Hi, So, i've experimented a bit with max's SDK and was able to figure out the tangent calculation used by max when scanline rendering. I work with three.js to render the models in the browser and have the javascript code to do the proper normal map decoding on the client side. Ie. one only needs to load the vertices, uvs…
Hello beautiful people of poly count, I am a noob and new to this so I aplogise if this question sounds a bit stupid but I am trying to render for the first time and do not understand why I am getting different results when using mentalray. The rendered image when running inside the maya program looks nice and bright and…
I am having a tough time trying to create lens flare for my lights in Maya.Whenever I render with Mental ray,the lens flare doesn't show but shows in Maya software renderer.Also I tried using shadow Glow on my bulb polygonal mesh to get it to glow so I can use lens flare,but Maya crashes. Is there a way to create scatter…
Hi! First of all this my first thread... be gentle! I've been working in zbrush for a while now. I'm still learning... I got an offer to go to an interview (nothing major) and ended up never going because I didn't have a proper portfolio. I didn't had nothing finished actually, so I would have just wasted their time with…
Hey guys, this is basically a render we had to do in college using only Maya Software. I'm still in the first year of my 3D animation course (been using Maya for like 4 months so far lol) so we're not learning Mental Ray and all that just yet (since the fundamentals come first I guess, idk). But yeah, this is what I came…
Plop plop! I would to know if someone has a good reference or quick explanation about rendering an environment map in Maya... I checked the Polycount-Wiki in the cube map section but there is no line about it :( - http://wiki.polycount.com/CubeMap?action=show&redirect=Cube+Map The Maya documentation doesn't have a chapter…
I am working on a landscape scene with has some foliage and some other props on it. When I'm making a bake with lightmass it takes arround 15 min (preview mode), but in production mode... after 3 hours it still wasn't finished. I'm wondering how I could speed things up... My question can you also bake like a specified area…
Hello, I'm having this issue where when I press render in Arnold, the view is completely black, not sure how to fix. Googling and youtube videos are out of date and no help! I am using Maya 2023