Rending in maya with no lighting

JimmyMarshall

Anyone know how to do a render in maya using no lighting? I want the effect you get when you go to 'Lighting' and select 'Use no lights' in the project window, where it just shows your textures totally exposed without lights.

If anyone knows how to render with vertex colours showing as well that would be appreciated; though I can probably puzzle that one out myself somehow.

Essentially I'm trying to get nice renders of my vertex lit/unlighted environments from the game I'm working on

Illusions

Do you mean in viewport or rendered out? If you mean just regular rendered out, go into render settings and towards the bottom you should see a check box for "Enable Default Light", uncheck it, and make sure all the other lights in your scene are hidden.

bonzaj

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picoMayaPlugin

Check the texturing tutorial to get what you want.

JimmyMarshall

Hey Illusions, if you do that though it just renders everything as totally black, because my scene has no lights at all. I want it to LOOK like it looks in the viewport, when lights are switched off.

rooster

stick in an ambient light on 1, with the ambient shade on 0

malcolm

Turn off all the lighting in your scene, select whatever shaders you want to show up as full bright with no lighting in your render and set the ambient colour to white.

JimmyMarshall

Ahh of course the ambient colour! Thanks for the help, that did it.

So simple, now I feel dumb.

agitat3d

Create a new render layer and choose the "diffuse" preset from the attribute editor.

This will render without lighting information

kinshuk

ya diffuse pass would definitely do it or may be u can go to light and deselecl emit specular and illuminate bny defaul and u would get a similar effect