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Max 2010 - mental ray - how do i enable shadow?
im trying to get some outdoors shadows on my renders, i use mental ray GI and have skylight how do i make stuff cast shadow? -
Ray Tracing glowing glass (all transpareent materials) problem
Hello. I use Transmission - Reefracrion for my glass material, and it works fine in usual render (screen 1), but in ray tracing mode it's always glowing and unlit (screen 2). Possible ways to fix that? https://prnt.sc/13n585u https://prnt.sc/13n59ek -
Maya - Trouble with Mental Ray and texture alpha
Hey guys So I'm trying to make fur via a texture with an alpha and render with mental ray. However, I keep getting a filled in color where the alpha should be. The color of the fill appears to be based on the color of the background object, so I'm guessing it's a photon or reflection issue but I'm not entirely sure how to… -
Maya Mental Ray Mia_exposure_photographic not working with portal light
Hello I have a 3d scene I'm working in Maya 2015 using Mental ray, I changed the simple lens to a mia_exposure_photographic lens. Then in the physical sky attribute I changed the RGB unit conversion to .318 on all three inputs. The problem is when I render a scene only the physical sun and sky render, but my area and point… -
Mental Ray lightingmap baking - black render (3dsmax)
Hello, I'm having an issue with baking a lighting map with mental ray. It worked just fine earlier on an another machine, it gave perfect bakes. But now I'm working from an another pc, and I can't bake a lighting map with that. It spits out black textures with a very small, bit brighter spot on the center of the map. I… -
Can you bake a mental ray shader to a texture?
Can you bake a mental ray shader to a texture? Basically I want to create a really fancy MR shader, then throw some ambient GI lighting in and bake out texture map from this to use as a diffuse pass on some low poly stuff... Anyone know of a tut, or how to do something like this? I'll take an answer in either maya or max... -
[Mudbox 2011] x-ray/see through mode?
Hey guys! I'm kind of new to mudbox and was wondering if there's a mode like in 3D Studio Max where you can make a mesh transparent/see-through/x-ray mode whatever you want to call it. I tried searching but couldn't find anything on it. I feel like the answer is going to be something really obvious but I really can't find… -
Maya Mental Ray Material trouble
Hi, I just modeled and textured a sword and i'm having a difficult time trying to make the materials and render look convincing. I've assembled a set and lighting using Maya 2016 and Mental Ray. My sword consists of Metal, Brass, and Leather materials that I can't make to look the way they should. I'ved tried playing with… -
Mental Ray Plugin rendering problems
So, just recently, a scene that's been rendering just fine in Maya's Mental Ray plugin, will no longer render. It will only show up as a wire frame snapshot whether I push the render button, the IPR Render or anything else. I tried to make another camera and shoot through that in the hopes that it was some glitch with the… -
New PC, best CPU for V-Ray?
Hello, im planning to buy a new pc, which i will use besides other to render via V-Ray (2 or 3) via 3Ds max. And im looking to some cpu test using vray as renderer, are there any such test? I mean specifically testing different cpus on Vray renderer and showing the differences? Are there any, i was not able to find any via…
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