Kinda Urgent: Rendering Vertex Lighting in Maya 6

Steve Schulze

Is there any way this can be done, or failing that is there a feasible workaround?

pyromania

Use the Hardware renderer. If the vertex color is displaying in the viewport, the hardware renderer will render it.

Steve Schulze

Hardware renderer doesn't do alpha sorting properly and I've got mountains of alpha maps in my scene.

malcolm

There is a really sketchy shader that only seems to half work for mentalray. You can google vertex shader mentalray.

Steve Schulze

That sounds very handy, but I can't find it in google. Do you know what it was called?

Mister Sentient

Edit: Oops sorry I just realised you wanted something for Maya 6 not Max 6 :P.

Here is a Max script to enable rendering of vertex colours...

http://www.jonseagull.com/downloads.shtml#toggleVCs