Maya - perfect plane render

DiederikV · Apr 2015

I made a couple of animations in maya using the materials and stuff and I'd like to make a sprite sheet out of them so that I can put them in Unity.

Here you have an example of an older effect I was working on(Download required):
http://diederikv.com/Test_01.avi

Now what I am trying to do is put it on a plane an render it out but I can't seem to find a way to align the camera perfectly with the plane so that I have no spare space or dont clip anything off.

Is there a good way to do this?

kodde · Apr 2015

Use an orthographic camera and set the Orthographic Width to the same size as your plane. Should match perfectly. It's set on the cameras Shape node.

DiederikV · Apr 2015

kodde wrote: »

Use an orthographic camera and set the Orthographic Width to the same size as your plane. Should match perfectly. It's set on the cameras Shape node.

Thanks, now I feel stupid. ^^

DiederikV · Apr 2015

Alright, so I did that but I still seem to get a seem in my textures even though it loops perfectly in Maya, any thoughts on this?

Not sure if it is all that visible in the last image.

kodde · Apr 2015

I'm guessing the texture sampling at the very edge of the plane is getting influences from the very other side of the texture. Probably due to texture's WrapS/WrapT in the engine. Try setting the texture WrapS/WrapT (or whatever they are called in Unity) to Clamp and not Wrap which is probably default. Might be called something like wrapmode the setting you want to find.

Maya - perfect plane render

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