Kinda Urgent: Rendering Vertex Lighting in Maya 6

Steve Schulze · Jan 2006

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

pyromania · Jan 2006

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

Steve Schulze · Jan 2006

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

malcolm · Jan 2006

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

Steve Schulze · Jan 2006

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

Mister Sentient · Jan 2006

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

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