I am having difficulty creating light in maya using Arnold. Should be a simple thing but for some reason my render is pitch black even with skydome in. Weird part is outside the skydome, which is the container box of my scene shown above is properly displayed in the Arnold renderer. Any ideas how to fix this problem? Also…
Hey everyone, I've been learning how to render in Arnold but I can't seem to find a good tutorial that talks about making procedural crevice or dirt texture (e.g. concave surfaces get a different colour than convex). I have found this: https://vimeo.com/134311814 - but I don't think it really covers what I'm asking. Is…
I know it's not realtime, but maybe someone has this info here. I can't find it elsewhere and the folks at the Autodesk forum aren't much help. I'm wondering what R/G channel directions Arnold expects by default for normal maps. It comes with two check marks in the node flipping whatever it's expecting to come in by…
hey folks right now I try to render a simple sphere in Arnold with a displacement map, it kinda works, it looks like that: zbrush: Maya: Maya closeup (this is where the error is visible): it looks very weird and i dont know what i did wrong here: i exported the mesh from subdivision-level 2, and the displ.map was generated…
I'm new using Arnold and still learning how to use it. Everytime im doing a single render image on the oil drum I get an issue where the normal does not look good, it seems inverted like 3 and sharp shadows or reflection 1, 2. In the viewport 4 it looks fine but not when rendering. Im using aistandard surface shader, in…
I render my images with nothing in the background so I can put whatever I want afterwards in photoshop. I use depth of field so my model gets blurred. This blue background in the arnold renderview is just a color I choose in the arnold renderview settings. I put the same color in photoshop and this dark outline appears. I…
Does anyone know how to fix Arnold rendering Error Gpu: Insufficient device memory? Everything used to work fine for me, and now all of a sudden, doing nothing different, Arnold doesn't allow me to render with GPU. Only with CPU.
Can you get the same results with GPU rendering as CPU? I know there are some limitations for GPU renders. But if you compare the results of Corona/Vray/Arnold CPU renderers with Arnold/Vray GPU versions do they result in loss of quality compared to CPU? And why would you choose CPU over GPU renders, except maybe for very…
Hello, I'm following a tutorial in which he uses Arnold in Softimage and plugs the secondary specular map he created in "Secondary Reflection" input. (Image below) Where do i plug this map in Arnold for Maya, is this the "Coat" input? Btw this secondary specular map is made for a skin shader. He has created Specular map,…
Hi guys, I've been trying to do this right a whole week now!! it's just a sculpted brick! nothing more! and I wanted to import that to Maya/Arnold with Vector Displacement, that's all, why is it so difficult to do this? I tried/read all the available things, from Youtube to SolidAngle website and none of them works for me.…