I cant seem to wrap my head around is lighting the scene and adding the stars.
How do I add a starfield in Maya 2014 and a sun with a lens flare? thanks!
I am trying to render a space scene in maya for my animation course.
I have the ship, a few planets and an asteroid and 4 camera angles.
What I cant seem to wrap my head around is lighting the scene and adding the stars.
How do I add a starfield in Maya 2014 and a sun with a lens flare? thanks!
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http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/index.html?url=files/Create__Lights__Directional_Light.htm,topicNumber=d28e567245
If the backsides are too dark, for example if there are nebulae or other light sources nearby, then duplicate the sun and rotate it 180 degrees and change it to a much lower intensity. A different color would be nice too.
For the glowy sun ball, use an Optical FX utility on the light.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/index.html?url=files/Lighting_nodes_Optical_FX_Attributes.htm,topicNumber=d28e572443
For the star field, make a sphere, invert it, and put a stars texture on it.
Here's an example, made in 3ds Max, same basic techniques though.
http://ericchadwick.com/img/robot_rising.html#cubemapbackdrop
When I created a sphere and inverted it and placed a texture, you cant see half of the stars because of the directional light...
https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&q=tutorial+starfield&oq=tutorial+starfield
Use incandescence to make the sphere fully bright.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/files/Shading_Nodes_Common_surface_material_attributes.htm
They arent working. Im getting the same results from multiple tutorials. The directional light is hiding half of my stars.
You could instead use particles for the stars.
Can you please explain how particles are used to do this?
http://thefulldomeblog.com/2013/07/03/creating-a-star-field/
I actually did that one. It doesnt work with my scene because I have a space ship flying and a directional light.
Which school are you attending?
However when I render using mental ray:
1. Either the stars are the same dim grey or white color, and dont vary in size.
2. Or it just renders a blank blue screen.
Here is the space scene file:
http://www.filedropper.com/scifi18
And here is the starfield file:
http://www.filedropper.com/starfieldtemplate
Also, that same site has this for download, might work better:
http://thefulldomeblog.com/2013/11/13/background-stars-v2/